Senior Practice Nurse - Belmont, Bowburn & Sherburn

Intrahealth Ltd; Sherburn; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a motivated Practice Nurse to deliver high-quality nursing care in Sherburn. This role involves leading the nursing team, managing long-term conditions, and supporting patients with health promotion strategies. Ideal candidates will have strong critical thinking and clinical skills, and be committed to providing effective patient care. Join a well-established organization operating across NHS services in the North East, North West, and Yorkshire.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering evidence-based nursing care to patients.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a healthcare team.
• Strong leadership skills to manage nursing resources.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safe and effective nursing care to practice population.
• Lead the General Practice Nurse (GPN) team.
• Work with healthcare professionals to manage long-term conditions.
• Support health needs for family planning and vaccination programmes.

Skills

Critical thinking

Clinical decision-making

Patient management

Health promotion strategies

Job description

The post holder is responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to the whole practice population. As the team leader for the GPN team, the post holder is accountable for nursing service delivery. They will lead and manage all the nursing resource, working closely with the practice manager and GPs to deliver the practice priorities. Clinically, the focus of the role is the delivery of evidence‑based practice for patients with long‑term conditions and management and preventative nursing interventions to all patients. As autonomous practitioners the nurse is responsible for the care delivered, demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical decision‑making. They will work collaboratively with the whole general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing leadership and direction for the nursing team.

Clinical Practice

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long‑term condition that promote health and well being
• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long‑term condition
• Work with other health care professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat long‑term conditions, including using non‑drug‑based treatment methods, in line with national and local policies and practice needs
• Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs
• Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote them to live healthily, and apply principles of self‑care
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
• Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and highly motivated Practice Nurse to provide a high quality service to our patients within our Parkgate Surgery.

IntraHealth is one of the UKs leading provider of NHS Primary and Community Care services. We serve a range of patients across our three divisions of Primary Care (general practice), Pharmacy and Clinical Services which includes anticoagulation monitoring, patient medication reviews and childhood immunisation programmes.

We also provide management and clinical support to other GP practices and NHS bodies. We are a well‑established organisation having provided NHS services since the company was founded in 1999. Our team is made up of GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and local administration teams supported by a centralised back office function; providing finance, HR, administration and data analysis support.

We operate NHS services across the North East, North West and Yorkshire.