Practice Nurse

Westbury Medical Centre; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A local GP practice in London is seeking a Practice Nurse to join their supportive team. Responsibilities include cervical screening, immunisations, and wound care. The ideal candidate will be a qualified nurse with NMC registration and experience in primary care, familiar with Emis Web and related software. Competitive hourly rates up to £32 are offered for experienced candidates.

Benefits

Birthday gift scheme

Regular social outings

Air conditioning throughout the building

Qualifications

• Core Practice Nursing duties expected in the role include cervical screening, immunisations, and wound care.
• Qualified practice nurse able to work in primary care is essential.
• Experience with Emis Web, Docman, AccuRx is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cervical screening and speculum check examinations.
• Administer child and adult immunisations.
• Perform wound care including compression dressings.

Skills

Cervical screening

Child immunisations

Wound care

Long-term condition reviews

Contraception management

Education

NMC approved nursing degree

Current active registration with NMC

Experience as practice nurse

Tools

Emis Web

Docman

AccuRx

Job description

Westbury Medical Centre is looking to recruit a Practice Nurse.

We are happy to appoint a newly qualified or experienced practice nurse.

Our GP Surgery is in Wood Green, London N22, and is a friendly, supportive and collaborative GP practice. We have very high rates of staff retention amongst both the clinicians and administration teams.

Our Surgery goes to great lengths to ensure the Surgery team feel supported and valued. There are two experienced GP full time partners and a large multidisciplinary clinical team including physician associates, salaried GP's, HCA's and clinical pharmacists. Our Surgery the uses Emis Web clinical system with Docman and AccuRx.

Main duties of the job

Core Practice Nursing duties expected in the role include:

• Cervical screening and speculum check examinations. Coding cervical screening results. Supporting recall efforts.
• Child immunisations and full awareness of primary schedule changes. Supporting recall efforts.
• Adult immunisations
• Wound care including compression dressings and ulcer care. Skill in ABPI testing would be an advantage. Suture and staple removal.
• Liaison with local Tissue Viability Nurse
• Travel immunisations and advice
• Long-term condition reviews around asthma, diabetes, COPD, hypertension - to support existing HCA team who manage the majority of this work
• Contraception. Oral pill checks.
• Long term drug administration e.g. Zoladex, B12 (with PSD where necessary)
• Support with relevant practice administration e.g. resuscitation box checking, clinical audit, QOF/LCS work
• Supporting cold chain management for received vaccines

About us

Our Surgery has 12,600 patients registered. It is a friendly organisation to work with. Team morale and retention is very important to the management team.

We have:

• Recently completed a Surgery refurbishment, including a new practice nurse consulting room.
• Regular social dinner trips/outings e.g. bowling, paid for by the Surgery
• Birthday gift scheme - £50 gift of choice on occasion of member of staff's birthday (following successful probation period, gifts have to be chosen from Amazon, other conditions may apply)
• Air conditioning throughout the building to maintain a pleasant working environment.

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the job

Core Practice Nursing duties expected in the role include:

• Cervical screening and speculum check examinations. Coding cervical screening results. Supporting recall efforts.
• Child immunisations and full awareness of primary schedule changes. Supporting recall efforts.
• Adult immunisations
• Wound care including compression dressings and ulcer care. Skill in ABPI testing would be an advantage. Suture and staple removal.
• Liaison with local Tissue Viability Nurse
• Travel immunisations and advice
• Long-term condition reviews around asthma, diabetes, COPD, hypertension - to support existing HCA team who manage the majority of this work
• Contraception. Oral pill checks.
• Long term drug administration e.g. Zoladex, B12 (with PSD where necessary)
• Support with relevant practice administration e.g. resuscitation box checking, clinical audit, QOF/LCS work
• Supporting cold chain management for received vaccines

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A qualified practice nurse able to work in primary care is an essential criteria for this position.
• Accordingly we would expect to see candidates having:
• * completed an NMC approved nursing degree
• * current active registration with NMC as a registered nurse
• * experience working as practice nurse in primary care at least as part of training
• Experience with Emis Web, Docman, AccuRx software packages.
• Live within 30 minutes commute to the Surgery using public transport (our postcode N22 6RX).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£26 to £32 an hourHigher tier for more experienced candidates