Practice Nurse

Benfleet PCN; 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

About the Role

Highlands Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurseto join our team on a part-time basis, for between 16 and 24 hours per week over 2/3 days. (If you are able to be flexible over days/shift patterns, you should state this).

The 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.

Please see job description attached for further details.

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.
• 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).or equivalent experience or qualifications preferable but for right candidate we would support this through their training;
• 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, 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.

About Us

Highlands Surgery is a well-established, forward-thinking practice committed to delivering high-quality patient care within a supportive and collaborative environment. We are proud to be rated Outstanding by the CQC.

Our team includes 3 GP partners, 3 salaried GPs,3 nurses, an in-house pharmacist, 2 HCAs and a large administrative team. We are also a GP training practice with up to 4 GP registrars at any time, creating a positive learning environment.

We work closely with our Primary Care Network (PCN), supporting patients through a wider multidisciplinary team.

Why Join Us?

• Supportive and friendly team
• Opportunities to learn and develop
• A varied role within a busy practice
• A chance to make a real difference to patient care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and may require a Disclosure and Barring Service check.