Practice Nurse - Enhanced Access
Out of Hours West Lancashire CIC Ltd
Skelmersdale, WN8 0HG · Ormskirk, L40 4LA · Preston, PR4 6UJ · Skelmersdale, WN8 8LA · Ormskirk, L39 1PXView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Bank
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 October 2026
4 days leftJob description
Are you a passionate and experienced Practice Nurse seeking a challenging and rewarding role within a dynamic primary care setting? We are looking for...
- Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health.
- Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
- Request pathology services as required.
- Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients into secondary /specialist care as required.
- Maintain accurate clinical records
- Ensure read codes are used effectively.
- Deliver well woman clinics.
- Deliver well man clinics.
- Carry out cytology screening including smears.
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
- Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within scope of practice).
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies.
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
For further details please see full Job Description document on NHS job
listing for Practice Nurse Position.
Employment will be with OWLS CIC Ltd West Lancashire GP Federation, as
a central function to the GP Practices and Primary Care Network (PCN)
members.
OWLS CIC is a small GP owned and led not-for-profit primary care
organisation, run by GPs and health professionals.
OWLS was founded in the 90s by a small group of General Practitioners,
with the main aim of ensuring high quality out of hours services. In 2017 it
transitioned to become a GP Federation to support and provide services
for its practices and to offer a vehicle that local GPs had an opportunity to
bid for, and provide, innovative primary care services in their local area.
We are a not-for-profit organisation, which means that all the money we
generate through service contracts is invested back into providing patient
care
Qualifications
Essential: - NMC Registration.; - Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a team working autonomously in a
- nursing role
- Clinical Management service delivery promoting Health
- Education.
- Evidence of further development of own clinical practice.
- Understand the importance of evidence-based practice
- ability to record accurate clinical notes.
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when
- to refer to GPs.
Desirable
- Working within a community setting
- Experience of General Practice/ Primary Care Experience.
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
- Driving Licence access to independent travel.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
14 September 2026
Last checked
16 September 2026
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