Practice Nurse

Primary Care Careers; Essex; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A primary care practice in England is seeking an experienced practice nurse for a part-time role of 24 hours per week. Responsibilities include conducting health assessments, managing long-term conditions, and supporting patient care initiatives. The ideal candidate will have current NMC registration, clinical skills in treatment room settings, and a compassionate approach to patient care. This role offers a supportive environment and various benefits, including access to the NHS pension scheme and annual leave.

Benefits

Access to NHS pension scheme

Free parking

Extra day off for birthday

Annual leave of 6 weeks

Staff refreshments and annual events

Qualifications

• Competence in asthma and diabetic clinics and reviews.
• Experience in treatment room consultations and vaccinations.
• Knowledge of supporting long-term conditions.

Responsibilities

• Undertake health assessments and administer medication.
• Evaluate health interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Support chronic disease management with regular reviews.

Skills

Asthma management

Diabetes management

Phlebotomy

ECG recording

Cervical cytology sampling

Compassion

Education

Current NMC registration with an active PIN

Job description

Thaxted Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis for 24 hours a week. Exact days are negotiable and dependent on the right candidate but will include a 6.00pm finish on a Thursday afternoon.

As a key member of our practice you will be able to treat patients in your own clinic along with the support of our team of GPs, ANP and ACP practice nurses, health care assistants, and dispensary and administration teams.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Supporting chronic disease management by performing regular reviews (e.g. diabetes and asthma) as directed by the GP.
• 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.

Qualifications & Experience

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Competence to undertake asthma and diabetic clinics and reviews.
• 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.
• 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

Thaxted Surgery is an EMIS Web dispensing practice in a historic market town. We work out of our own purpose‑built modern premises and have a supportive and friendly team of clinical and administrative staff. All staff work hard to deliver excellent patient‑focused care and services. We are very proactive not only in caring for our own practice population but also within the wider primary care network. We are a GP training practice; host medical students and are consistent high‑achievers in QOF. Thaxted Surgery has consistently performed well in the national GP surveys this year, coming top for Herts and West Essex. Our list size is 9,000 and growing every month.

Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension scheme.
• Supportive and friendly environment.
• Free parking.
• Extra day off paid for your birthday.
• Annual leave of 6 (FTE) weeks including bank holidays.
• Staff tea / coffee / biscuits and fruit.
• Annual staff day out / party - summer and Christmas.
• Training and development opportunities.

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.