Practice Nurse
Queen Mary Practice
LONDON, E18 2QS
Salary
£26.00 to £28.00
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
27 September 2026
27 days left
Job description
We are seeking an experienced and compassionate General Practice Nurse to join our busy and supportive primary care team. The successful candidate wil...
The role includes long-term condition management, wound care, immunisations, cervical screening, new baby checks, NHS Health Checks, phlebotomy, travel health, health promotion and other core primary care services. You will also support the assessment and management of acutely unwell patients, maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and continuing professional development.
- Provide comprehensive nursing assessment, treatment, care planning and health advice.
- Undertake wound assessment, dressing and management, including complex and chronic wounds.
- Perform venepuncture/phlebotomy.
- Undertake cervical screening in accordance with national guidance.
- Carry out 68 week baby checks and provide appropriate health and parenting advice.
- Conduct NHS Health Checks and other health screening.
- Support the management and annual review of long-term conditions, including diabetes, asthma, COPD, hypertension and coronary heart disease.
- Administer childhood and adult immunisations, including seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccinations, in accordance with current guidance.
- Undertake travel health assessments and provide travel vaccinations within scope of competence.
- Provide appropriate contraceptive and sexual health advice.
- Undertake ear irrigation/ear wax removal where appropriately trained.
- Record and monitor clinical observations and recognise changes in a patient's condition.
- Identify and appropriately escalate patients who are acutely unwell or deteriorating.
- Administer medications and treatments safely in accordance with prescriptions and practice protocols.
- Provide patients with clear information regarding their condition, treatment and self-management.
- Promote preventative healthcare, including healthy lifestyle advice, smoking cessation and weight management.
- Provide chaperoning and clinical support to GPs and other healthcare professionals.
- Maintain accurate, confidential and contemporaneous clinical records.
- Adhere to safeguarding, infection prevention and control, information governance and clinical governance requirements.
- Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement activities, practice meetings and continuing professional development.
- Work collaboratively with the wider practice and multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality patient care.
Queen Mary Practice is a friendly, family-run GP practice based within the busy South Woodford Health Centre in Woodford, East London. We are a well-established practice committed to providing compassionate, accessible and high-quality NHS primary care to our local community.
We care for a registered population of approximately 6,500 patients, serving a diverse local community across South Woodford and the surrounding areas. Our patient population includes children, working-age adults and older people, with a strong emphasis on continuity of care, health promotion and the effective management of both acute and long-term conditions.
As a family-run practice, we value a personal, supportive and patient-centred approach. We work closely as a team to ensure patients receive safe, responsive and holistic care, while maintaining a welcoming environment for both patients and staff.
The practice offers a wide range of primary care services, including chronic disease management, childhood immunisations and development checks, cervical screening, NHS Health Checks, women's and men's health, family planning, travel vaccinations, smoking cessation, phlebotomy and preventative healthcare.
For staff joining Queen Mary Practice, this is an opportunity to become part of a friendly, dedicated and supportive team, working in a busy primary care environment where every member of the team plays an important role in delivering high-quality care to approximately 6,500 patients.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current professional registration.
- Minimum of 3 years' proven experience working as a General Practice Nurse within a GP/primary care setting.
- Experience working independently within a busy primary care environment.
- Demonstrable experience in cervical cytology, new baby checks and NHS Health Checks.
- Experience in long-term condition management
- Experience in wound care, including complex and chronic wounds.
- Competence in phlebotomy/venepuncture.
- Experience administering adult and childhood immunisations.
- Excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills.
- Ability to recognise and appropriately escalate deteriorating patients.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong understanding of confidentiality, safeguarding, infection control and clinical governance.
- Commitment to continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Experience in travel health and travel vaccinations.
- Experience providing contraceptive and sexual health services.
- Competence in ear irrigation/ear wax removal.
- Experience contributing to clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives.
- Additional relevant primary care or nursing qualifications.
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
25 August 2026
Last checked
27 August 2026
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