# Practice Nurse

**Company**: Wapping Group Practice
**Location**: London
**Salary**: Dependent on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Wapping Group Practice is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a Practice Nurse to join our well-established, friendly and innovative team.

We are seeking a qualified Practice Nurse to join us on a permanent part-time or full-time basis, working 24 to 37.5 hours per week over 3 to 5 days.

The role will involve a broad range of primary care nursing duties, including:

- Cervical screening (cytology)

- Wound care

- Suture and clip removal

- Asthma and COPD management

- Diabetes management

- Childhood and DES immunisations

- Requesting pathology tests

- Assessment, monitoring and management of long-term conditions

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with GPs, clinicians and the wider practice team to provide high-quality, patient-centred care and ensure the health and wellbeing needs of our patients are met.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Clinical and Treatment Room Duties

- Provide a broad range of clinical services, including wound assessment, treatment and ongoing wound management, removal of sutures and clips, administration of routine injections and vaccinations, cervical screening (cytology) in accordance with national guidance, taking and recording blood pressure, pulse, oxygen saturation and other clinical observations.

- Long-Term Condition Management

- Contribute to the assessment, monitoring and management of patients with long-term conditions, including diabetes, asthma, COPD, hypertension, cardiovascular disease.

- Health Promotion and Preventative Care

- Support the development and delivery of preventative health and health promotion programmes, including cervical screening and appropriate follow-up, childhood and adult immunisation programmes, travel vaccinations and travel health advice.

- Immunisation and Vaccination Programmes

- Administer childhood, adult, travel and other appropriate vaccinations within competence, support the planning and delivery of vaccination programmes.

- Infection Prevention and Control

- Maintain high standards of infection prevention and control within clinical practice, following practice infection prevention and control policies and procedures.

- Emergency Equipment and Medicines

- Support the safe management of clinical emergency equipment and medicines, checking emergency equipment and emergency medicines in accordance with practice procedures.

- Advice, Signposting and Referrals

- Provide appropriate telephone and face-to-face clinical advice, signpost patients to appropriate services and reliable sources of health information.

- Safeguarding

- Complete safeguarding training appropriate to role, understand and comply with practice safeguarding policies and procedures.

- Clinical Governance, Quality and Audit

- Support the achievement of contractual and quality targets, reviewing clinical outcomes and identifying opportunities for improvement.

- Team Working and Leadership

- Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, pharmacists, administrative staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

- Administration and Organisation

- Contribute to the effective organisation of nursing services, maintaining accurate and timely clinical documentation.

- Professional Development

- Take responsibility for maintaining and developing professional knowledge and skills.

**About Us:** Wapping Group Practice is located on Wapping High Street, just a two-minute walk from Wapping London Overground Station, providing excellent transport links.

**Benefits:** We offer excellent opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD) and encourage staff to develop their skills and experience throughout their career with us.

**Salary:** Competitive and dependent on experience.

## Skills

### Required
- cervical screening
- wound care
- asthma management
- diabetes management
- immunisations
- infection prevention and control

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