Practice Nurse

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Little Clacton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Life insurance

Family benefits (adult dependents/chil

Ill health benefits

20% employer contribution

Living Wage Foundation Accredited

Health service discounts

Annual Leave: 6 weeks pro rata

Enhanced maternity & paternity terms

Job summary

Old Road Medical Practice is hiring a qualified practice nurse for a full-time role (40 hours per week across four days) to join our team in Clacton. The post covers diabetes clinics, health assessments, vaccinations and long-term condition management, with training provided where needed.

You will hold a relevant nursing degree and current NMC PIN, with the ability to undertake a range of nursing duties in a busy primary care setting and contribute to patient-centred care plans.

Qualifications

• Qualified nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience or training in general practice nursing is preferred.
• Competence in phlebotomy, injections and wound care.

Responsibilities

• Run diabetes clinics and reviews; provide health assessments.
• Administer medications and treatments; perform diagnostic tests.
• Develop and evaluate patient-centred plans for long-term conditions.
• Promote health and wellbeing; support vaccination and immunisation programmes.
• Deliver home visits as needed and support urgent care pathways.

Skills

Compassionate care

Empathy

Long-term conditions experience

Driving licence

Education

Nursing degree

NMC PIN

GP practice nursing training

Job description

About the Role

Old Road Medical Practice has a fantastic opportunity for qualified practice nurse to join our team on a full-time basis for 40 hours per week over 4 days.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Diabetes clinics and reviews (training to be provided if not qualified).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Running diabetes clinics and reviews (training to be provided if not qualified).

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) 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, screening, management of long‑term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care and diabetes management.
• 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.
• Driving licence essential due to supporting with home visits

About Us

Old Road Surgery is looking for an euthanasic, qualified nurse to join our clinical team. We currently look after 9,400 patients between two surgeries, based in Clacton and St Osyth.

• NHS Pension Scheme
  • The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefits scheme
  • Life insurance
  • Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and children’s pension
  • Ill health benefits
  • 20% employer contribution
• Proper Pay
  • Living Wage Foundation Accredited
• Health service discounts
• Annual Leave: 6 weeks pro rata.
• Enhanced maternity & paternity terms

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.