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Primary Care Treatment Room Practice Nurse

The Apples Medical Centre

Sherborne, DT9 3DG

Salary

Negotiable

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

11 September 2026

11 days left

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Practice Nurse or just qualified Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team at The Apples Medical Centre on a part-t...

  • Providing

assessment, screening and treatment services and health education advice

  • Provide

nursing treatments to patients in participation with general practitioners or independently

to agreed protocols.

  • Provide

general and specific health screenings to the practice patients (within agreed

protocols) with referral to general practitioners as necessary.

  • Advise

patients on general health care and minor ailments with referral to GPs as

necessary;

  • Advise

patients on general health care and minor ailments with referral to GPs as

necessary

  • Phlebotomy
  • Dressings
  • Infection Control

To provide and

maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients, as well as providing

nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare

team. The duties will include all tasks

normally undertaken by an experienced RGN and any additional roles agreed

between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current

training.

Typical duties include

  • holding patient consultations within the surgery
  • carrying out physical examinations and tests such as cervical smear
  • treating wounds
  • applying and removing dressings
  • giving advice, education and information about stopping smoking and losing weight
  • taking patient samples, swabs and specimens, and checking pulses, temperatures and blood pressures
  • administering immunisations, travel vaccinations and infant injections
  • writing records and keeping patients notes up to date
  • assisting GPs with minor procedures.

The Apples Medical Centre is a long established five partner practice of 5624 patients within sight of both historic Sherborne Castles.

We are a modern thinking Dispensing Practice, with an emphasis on traditional continuity of care.

The Practice has a higher than average remuneration and a manageable doctor to patient ratio.

We achieve high QOF points and our latest CQC inspection rated the Practice as Good.

We have a high patient satisfaction rate and dispense to 1975 of our patient population.

We commenced with SystemConnect, in additional to our Telephone consultations and Email communication.

We offer of mixture of pre-bookable and book on the day

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered nurse with current NMC registration and active PIN

Desirable

  • Minimum 1 year experience post registration.

Experience

Desirable

  • Experience of working in primary care
  • Experience of GMS Contract and QOF requirements

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 August 2026

Last checked

25 August 2026

Salary, closing date and description are taken from the employer's advert. The original advert always takes precedence.

About the employer

TAM
The Apples Medical Centre

NHS organisation

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