Practice Nurse

Museum Practice; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local GP practice in London is looking for a motivated and caring Practice Nurse to provide high-quality nursing care and support chronic disease management. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of post-registration experience, including specific skills in cervical cytology and immunisation. This position offers a welcoming team environment, opportunities for professional development, and a flexible work schedule.

Benefits

Collaborative team environment

Opportunities for professional development

Regular clinical meetings

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years post registration experience.
• Minimum 2 years General Practice Nursing experience.
• Experience in implementing protocols and clinical guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality nursing care to meet practice population needs.
• Manage chronic diseases like diabetes, COPD, and hypertension.
• Conduct health checks and promote health education to patients.

Skills

Cervical cytology

Immunisation

Vaccinations

Chronic disease management

Excellent communication

Education

RGN Qualification

Current NMC registration

Certificate in General Practice Nursing

Tools

Emis Web

Job description

We are a friendly, supportive GP practice looking for a motivated and caring Practice Nurse to join our team.

The role:

• 4 sessions per week (equivalent to 2 full days).
• We are happy to be flexible and consider candidates who can work fewer than 2 full days.

What we offer:

• A welcoming, collaborative team environment.
• Opportunities for professional development.
• A varied role, covering the full range of practice nursing duties (see attached job description).
• Regular clinical meetings and support from experienced GPs

Interviews will take place on the 13th October and 17th October (afternoon). Can organise other times.

Start date - beginning of December 2025

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality nursing care to meet the needs of the practice population; which includes treatment, screening, preventative care, patient education, clinical quality systems maintenance; and the supervision of any less qualified clinical colleagues, while working in partnership with other clinical, management and administrative colleagues to meet stated practice developmental goals.

About us

Museum Practice is part of the North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group, aiming to provide the best quality care to our patients within the Camden area. The practice has an overall good CQC score and supports staff with the highest level of training.

We are situated opposite the British Museum, close to local amenities. The practice has a small friendly team with two female partner GPs and salaried GPs. The practice is a teaching practice, currently with two registrars (qualified doctors gaining general practice experience).

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities

To provide care for minor injuries, dressings, including pressure bandaging and higher level wound care, liaising directly, where appropriate with community and secondary care counter-parts, escalating to a GP as necessary.

To undertake cervical cytology sampling, immunisations as outlined by national programmes and local guidelines, working closely with the nursing, clinical and admin team to create systems to identify patients who are in need of such services and promoting the service hard to reach patients.

To provide support to GPs in the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, COPD, Asthma, Hypertension etc. by providing specifically defined clinical sessions, working closely with the GPs to manage patients overall care.

To support the annual flu campaign and other mass population vaccination programmes as needed in line with national guidance.

To act as a chaperone or similar support for other colleagues as needed.

To conduct and supervise other colleagues in anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, spirometry, urinalysis, phlebotomy, microbiology samples, peak flow and other practice-based tests as needed in the course of the care of patients. Desirable experience: ABPM and ECG

To carry out health checks in conjunction with national, local and practice initiatives, setting up and maintaining a system for identifying patients in the target group for such checks.

To provide education to patients on practice and local health services, identifying patients at risk of adverse health behaviours such as physical inactivity, smoking alcohol and other substance use referring appropriately to others if needed using protocols and standard that you help to establish.

To eventually manage and maintain chronic disease registers and work with admin staff to construct and maintain robust call and recall systems for chronic disease, cervical cytology, mammography, immunisation and other populations based health promotion and disease prevention care programmes, escalating where necessary patients who need intervention from a GP to ensure a review as appropriate, constructing and maintain care pathways where patients receive appropriate investigations and reviews by an appropriate clinician at the appropriate time interval.

To promote the health and wellbeing of patients by counselling patients on the nature of their conditions, the use of their medications, diet, exercise and other health behaviours.

To eventually establish and participate in a robust system of clinical audit in partnership with other clinical and administrative colleagues, leading in areas appropriate, such as infection control, to a nursing skill set and supporting in other areas such as medicines management.

Stay updated with the latest developments in nursing practice, attending training sessions, workshops, and conferences to enhance professional knowledge and skills.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RGN Qualification Current NMC registration Certificate in General Practice Nursing Cervical Screening Taker Childhood Imms
• Minimum 3 years post registration experience Minimum 2 years General Practice Nursing experience Clinical skills including cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccinations
• Experience in implementing protocols and clinical guidelines Experience of nurse-led management of long-term conditions
• Please refer to Person Specification.
• Accredited training in chronic disease management
• Working with Emis Web Leadership skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.