Part-Time Practice Nurse — Lead Chronic Care & Vaccinations

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Leigh; Hybrid; GBP 17,000 - 34,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Supportive team

Opportunities to learn and develop

Varied role in a busy practice

Make a real difference to patient care

Job summary

Highlands Surgery is offering a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, 16–24 hours per week over 2/3 days. If you can be flexible over days/shift patterns, please indicate this.

The role includes health assessments, administration, chronic disease management, vaccinations, wound care and cervical cytology support, with a focus on patient-centred care in a high-quality, supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Current nursing degree and registration with NMC (active PIN).
• Experience in general practice or primary care nursing preferred.
• Competence to run asthma/COPD/diabetes clinics and reviews.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating health interventions to meet patients' health and social care needs.
• Promoting health and wellbeing with person-centred plans for patients with long-term conditions.
• Managing and treating long-term conditions according to policies and practice protocols.
• Reviewing medication for effectiveness and supporting adherence.
• Prioritising health problems and intervening in emergency situations.
• Supporting women’s health needs including contraception and cervical cytology.
• Implementing vaccination and immunisation programmes for adults and children.
• Wound care and opportunistic health reviews.
• Hypertension reviews and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and new patient health checks.

Skills

Nursing skills

NMC registered

Chronic disease management

Education

Nursing degree

Tools

ECG

Phlebotomy

Wound care

Job description

Highlands Surgery is offering a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, 16–24 hours per week over 2/3 days. If you can be flexible over days/shift patterns, please indicate this.

The role includes health assessments, administration, chronic disease management, vaccinations, wound care and cervical cytology support, with a focus on patient-centred care in a high-quality, supportive environment.