Nurse

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Colchester; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organisation is seeking a qualified practice nurse for a part-time role at a medical centre. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team and be responsible for a variety of clinical tasks including condition management and vaccinations, contributing to high-quality patient care. This position offers the opportunity to develop expertise in student health alongside general practice.

Benefits

Ongoing professional development support

Training support and CPD

Peer support

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration with active PIN.
• Competence in asthma, COPD, and diabetic clinics.
• Experience in treatment room consultation, vaccinations, and minor surgery assistance.

Responsibilities

• Manage conditions like diabetes and asthma.
• Perform ECGs and wound care.
• Administer immunisations and travel vaccinations.

Skills

Compassionate manner

Management of long-term conditions

Clinical skills

Education

Relevant nursing degree

Job description

About the Role

The Colte Partnership has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive qualified practice nurse to join the team based at Rowhedge and University of Essex Medical Centre. This position is offered on a part-time basis for 15 hours per week.

Working in an experienced multidisciplinary team, the practice nurse will have the ability to carry out the following:

• Specific condition management (e.g., diabetes, asthma, etc.)
• ECGs
• Wound care and dressings
• Immunisations
• Travel vaccinations
• Child immunisations
• Contraception
• Cervical cytology
• Removal of sutures/clips
• Stock management
• Infection control

Rowhedge offers a unique opportunity to develop expertise in student health alongside general practice. Rowhedge is a split-site practice with a campus-based health centre and a dispensing village practice and is a pilot site for Pride in Practice. The practice consists of an established team of 4 partners and 5 salaried GPs.

We reserve the right to retract the advert if a suitable person is found before the end date.

About the Candidate

All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills, and experience:

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Competence to undertake asthma, COPD, and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
• Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
• Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives, and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
• Knowledge and experience of supporting long-term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

About Us

The Colte Partnership was formed in June 2017, consisting of 9 local practices across Colchester and Tendring, caring for approximately 95,000 patients.

We also work as two collaborative Primary Care Networks (PCNs) which span across Colchester and Tendring:

• Riverside Medical Centre & Ardleigh Surgery
• Mersea Island Medical Practice, Tiptree Medical Centre & Rowhedge Medical Centre
• Walton Medical Centre, Colne Medical Centre & Wivenhoe Medical Centre

There is a wide socio-economic and demographic served within this area, providing an interesting and varied case mix. You will be joining an enthusiastic team of clinicians and administrators, supported with ongoing professional development (training support, CPD, and peer support). The role will contribute to the improving quality of care for our patients across the network of practices.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and a disclosure check will be required to ensure there are no previous criminal convictions.