Practice nurse/Advanced nurse practitioner

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative healthcare practice is seeking a dedicated Practice Nurse to join their team. This role offers the opportunity to provide high-quality clinical care while working alongside experienced professionals. You'll be responsible for a range of nursing duties including managing chronic conditions, administering vaccinations, and ensuring infection control. The practice emphasizes professional development and mentorship, making it an ideal environment for those looking to grow in their nursing career. Join a forward-thinking team committed to patient-centered care and make a real impact in the community.

Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

Mentorship Programs

Access to Training from ICB Training Hub

Supportive Team Environment

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC and trained in cervical screening and wound care.
• Experience in managing long-term conditions like asthma and diabetes.

Responsibilities

• Carry out routine nursing tasks related to patient care.
• Manage chronic diseases and provide immunisations and travel advice.
• Supervise healthcare assistants and maintain accurate records.

Skills

Cervical Cytology

Wound Care

Childhood Immunisations

Long-term Condition Management

Infection Control

Travel Health

Education

NMC Registration

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic Practice Nurse/Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our friendly, forward-thinking, caring and innovative team to rise to provide high quality clinical care, adopting traditional values of patient-centered general practice.

You will be working alongside other experienced Practice Nurses and Advanced Nurse Practitioner, providing the whole range of practice nursing duties. We encourage and support learning and professional development and have access to training from our ICB Training Hub. We provide mentorship and conduct regular supportive teaching and nurse appraisals.

We are a well-established training practice with a strong patient centered ethos, dedicated to delivering high quality patient care.

- GMS practice with newly built, large, state of the art premises. Own car park

- List size 18,200+

- Training practice with a strong patient centred ethos (GP registrars and medical students, trainee nurse and multiprofessional education)

- We employ a team of Clinical Independent Prescribing Pharmacists who manage chronic diseases, medicines management and repeat prescriptions, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, nurses and extended primary care team including HCAs, Social prescribers; First Contact Physiotherapists, paramedics, Physician Associate

- We are an integral part of a close, forward-looking and innovative PCN

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out routine nursing tasks related to patient care as indicated by patient need including:
• Cervical Cytology
• Wound care
• Removal of Sutures/ clips
• Routine immunisations/Childhood immunisations
• Injections e.g. B12, Goserelin and others
• Urinalysis
• Travel Advice and Vaccinations
• Long term conditions, including:
• Asthma and COPD Management
• Hypertension Management / 24 hour ambulatory BP
• Diabetes Management
• ECGs
• Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
• Following agreed clinical protocols.
• Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs and upholding the standards required for Infection prevention and control.
• Maintaining GP and Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required
• Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
• Supervision of the HCAs
• Ordering of Health Promotion Literature
• Ordering of vaccinations to maintain stock levels if required
• Participation in administrative systems in the practice
• Maintain accurate records
• Advise other team members of potential problems or errors within the range of assigned tasks
• Attend and participate in any practice / clinical meetings monthly.
• On occasion there may be a requirement to undertake home visits
• Support in QOF and Enhanced Services relevant to role
• Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post

About us

Honeypot Medical Centre is a forward-looking, innovative general practice, serving a population of 18,200+ patients. We believe in retaining the traditional values of general practice, including a strong patient-centred ethos, while embracing innovation and technology to provide a general practice fit for the future. We embrace skill-mix with an extensive team, including GPs, advanced nurse practitioners, practice nurses, pharmacists, first contact physiotherapists, mental health practitioner, physician associate, social prescribing link workers and health care assistants. We are a training practice approved to train GP registrars, F2 doctors and medical students and GP trainee nurse, and are committed to training the future generation of primary care clinicians. We are an integral member of our Primary Care Network and our Senior Partner is the Clinical Director. We have newly built modern, attractive premises and our own staff car park. We provide weekly clinical teaching, mentoring and supervision for our diverse groups of multi-professional clinicians. We support and encourage professional development, both in terms of formal external and in-house training and development.

Job responsibilities

PRACTICE NURSE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

please also see attached JDs for practice nurse and ANP

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out routine nursing tasks related to patient care as indicated by patient need including:
• Cervical Cytology
• Wound care
• Removal of Sutures, clips
• Routine immunisations and Childhood immunisations
• Injections e.g. B12, Goserelin and others
• Urinalysis
• Travel Advice and Vaccinations
• Long term conditions, including:
• Asthma and COPD Management
• Hypertension Management / 24 hour ambulatory BP
• Diabetes Management
• ECGs
• Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
• Following agreed clinical protocols.
• Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs and upholding the standards required for Infection prevention and control.
• Maintaining GP and Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required
• Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
• Supervision of the HCAs
• Ordering of Health Promotion Literature
• Ordering of vaccinations to maintain stock levels if required
• Participation in administrative systems in the practice
• Maintain accurate records
• Advise other team members of potential problems or errors within the range of assigned tasks
• Attend and participate in any practice / clinical meetings monthly.
• On occasion there may be a requirement to undertake home visits
• Support in QOF and Enhanced Services relevant to role
• Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
• Apply infection control measures when collecting and handling of laboratory specimens, disposing of waste materials, dealing with blood and body fluids spillages and report and treat sharps injuries.

Undertake annual training and demonstrate competency in anaphylaxis and resuscitation techniques

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with NMC
• Trained in cervical screening
• Trained in wound care
• Trained in childhood immunisations
• Trained in travel health and vaccinations
• Long-term condition management, including asthma, COPD, diabetes and hypertension
• Infection control 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.