# Practice Nurse

**Company**: Swiss Cottage Surgery
**Location**: London
**Job type**: full-time, part-time
**Salary**: £22 an hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Practice Nurse to join our friendly and supportive GP practice in Swiss Cottage. The successful candidate will provide high-quality nursing care to our patient population.

The role involves core nursing duties including smear tests, child and travel immunisations, wound care, assisting in minor surgery clinics, governance tasks, and recall processes. Experience in undertaking diabetes checks, Asthma annual reviews, COPD monitoring, Smoking Cessation, and Family Planning advice is preferable.

Responsibilities:

- Assess patients, plan and deliver nursing care, review outcomes, and seek GP advice or refer when needs exceed the scope of the role.

- Undertake long-term condition reviews, including diabetes and hypertension, and other condition reviews within competence and agreed protocols; support patients with self-management.

- Deliver adult, childhood, and travel immunisations, including travel health advice, using appropriate authorisation such as Patient Group Directions or Patient Specific Directions.

- Perform cervical screening and relevant swabs, following screening programme requirements; explain procedures, obtain consent, and arrange appropriate follow-up.

- Provide wound assessment and dressings, suture and clip removal, phlebotomy, blood pressure checks, urinalysis, and sample collection and processing.

- Undertake NHS Health Checks and provide health promotion advice, including smoking cessation, healthy eating, and physical activity.

- Assist with minor surgery and provide chaperoning when required; recognise deterioration and respond to clinical emergencies within training.

- Maintain accurate, timely clinical records and coding; support patient call and recall, results follow-up, and continuity of care.

Person Specification:

- Clinical skills and knowledge: Competence in phlebotomy, wound care, cervical screening, adult and childhood immunisations, and travel health advice / vaccinations. Knowledge of health promotion, long-term condition care, infection prevention and control, safeguarding, and clinical governance.

- Qualifications: Registered Nurse (Adult / RGN) with current NMC registration. Recognised cervical screening training and current sample taker registration / number. Relevant immunisation training and competence, including childhood immunisations.

- Experience: Experience working as a nurse in an NHS GP practice. Experience of independent nursing consultations with adults and children, including working with families and carers. Experience of long-term condition reviews and use of clinical protocols.

Benefits:

- Permanent contract

- Salary: £22 an hour

- Full-time position (37.5 hours per week) but part-time hours will be considered

## Skills

### Required
- phlebotomy
- wound care
- cervical screening
- immunisations
- health promotion
- long-term condition care
- infection prevention and control
- safeguarding
- clinical governance

### Nice to have
- diabetes checks
- Asthma annual reviews
- COPD monitoring
- Smoking Cessation
- Family Planning advice
- respiratory disease management

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