Practice Nurse

• Provide exceptional, patient-centred care with warmth and professionalism, including ECGs, dressings, cervical smears, vaccinations, wound management, and chronic disease reviews.
• Work as part of our collaborative nursing team, contributing to a positive and inclusive environment where everyones voice is heard.
• Support patients with chronic conditions, helping them manage their health with empathy, patience, and expertise.
• Engage in health promotion and preventive care, empowering patients to make informed choices about their well-being.
• Maintain accurate records and adhere to NMC standards, safeguarding, and infection control protocols to ensure the highest level of safety and care.

• Deliver high-quality, compassionate nursing care across a range of duties, including:
• Venepuncture, diagnostic tests (e.g., ECGs, cervical cytology), and specimen handling.
• Immunisations and vaccinations (adult, child, and travel).
• Wound care, dressings, and chronic disease management (e.g., diabetes, respiratory conditions, hypertension).
• New patient checks, health assessments, and opportunistic screening.
• Administer medicines, injections and vaccinations safely and effectively under the appropriate legal authority, including prescriptions, Patient Specific Directions and Patient Group Directions, and in accordance with practice policies.
• Provide holistic, patient-centred assessments, offering advice, support, and signposting to promote health and well-being.

• Work closely with colleagues in a supportive and cooperative manner, contributing to a positive team dynamic.
• Participate in team meetings, training, and development to share knowledge and grow alongside your peers.
• Support junior staff where needed, fostering a culture of learning and mutual respect.

• Maintain accurate, up-to-date clinical records in line with NMC guidelines and practice policies.
• Ensure compliance with infection control, safeguarding, and health and safety standards.
• Contribute to audits, quality improvement initiatives, and the maintenance of disease registers.

• Communicate clearly, kindly, and effectively with patients, carers, and colleagues, even in complex or sensitive situations.
• Promote self-management and healthy lifestyle choices through empathetic education and support.
• Uphold confidentiality, professionalism, and dignity in all interactions.

Essential

• Experience of delivering safe, person-centered nursing care.
• Experience of assessing patients and planning, delivering and evaluating appropriate nursing interventions.
• Experience of supporting patients with long-term conditions.
• Experience of working autonomously within professional competence.
• Experience of working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of maintaining accurate and contemporaneous clinical records.

Desirable

• Previous experience in general practice or another primary care setting.
• Experience in respiratory long-term condition management.
• Experience of undertaking cervical screening.
• Experience of delivering adult and childhood immunisation programmes.
• Experience in travel health.
• Experience of clinical audit, quality improvement or maintaining disease registers.
• Experience using SystmOne.

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse with active registration.
• Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
• Current training or competence appropriate to the clinical duties undertaken.

Desirable

• Recognised qualification or accredited training in one or more long-term conditions, such as asthma, COPD, diabetes or cardiovascular disease.
• Cervical sample-taking qualification and evidence of current competence.
• Immunisation and vaccination training covering adults and children.
• Travel health training or qualification.
• Independent or supplementary prescribing qualification.
• Full UK driving licence.