Practice Nurse

NHS; Leyland; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Leyland is seeking a skilled Practice Nurse to join their team. This role involves managing chronic diseases, delivering immunisations, and collaborating within a multidisciplinary team to provide patient-centred care. Candidates must have a Registered Nurse qualification and strong communication skills. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a supportive environment where professional development is encouraged and making a significant impact on patient health is possible.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse qualification with relevant experience.
• Strong skills in chronic disease management and immunisations.
• Excellent communication and patient care abilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage chronic conditions like diabetes and asthma.
• Deliver immunisations for adults and children.
• Perform cervical screening and wound care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team for patient care.
• Maintain accurate patient records and meet safety standards.

Skills

General practice nursing

Chronic disease management

Immunisations

Cervical screening

Health promotion

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Practice Nurse to join our friendly, supportive and forward-thinking GP practice. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a modern environment where innovation, teamwork and high-quality patient care are at the heart of everything we do.

The successful candidate will provide a broad range of general practice nursing services, including chronic disease management, long-term condition reviews, immunisations, cervical screening, health promotion and treatment room duties. You will work closely with GPs, healthcare assistants and the wider multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.

As a progressive practice, we actively embrace new ways of working, digital innovation and service development. We strongly support professional development, offering opportunities to expand clinical skills, undertake additional training and contribute to shaping future services. You will be valued as an integral member of the team, with the opportunity to make a real difference to patients and the local community.

If you are passionate about general practice nursing and keen to grow within a dynamic, supportive setting, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As a Practice Nurse, your key responsibilities will include:

• Managing and reviewing patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes, asthma, COPD, and cardiovascular disease.
• Delivering immunisations for adults and children, including travel vaccines.
• Carrying out cervical screening, sexual health checks, and wound care.
• Performing treatment room procedures, including dressings, ECGs, blood tests, and injections.
• Supporting health promotion, lifestyle advice, and patient education initiatives.
• Collaborating closely with GPs, healthcare assistants, and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective, and patient-centred care.
• Maintaining accurate patient records and ensuring clinical governance, safety, and infection control standards are met.
• Participating in clinical audits, quality improvement projects, and professional development opportunities to enhance service delivery.

This role offers the chance to work in a forward-thinking, supportive practice where your skills are valued, and you can make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of the local community.

About us

Our GP practices, are based in Chorley and South Ribble, we are a friendly, forward-thinking and recognised training practice with a growing patient list. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while embracing innovation and modern ways of working.

We have a dynamic and supportive team of GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, and administrative staff, all working together to provide safe, effective, and compassionate care. As a training practice, we are committed to professional development, mentoring, and creating an environment where learning and growth are encouraged.

With a growing patient population, this is an exciting time to join our practice and make a real impact. We offer a welcoming workplace, opportunities to expand your clinical skills, and the chance to contribute to service development in a progressive and ambitious setting.

If you are passionate about general practice nursing and want to be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Practice Nurse Band5 - 6 Equivalent

Reports to Clinically: NurseManager

Reports to Administratively: Practice Manager

Job Summary

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder is responsiblefor the delivery of Practice Nursing services to the practice population. Supported by senior nurses within the practice, they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role, focusing upon supporting patients to be healthy, monitoring of long-term conditions, health prevention and screening activities. They will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing nurse leadership as required.

JobResponsibilities

Providing assessment, screening and treatment services and health education advice

Provide nursing treatments to patients in participation with general practitioners or independently to agreed protocols

Provide general and specific health screening to the Practice patients (within agreed protocols) with referral to general practitioners as necessary

Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being

Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition

Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition

Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care

Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care

Deliver opportunistic health promotion

Support and advise women requesting information relating to family planning needs

Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultations

Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the National Framework (NSF) for Mental Health

Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children

Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad

Supplies and equipment Treatment room and other areas

In participation with the Nurse Manager, ensure the maintenance of equipment and stock levels relating to patient care

Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures

Following appropriate training, undertake the collection, storage and dispatch of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, smears etc and ensure the cleanliness of any equipment so used. Perform any investigatory procedures requested by the GPs

Administrative and professional responsibilities

Ensure accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes on the clinical computer system as appropriate

Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the Practice

Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports

Attend and participate in Practice meetings as required

Assist in the formulation of Practice philosophy, strategy and policy and develop appropriate protocols

Mentor and training of Health Care Assistants

Research projects

Co-operate and participate as required in any research projects within the Practice

Student / staff education and training

Participate in the education and training of students of all disciplines and the induction of all members of Practice staff with special responsibility for nursing staff

Liaison

Maintain effective liaison with other agencies and staff concerned with patient care and with all other disciplines within the Practice, with appropriate regard to confidentiality

Professional development

Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health& Safety

To ensure that safe systems of work are practiced and that the agreed health and safety policies are carried out. To be aware of the responsibility of every employee to have regard for safety for him or herself and others at work in the health and safety at work act

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards

Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holders role

Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)

Reporting potential risks identified

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights

Personal/Professional Development

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk