Practice Nurse

Addison Road Medical Practice; Walthamstow; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading medical practice in Walthamstow is looking for a Practice Nurse to join their team, working on a full or part-time basis. Responsibilities include delivering healthcare, managing chronic conditions, and providing immunisation services. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of nursing and general practice experience, with strong skills in teamwork and resilience. The role emphasizes supporting patient care and active participation in innovative approaches to healthcare delivery.

Benefits

Support for career development

Positive working environment

Access to ongoing training

Qualifications

• Must hold NMC registration.
• Minimum of 2 years experience in general practice.
• Experience as a nurse for at least 2 years.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient needs and provide effective healthcare.
• Implement health promotion and wellbeing programs.
• Manage chronic disease treatment plans.
• Provide routine nursing care and vaccinations.

Skills

Immunisation skills

Cervical smear provision

Chronic disease management

Strong teamwork

Education

NMC Registration

2 years plus General Practice Experience

2 years plus Nursing Experience

Job description

We have an amazing job opportunity for a Practice Nurse to join our award winning, forward thinking and growing team on a full or part time basis. As a Practice Nurse you will be supported by the partners, Senior Management Team and a dedicated team. You will work collaboratively with the wider team and organisation to meet the needs of patients and provide leadership and direction for the nursing team. Our ideal candidate will have drive, dedication, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude. They will have the ability to work well with all teams across all our sites and be open to innovative ways of working, including working collaboratively with our 20 + nursing colleagues working across our sites.

Main duties of the job

The key focuses of the role will be supporting the wider practice team in delivering care to our residents. This includes monitoring and assisting in long-term conditions management and proactively supporting health promotion and screening activities.

Skills in immunisation, and cervical smear provision are essential requirements.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Provide general nursing care including, adult and child immunisations, travel vaccinations, cervical smears, wound care and chronic disease management etc in accordance with guidelines
• Maintain nursing policies and procedures.
• Ensure self-development and registration requirements are kept up to date and regularly reviewed.

About us

Addison Road Medical Practice (ARMP) is a large teaching practice based in a purpose-built building in Walthamstow, North East London (NEL). The practice serves 18 000 patients and is part of a wider group of 5 GP Practices spread across NEL serving 50 000 residents. The practice employs 1 full time lead nurse, 2 part time nurses and 1 HCA as well as a host of other Allied Health Professionals as part of a diverse multidisciplinary workforce skills mix. The organisation is an at scale primary care provider leveraging scale, technology and high performing teams to deliver high quality and accessible primary care for local residents. ARMPs core values are compassion, quality, integrity, respect, trust, accountability and fun. The organisation prioritises career devolvement and staff wellbeing for its 150+ staff members and is committed to supporting the education, training and development of its nursing workforce to ensure sustainability in the local nursing workforce. Having strong visible nursing leadership is a key priority for ARMP and the successful candidate will be involved in shaping this future vision with the opportunity to grow as the organisation grows, taking on more leadership responsibilities.

Job responsibilities

• KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• To assess the needs of patients ensuring the provision of healthcare is appropriate, incorporating evidence-based practice
• To develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes
• To work in conjunction with the Infection Prevention Control (IPC) lead and to work to the IPC Policy providing evidence of compliance where necessary. To assist the IPC lead in producing the IPC annual statement
• To implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients that promote health and wellbeing
• To identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patients health
• To provide routine nursing care (including cervical screening, childhood immunisation and learning disability checks) to patients in accordance with practice policies and protocols
• To support the provision of travel vaccination services
• To ensure accurate, clinical details are recorded at all times
• To ensure compliance with the practice chaperone policy
• To ensure CQC Compliance is met at all times
• To support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• To implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
• To deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate

Provide education to patients managing chronic conditions including healthy lifestyle changes and preventative care

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date patient records
• Offer emotional and psychological support to patients and safeguard where necessary
• Work collaboratively with the other members of the MDTs
• Referring patients in need of further support to GPs
• Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of practice equipment and medicines
• Admin work associated with vaccinations, ordering vaccinations and that they are ordered in a timely manner
• Ensure fridge temperatures are checked daily
• Ensuring that we are meeting the smear targets and childhood vaccination targets

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NMC Registered
• 2 years plus General Practice Experience
• 2 years plus Nursing Experience

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.