Practice Nurse
St James Medical Centre
Rossendale, BB4 8HHView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
23 November 2026
33 days leftJob description
Due to retirement, we are looking for an experienced and motivated part time practice nurse to join the team here at St James Medical Centre 15 hours ...
The successful candidate will be part of a team providing practice nursing services to our patient population. Main duties include;
- Managing Chronic Disease.
- Performing Cytology Testing
- Running vaccine clinics such as childhood vaccines and seasonal vaccines
- Performing monitoring test such as BP, ECG and Spirometry and blood tests when required .
- Vaccine management.
- Infection Prevention and Control .
- Involvement in achieving QOF targets and other targets as required.
Assess, plan, provide and implement and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of individuals in the practice population
Provide access to GP/PAs
Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition
Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
Check all emergency equipment and drugs regularly and ensure records are up to date.
Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care e.g. diet, exercise, alcohol, smoking cessation
Actively maintain health promotion material within the practice and waiting room notice boards
Undertake health screening, surveillance, new-patient screens and immunisation
Maintain patient confidentiality and accurate record keeping
Attend and participate in practice team and clinical meetings
Vaccination and immunisations, administering injections, ensuring safe vaccine storage, implementing cold chain policy.
- Infection Control support patients and colleagues in adapting sound infection control measures, implementing infection control policy
To perform venepuncture
Mentor and assess trainees and junior team members.
Recognise signs, symptoms and categories of child abuse.
Understand importance of recognition, observation, documentation and communication.
Is aware of child health procedures, statutory local procedures and points of referral.
Has knowledge of other practitioners and agencies roles.
Understands basic legal issues around child abuse.
- Advise patients on available methods of contraception and refer as appropriate.
- Support patients attending for emergency contraception and refer as appropriate.
- Perform interval health checks on patients attending using hormonal contraception.
- Teach patients on risk of STD and refer as necessary.
- Advise women on national/local cervical cytology and mammography screening programmes.
- Undertake cervical smears
- Audit minimum of 20 consecutive smears each year to demonstrate adequate sampling rates.
- Promote breast self-awareness and provide supporting literature for breast self-examination.
- Take swabs for microscopy as directed.
- Make appropriate referrals re menopausal symptoms, osteoporosis, and heart disease.
- Advise on basic incontinence management and make appropriate referrals.
Chronic Disease Management
(Including diabetes, asthma, COPD, CHD, epilepsy)
- Assist in maintaining GP contract re chronic disease patients.
- Work within practice guidelines, ensuring safe practice and acknowledge limitations.
Travel Health Advice
- Vaccinations and medications
- Malaria prophylaxis and bite avoidance
- Safe sex
- Food and water hygiene
- Sun protection
- Health insurance
- First aid
Other
- Any other tasks deemed reasonable and necessary to the role.
To understand and embrace Equality and Diversity and respect different abilities, cultures and beliefs.
- The organisation has a zero tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All employees are required to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children Board Procedures and the Children Act (1989, 2004). In accordance with the CCG and Local Safeguarding Adult Board policy all staff must ensure the health and wellbeing of vulnerable adults is appropriately safeguarded.
- All staff are required to attend training appropriate to their role in safeguarding children and adults, which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and knowing how to raise concerns when those signs of abuse are noticed in a person.
We have a population of 8200 patients. We are a friendly, organised, forward thinking practice. We have the benefit of a number of ARRS staff clinics such as PA, TNA, Mental Health Practitioner, First Contact Physio and Health and Wellbeing coach. We are a training practice and this fosters a culture of support for our staff. We have excellent clinical and administration teams and effective processes in place to help clinics run smoothly.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing Chronic Disease including Respiratory, Heart and Diabetes.
- Experience of running vaccine clinics including childhood vaccines and seasonal vaccines.
- Experienced in taking cytology tests
- Meeting QOF targets.
- Experience of supporting junior team members
Desirable: - Experience of Using EMIS
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills (verbally and in writing) and the ability to build rapport.
- Organised, approachable, self motivated, patient, empathetic and positive.
- Flexible to provider cover where needed.
- Reliable.
- Supportive and able to provide quality care.
Qualifications
Essential: - Registered Nurse; - Chronic Disease qualifications; - Phlebotomy qualification.; - Cytology Qualification; - Qualified to give childhood vaccines
Desirable: - Qualified to give travel vaccines; - Qualified in Spirometry including Interpretation; - Qualified to Mentor junior staff
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
19 October 2026
Last checked
21 October 2026
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