Practice Nurse
Wootton Medical Centre
Northampton, NN4 6LWView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
23 October 2026
4 days leftJob description
We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Practice Nurse, 20 hours per week, to join our multidisciplinary clinical team. This is an exciting opp...
The post holder
will work as an autonomous Practice Nurse, providing high-quality,
evidence-based nursing care to the practice population and supporting the
delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred services.
Clinical Responsibilities
Undertake chronic disease management clinics,
including
Cardiovascular Disease primary prevention
Carry out annual reviews, monitoring and personalised
care planning for patients with long-term conditions.
Provide advice, education and support to patients to
encourage self-management and healthier lifestyles
Administer and promote national and local immunisation
programmes, including childhood, influenza, travel and routine vaccinations.
Deliver women's health services including cervical
cytology and contraception advice within competence.
Undertake wound care, dressings, treatment of minor
injuries, and removal of sutures and staples.
Ensure accurate, contemporaneous and legally compliant
clinical record keeping.
Work within professional scope of practice and
recognise when referral to a GP or other clinician is required.
A registered nurse with appropriate qualifications is responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population.
The practice nurse will be responsible for several clinical areas such as health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, well women and well man clinics, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.
Strategic management & planning
- Keep abreast of current affairs and identify potential threats and opportunities
- Contribute to Practice strategy; formulate objectives and research and develop ideas for future Practice development
- Work with Partners and Practice Manager in planning and setting strategic targets
- To undertake required tasks to meet the agreed aims and be wholly responsible for them
- Develop and maintain effective communication both within the Practice and with relevant outside agencies
- 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
- Provide vaccination and travel medicine services, including childhood, adult and travel vaccinations
- Provide wound care - ulcer /Doppler etc. to patients, including dressings
- Request pathology services as necessary
Process pathology results as required
Provide chronic disease clinics and Maintain skills and an interest in Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Spirometry, Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke-TIA and Contraception.
- Delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary specialist care as required
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
- Ensure read codes are used effectively
- Maintain chronic disease registers
- Implement and promote health during NHS Healthchecks
- Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children and travel
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs to the appropriate services
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines within own scope of practice
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- Maintain baby immunisation results records
- Maintain smears results logs
- Maintain emergency drug kit and log sheets
- Manage daily fridge temperatures and log sheets, and be aware of the cold chain procedures
- Secondary Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
- Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients
- Assist GPs with minor surgery when required
- Chaperone patients where necessary
- Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
- Liaise with external services including specialist nursing teams and agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients)
- Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual
- Understand practice and local policies
- Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle
- Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation, and disposal of medicines
- Support junior members of the nursing team, providing guidance when necessary
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
- Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
- Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
- Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis
Other tasks will include
- Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs
- Maintaining Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required
- Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
- Assisting with the ordering of vaccinations, dressings and equipment to maintain stock levels
- A duty to advise senior nurses of potential problems or errors within the range of assigned tasks
- Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required.
- A requirement to undertake patient and Care home visits
- Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
Administrative and professional responsibilities
Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team.
Attend and contribute to relevant internal and external meetings as
required including practice clinical meetings, nurse team meeting and
care planning meetings
Maintain a personal progress and training plan to keep up to date with
current thinking and developments, as well as identifying own training
requirements, attending appropriate courses
Promote evidence-based practice through use of latest research based
guidelines
Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through quality
assurance strategies such as the use of peer audit and review
Maintain professional registration, including revalidating as required
Work within the latest NMC Code of Professional Conduct
Record accurate consultation date in patients records in accordance with
NMC guidance and other standards
Administering of injections as per local PGDs
Reviewing and signing PGS and keep up to date with revisions
Keep up to date with pertinent health policy and work with the practice
team to consider the impact and strategies for implementation
Work collaboratively with colleagues both internally and externally
Demonstrate leadership
Use technology and appropriate software packages as an aid to the
planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and
communicating information
Act as a role model in the observance of equality and diversity good
practice
Knowledge and Understanding of Child protection framework/guidelines
Ensure accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes on the clinical computer system as appropriate.
Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the Practice.
Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports.
Assist in the routine recall of patients with chronic diseases.
Assist in the formulation of Practice philosophy, strategy and policy and develop appropriate protocols.
Centre is a friendly, forward-thinking GP practice with approximately 7,800
patients, cared for by an effective, dedicated and comprehensive primary
healthcare team. Our multidisciplinary workforce includes GPs, Practice Nurses,
Healthcare Assistants, Clinical Pharmacists, Physiotherapists, Social
Prescribers, Paramedics, and Reception and Administration Teams.
We are part of
the MWEB Primary Care Network , working collaboratively with Moulton
Surgery, Kingsthorpe Surgery, Denton Village Surgery and Woodview Medical
Centre to enhance patient services and improve health outcomes across our local
population.
Medical Centre, our culture is built on caring, collaboration and mutual
respect. We are a close-knit team with an open and honest ethos, where every
member of staff is valued, supported and encouraged to contribute ideas. We
believe that the best patient care is delivered when colleagues work together,
feel heard and are empowered to develop their skills and careers.
To provide the
highest quality primary healthcare to our patients in a safe and supportive
environment, with clinical excellence at the heart of everything we do, whilst
working within local and national governance, guidelines and regulations.
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing degree or equivalent experience
- Registered Nurse (NMC)
- Evidence of immunisation training and assessment of competence in last 2 years
- 6 months relevant experience working in a primary care environment in the last 2 years
- Experience of chronic disease management
- Immunisations (flu, routine, childhood, B12, travel)
- Wound Care / Treatment of small injuries / Removal of sutures & staples
- Womens health (Cervical cytology, contraception, etc.)
- Dressings
- Diabetes review
- Hypertension
- Cardiovascular disease primary prevention
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
- Understanding of Extended brief interventions (NICE guidelines)
- Cytology certificates
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Strong IT skills
- Clear, polite telephone manner
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma or degree (Primary Care)
- NMCs 'Academic Assessors', 'Practice Supervisors', and 'Practice Assessors accreditations
- Travel medicine
- Mental Health
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals
- Chaperone procedure
- Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
- Asthma
- Spirometry
- Understands the importance of evidence-based practice
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies
- Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
- Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
- Experience with clinical risk management
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First seen
12 October 2026
Last checked
14 October 2026
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