# Practice Nurse **Company**: Glyndon Medical Centre **Location**: Plumstead **Job type**: part-time **Salary**: Depending on experience **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A4370-26-0005?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3eee8e17-58b ## Description We are seeking an enthusiastic Practice Nurse to join our friendly, supportive, and forward-thinking team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality patient care, promoting healthy lifestyles, and supporting individuals to achieve the best possible health outcomes while helping shape the future of our practice. Working as part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team, you will bring previous experience in practice nursing and a sound understanding of the general practice environment. You will be a skilled and compassionate clinician, able to demonstrate competence in long-term condition management, childhood and routine immunisations, travel vaccinations, wound care, and cervical screening. This is a 25-hour per week position, working Monday, Thursday, and Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm, with participation in a monthly late-night clinic until 8:00pm. **Main Duties and Responsibilities** - Deliver high-quality nursing care within your scope of professional practice. - Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care. - Perform a range of clinical procedures, including venepuncture, blood pressure monitoring, immunisations, cervical screening, wound care, and other nursing interventions, in line with practice policies, clinical guidelines, and patient needs. - Provide health promotion and lifestyle advice to support patient wellbeing and disease prevention. - Maintain accurate, timely, and contemporaneous clinical records within the patient record system. - Recognise and respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns, significant events, and clinical emergencies. **Long-Term Condition Management** - Support the assessment, monitoring, and management of patients with long-term conditions, including diabetes, asthma, COPD, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. - Undertake structured reviews and follow-up appointments in line with practice protocols and national guidance. - Contribute to achieving Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) targets through proactive patient management and recall systems. - Support the delivery of clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives relating to long-term condition management. - Promote self-management and patient education to improve health outcomes and encourage healthy lifestyle choices. **Vaccinations and Immunisations** - Deliver childhood and adult immunisation programmes. - Administer seasonal vaccination programmes, including flu and COVID-19 vaccinations where applicable. - Provide travel health advice and vaccinations where trained to do so. **Health Promotion and Prevention** - Promote healthy lifestyles and wellbeing. - Support national screening and public health programmes. - Provide advice on smoking cessation, weight management, exercise, and healthy living. **Patient Services** - Provide contraceptive and sexual health advice within competency. - Support family planning services where appropriately trained. - Participate in patient recall systems and health reviews. - Signpost patients to appropriate services and support. **Clinical Governance** - Maintain accurate, contemporaneous, and confidential patient records. - Ensure clinical coding is completed appropriately. - Participate in clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives. - Adhere to practice policies, procedures, and professional standards. **Team Working** - Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, pharmacists, social prescribers, and administrative staff. - Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings. - Support colleagues and contribute to a positive team culture. **Professional Responsibilities** - Maintain active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). - Comply with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct. - Participate in appraisal, mandatory training, and continuing professional development. - Maintain clinical competence and keep up to date with current evidence-based practice. - Adhere to safeguarding, confidentiality, and information governance requirements. ## Skills ### Required - long-term condition management - childhood and routine immunisations - travel vaccinations - wound care - cervical screening - health promotion - lifestyle advice - patient care - clinical procedures - venepuncture - blood pressure monitoring - immunisations - nursing interventions - practice policies - clinical guidelines - patient needs - safeguarding concerns - significant events - clinical emergencies - diabetes - asthma - COPD - hypertension - cardiovascular disease - structured reviews - follow-up appointments - practice protocols - national guidance - QOF targets - proactive patient management - recall systems - clinical audits - quality improvement initiatives - self-management - patient education - healthy lifestyle choices - childhood and adult immunisation programmes - seasonal vaccination programmes - flu and COVID-19 vaccinations - travel health advice - vaccinations - healthy lifestyles - wellbeing - national screening - public health programmes - smoking cessation - weight management - exercise - healthy living - contraceptive and sexual health advice - family planning services - patient recall systems - health reviews - signposting patients - appropriate services - support - accurate and contemporaneous clinical records - clinical coding - multidisciplinary team meetings - positive team culture - NMC registration - NMC Code of Professional Conduct - appraisal - mandatory training - continuing professional development - clinical competence - evidence-based practice - safeguarding - confidentiality - information governance ### Nice to have - Independent Prescribing qualification - experience leading long-term condition clinics - participating in clinical audits - service improvement projects - supporting QOF achievement - population health management initiatives - training or mentoring nursing or healthcare assistant colleagues - working within Primary Care Networks (PCNs) - multidisciplinary teams - knowledge of national screening programmes - public health initiatives - population health management - proactive patient care - enhanced services - local commissioning requirements - digital consultation tools --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A4370-26-0005?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)