# Practice Nurse

**Company**: Health Partners at Violet Melchett
**Location**: Chelsea, London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Health Partners At Violet Melchett are looking for a practice nurse for our busy 11,000 patient GP practice. Alongside traditional GP services we offer a range of community services and activities so your job will be busy and varied. You will be based at our premises just off the Kings Road, Chelsea SW3.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide core nursing services, including health promotion activities such as smoking cessation, weight management, dietary and exercise advice

- Offer sexual health and contraception services, cervical cytology, childhood immunisations, travel health, and blood taking

- Assess and care for patients presenting with wounds, and remove all types of skin closure materials

- See patients for urgent and opportunistic nursing care, new patient checks, and NHS health checks (vascular risk)

- Demonstrate and teach patients principles of care and procedures, working towards their independence and self-care

- Administer drugs and vaccines by any route, according to NMC, practice, and NHS England guidelines

**Extended role of nurses**

- Manage long-term conditions, including annual reviews for cardio-renal metabolic, asthma and COPD, hypertension, and heart disease

- Provide minor ailments and ECGs

**Responsibilities**

- Work collaboratively with the practice team to deliver high-quality patient care

- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of clinical and administrative work

- Participate in practice meetings and discussions, and contribute to the development of clinical protocols and enhanced services

- Undertake mandatory and statutory training, and maintain your own clinical expertise

**Requirements**

- 2 years of experience working in primary care

- Registered General Nurse qualification

- Practice nurse qualification

- Knowledge of health promotion strategies and public health issues in the local area

- Ability to communicate effectively with patients and families

- Strong clinical skills, including cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination, and ear care

**Benefits**

- Permanent, full-time position

- Competitive salary depending on experience

## Skills

### Required
- clinical skills
- communication skills
- health promotion
- public health
- primary care

### Nice to have
- long-term conditions management
- minor ailments
- ECGs
- change-management skills

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