Practice Nurse
Woodside Medical Centre
Coventry, CV4 9PLView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
9 October 2026
9 days leftJob description
Are you an enthusiastic Practice Nurse looking for your next opportunity? Woodside Medical Centre is looking for a motivated, compassionate and enthus...
What are we looking for?
We are looking for someone who is caring, reliable and committed to providing excellent patient care.
- A Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
- Able to work confidently both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
- Organised, adaptable and able to manage your own workload effectively.
- Committed to continuing professional development.
- Able to demonstrate good clinical judgement, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Willing to learn, develop and take on new responsibilities.
- Committed to maintaining high standards of confidentiality, safeguarding, infection prevention and patient safety.
What will you be doing?
Working as part of our multidisciplinary team, you will provide a broad range of nursing services to our patients. Your duties will be tailored to your experience, competencies and training and may include:
- Routine nursing assessments and patient reviews.
- Long-term condition management, including diabetes, COPD and asthma
- Wound and ulcer care
- Cervical screening/cytology.
- Routine, childhood and travel vaccinations and immunisations.
- Contraception and family planning.
- Health promotion and well-person clinics.
- Blood pressure monitoring, ECGs and urinalysis.
- Taking appropriate clinical specimens, including swabs.
- Peak flow measurement
- Nebulising where appropriately trained.
- NHS health Checks.
- Minor illness assessment and management within your scope of practice.
- Supporting GPs with minor surgery and coil fittings.
- Supporting travel health assessments and providing appropriate health advice.
- Recognising and responding appropriately to safeguarding concerns.
- Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous clinical records.
- Participating in clinical audit, quality improvement and service development.
- Working collaboratively with GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants and the wider practice team.
There may also be opportunities or a requirement to undertake home visits, depending on service needs.
For candidates who are already working in, or developing towards, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) role, we are keen to support your continued professional development.
Alongside your Practice Nurse responsibilities, there may be opportunities to undertake care home ward rounds and acute illness clinics, allowing you to utilise and further develop your advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills within a supportive primary care environment.
We are open to discussing how the role can be structured around your existing competencies, interests and career aspirations, with the aim of developing a role that makes best use of your skills while supporting the wider needs of our patients and practice.
We are a friendly, supportive and established practice
with a strong focus on providing high-quality care to our local community.
Joining our team means becoming part of a multidisciplinary
environment where your contribution is valued and where there are opportunities
to broaden your clinical experience and develop your career within primary
care.
We encourage our staff to take an active role in service
development, clinical audit and improving patient care.
Whether you are an experienced Practice Nurse or a
Registered Nurse looking to take the next step into general practice, we would
love to hear from you.
Experience
Essential: - Experience of working within a nursing team; - Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
Desirable: - Experience of working in primary care; - Experience of working in a GP practice
Qualifications
Essential: - Registered Nurse (RGN/RN) with current NMC registration.; - Basic Life Support.
Desirable
- Long term condition management qualifications.
- Cervical screening/cytology.
- Immunisation and vaccination training.
- Family planning/contraception.
- Travel health.
- EMIS experience.
- Mentoring/teaching qualification.
- Infection prevention and control qualification
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
23 September 2026
Last checked
25 September 2026
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