Practice Nurse

• Deliver high-quality nursing care within a busy GP practice.
• Carry out health assessments, routine examinations, and chronic disease reviews.
• Administer immunisations, vaccinations, injections, and medications in line with current guidelines.
• Provide cervical screening, wound care, dressings, and other treatment room services.
• Support health promotion by educating patients on healthy lifestyles, medication, and self-management of long-term conditions.
• Maintain accurate and confidential patient records using the practice's clinical system.
• Work collaboratively with GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide coordinated patient care.
• Help maintain clinical standards, infection control procedures, and stock management within the treatment room

• General nursing assessments and consultations.
• Routine observations, including blood pressure, pulse, oxygen saturations, temperature, weight and BMI.
• New patient health assessments.
• NHS Health Checks.
• Health promotion and lifestyle advice.
• Cardiovascular risk assessment.
• Smoking cessation and healthy lifestyle support.
• Wound assessment and management.
• Dressings and wound care.
• Suture and clip removal.
• ECG recording.
• Urinalysis and appropriate investigations.
• Blood sampling where trained and competent.
• Spirometry and respiratory assessments where appropriately trained.
• Ear care where appropriately trained.
• Supporting minor illness and appropriate escalation of patients where required.
• Patient education and self-management advice.
• Comply with the practice Infection Prevention and Control policy.
• Follow appropriate hand hygiene procedures.
• Use PPE appropriately.
• Maintain safe clinical environments.
• Dispose of clinical waste and sharps appropriately.
• Maintain appropriate standards of cleanliness and infection control within the treatment room.
• Report infection control concerns to the appropriate person.
• The Practice Nurse will actively promote preventative healthcare and support patients to improve their health and wellbeing.

• Healthy lifestyle advice.
• Weight management.
• Smoking cessation.
• Alcohol awareness.
• Exercise and physical activity.
• Cardiovascular risk reduction.
• Diabetes prevention and management.
• Respiratory health.
• Vaccination awareness.
• Screening programmes.
• Self-management of long-term conditions.
• Participate in infection control audits where required.
• The Practice Nurse will contribute to the practice's clinical governance programme by:
• Participating in clinical audits.
• Contributing to quality improvement projects.
• Participating in significant event reviews.
• Identifying opportunities to improve patient care.
• Following evidence-based clinical guidance.
• Supporting implementation of national and local healthcare initiatives.
• Maintaining awareness of relevant changes in primary care.
• Contributing to practice meetings where appropriate.
• Supporting the practice to meet CQC, NHS and contractual requirements.

Essential

• Experience using a clinical software system
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Very organised
• Well presented
• Ability to work under pressure

Desirable

• Experience in an NHS GP Practice
• Experience using EMIS Web
• Diabetes lead experience

Essential

• RCN qualification
• NMC registration
• Cytology trained taking Smears/HPV
• Immunisations child & travel
• Wound care
• Experience with Chronic Disease Reviews

Desirable

• Spirometry
• FeNo trained
• Specialist qualification in Diabetes