Experienced Practice Nurse; Upper Gordon Road Surgery

Experienced Practice Nurse (Upper Gordon Road Surgery)

Upper Gordon Road Surgery is seeking a motivated and compassionate Practice Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high‑quality patient care, supporting chronic disease management, and promoting health and wellbeing within our local community and supporting the wider multidisciplinary team.

• Deliver high standards of nursing care to patients within the practice setting
• Undertake chronic disease management including asthma, COPD, diabetes, and hypertension reviews
• Carry out cervical cytology (smears) in line with national screening programmes
• Administer immunisations and vaccinations (including childhood and travel vaccines)
• Perform wound care, dressings, and removal of sutures
• Conduct health promotion and lifestyle advice clinics (e.g. smoking cessation, weight management)
• Carry out NHS health checks and screening programmes
• Assist in infection prevention and control, including maintaining clinical standards and audit processes
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous patient records in accordance with NHS and practice policies
• Support GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team in delivering patient care
• Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, and practice meetings
• Ensure safe management of clinical stock, vaccines, and equipment
• Contribute to safeguarding processes for vulnerable adults and children

Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, serving over 104,000 patients across Surrey Heath. Within our federation, we hold the GMS contract for Upper Gordon Road Surgery, a highly regarded, patient‑centred practice with a list size of 11,000+.

About Upper Gordon Road Surgery:

The practice is supported by a strong, diverse and experienced clinical team, including:

• Paramedics
• An Advanced Nurse Practitioner
• A dedicated Nursing team

Alongside the onsite team, the practice benefits from the federation's central management support across operations, HR, finance, governance and senior clinical leadership creating a resilient collaborative environment that enables clinicians to focus on delivering high‑quality patient care.

These are the core responsibilities of this role. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, dependent on workload and staffing levels.

• Experience of working with healthcare professionals and/or previous experience in the NHS or social care
• Understanding of local and national NHS policy
• Understanding of Clinical Governance within primary care
• Previous experience in cervical cytology screening
• Previous experience working as a practice nurse in primary care

• 4 GCSEs (C and above) including English and Maths or equivalent
• NMC Registration
• Up‑to‑date training in immunisation and cervical screening
• Postgraduate diploma or degree in primary care

• Competent in treatment room procedures: wound care, ECGs, phlebotomy, immunisations and cervical screening
• Managing patients with long term conditions such as: diabetes, asthma, COPD, hypertension
• Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.