Practice Nurse

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Colchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary based on experience

Supportive and friendly environment

Peer support

CPD support with training and developm

Job summary

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice in Colchester is seeking an experienced practice nurse. The role is full‑time or part‑time with negotiable hours, offering a supportive team and opportunities for professional development.

You will conduct health assessments, manage long‑term conditions and lead vaccination programmes while maintaining high standards of patient care and safety.

Qualifications

• NMC registered with an active PIN.
• Nursing degree or equivalent qualification.
• Experience running clinics for asthma, COPD and diabetes.
• Competence in phlebotomy, ECG, vaccination and wound care.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking health assessments and treatments; conducting diagnostic tests.
• Managing and reviewing long‑term conditions per guidelines.
• Administering medications and supporting adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Providing health promotion and person‑centred care planning.
• Delivering immunisations and cervical cytology where appropriate.
• Managing wound care and minor procedures as needed.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes reviews and new patient checks.

Skills

NMC registered

Nursing degree

General practice experience

Clinical assessment & phlebotomy

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent

Tools

SystmOne

Anima

Accurx

Job description

About the Role

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on either a full-time or part-time basis, with hours and days negotiable.

Main responsibilities of the role include:

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients’ health and social care needs are met.
• General health and well‑being promotion as well as creating individual, person‑centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
• Managing and treating long‑term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence‑based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
• Hypertension review and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
• New patient and health checks.

About the Candidate

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Ideally having completed the CNO002 Discovering a Nursing Career in General Practice module or the Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme),however we would still be interested in those applicants with equivalent experience or qualifications.
• 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 its application, in supporting long‑term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.
• Immunisations - up to date.
  

About Us

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a busy general practice based across two sites (Ambrose Avenue and Tollgate) in Colchester. We are a large, dynamic team offering a stimulating and welcoming environment, caring for over 14,000 patients. We have 4 GP partners, 2 salaried GPs, 1 ANP, 2 nurse practitioners (soon to be ANPs), 1 diabetic nurse, 2 practice nurses, 2 HCAs, 1 H&W Coach, 1 GP assistant, 1 phlebotomist, 1 clinical pharmacist, 2 pharmacy technicians, and a wonderful team of administration staff. We use clinical systems such as SystmOne, Anima and Accurx and we are committed to training and developing both clinical and non‑clinical teams.

We offer a competitive salary with appropriately agreed annual leave, according to length of service, plus bank holidays. Our ethos is to achieve and outstanding work‑life balance while offering our patients the best possible service. Supporting your work‑life balance and professional development is essential to us, so we will be happy to discuss and requirements for flexible working and offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Supportive and friendly environment
• Peer support
• CPD support with training and development.

Come and work with us and make a difference to patient care at Ambrose!

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.