Practice Nurse (Maternity Cover)

Watling Street Practice; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave 28 days pro-rata + birthday off

NHS discounts

Wellbeing resources for staff

Job summary

Watling Street Practice is seeking a Practice Nurse for maternity cover on a 15-hour week basis. The role runs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with flexibility for other patterns. Fixed-term for 9 months, starting as soon as possible, based in Milton Keynes.

The successful candidate will join a caring, modern practice with a focus on patient-centred care and teamwork across three sites in the Watling Street Primary Care Network.

Qualifications

• Experience as Treatment Room Nurse.
• Dressing wounds (including legs).
• Baby immunisations and smear experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing services including treatment, screening and minor procedures.
• Run clinics including vaccinations and contraception reviews.
• Undertake diagnostic tests (blood glucose, urine analysis).
• Collect and dispatch laboratory specimens (blood, urine, swabs).
• Provide wound care and removal of sutures; administer immunisations.
• Provide telephone advice and occasional home visits within competence.
• Support a positive, patient-centred culture within the practice.
• Support the whole practice team.

Skills

Communication skills

Empathy

Compassionate care

Clinical nursing

Wound care

Vaccinations

Immunisations

Job description

Watling Street Practice are seeking Practice Nurse to provide maternity cover until Friday 29th October 2027.

We regularly review applications, and reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role.

Hours, Salary and Benefits

• 28 days annual leave (pro-rata'd), increasing to 33 days with length of service, plus bank holidays & your birthday off
• NHS Discounts with a massive number of retailers (with a Bluelight card)
• Wellbeing resources available free to all staff

Shift Pattern: 15 hours per week - Conversations around flexible working and compressed hours are encouraged

We are seeking someone to join us on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but are open to discussing other working patterns with the right candidate.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Practice Nurse to join our clinical team; someone with excellent communication skills, a strong sense of empathy, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

About us

Our ethos is to treatpatients as we would expect our family members to be treated. We are proudofour caring and supportive team approach and it is important that the successfulapplicant fits well within our team.

We pride ourselves onbeing a modern, forward thinking general practice whilst retaining traditionalvalues.

As Watling StreetPractice, our three sites are within Stony Stratford, Great Holm and ShenleyChurch End. We are part of the Watling Street Primary Care Network and have acommunity team including nurses, social prescribers and social work assistantsupporting our patient populations.

We strive to provide highquality, readily accessible medical and preventative health care within a wellorganised, efficient, up-to-date, friendly and caring environment.

Job responsibilities

Main Responsibilities and Duties

• Provide nursing services to patients, including treatment, screening, advice and minor therapeutic procedures
• Run clinics for patients including vaccinations, cervical cytology, contraception reviews and wound care to include removal of sutures and leg ulcers.
• To undertake diagnostic tests including blood glucose monitoring and urine analysis
• To take and despatch safely laboratory specimens including blood, urine, swabs and smears
• To provide treatment for cuts and bruises, dressings of wounds and leg ulcers and removal of sutures
• To provide immunisations for all ages and diseases and to know the contra‑…
• To provide telephone advice to patients and occasional home visits where appropriate and within levels of competence
• Helping to maintain a positive, patient focussed culture
• Helping to maintain a positive, supportive culture across the whole of the practice team

Experience

• Treatment Room Nurse
• Dressings, including legs
• Baby Immunisations
• Smears
• Contraception (Depos and pill checks)
• Bloods
• ECGs
• Travel immunisations

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.

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A2688-26-0049

Job locations

Watling Street Practice @ Great Holm

Kensington Drive

Great Holm

Milton Keynes

MK89HN

United Kingdom

Market Square

Milton Keynes

MK11 1YA

United Kingdom