Practice Nurse

Combe Coastal Practice, the largest GP practice in North Devon with 18,000 registered patients, is recruiting a practice nurse for 20 hours a week. The work centres on treatment room care, covering immunisations, travel vaccinations, health checks, wound care and cervical screening, within a multi-disciplinary team. It is a teaching practice with 12 GP partners and eight salaried GPs, with branch surgeries alongside the main site.

Fit depends on current NMC registration, a cervical cytology qualification and at least two years' post-registration experience.

• Provide safe, effective and compassionate care and support to patients
• Deliver treatment room care, including health checks, child and adult immunisations, travel vaccinations, wound care and cervical screening
• Give pre-travel health advice, including malaria prophylaxis and vaccinations
• Carry out procedures such as venepuncture, BP management, urinalysis, pregnancy testing, ECGs, cervical cytology, Doppler checks, suture removal, ear care and syringing
• Store, rotate and dispose of vaccines and drugs safely, and keep stock levels up, including ordering vaccines
• Chaperone and support doctors for minor surgery and procedures such as coil fittings
• Promote health and wellbeing, advising on diet, contraception, smoking, chronic disease management and exercise
• Start and deliver health screening programmes agreed with the practice clinical team
• Give prescribed therapies, monitor for side effects and work with key workers for mental health patients
• Maintain infection control, spillage control, decontamination and safe sharps management
• Keep accurate records under NMC rules and meet data protection requirements, with safeguarding awareness
• Prioritise and manage own workload, contributing to the practice's PMS and QOF obligations

• Adult nursing degree or diploma
• Cervical cytology qualification
• Phlebotomy qualification
• Basic life support skills
• Up-to-date childhood immunisation training

• Current NMC registration

• At least two years post-registration
• Working in a primary care environment
• Experience with vulnerable patients
• Experience in health promotion

• Trained to deliver treatment room care
• Competence in anaphylaxis and resuscitation techniques

• Post-registration study in topics allied to general practice
• Experience working with the Systm One clinical system