Practice Nurse

About the Role

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on either a full-time or part-time basis, with hours and days negotiable.

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients’ health and social care needs are met.
• General health and well‑being promotion as well as creating individual, person‑centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
• Managing and treating long‑term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence‑based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
• Hypertension review and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
• New patient and health checks.

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Ideally having completed the CNO
  002 Discovering a Nursing Career in General Practice module or the Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme),however we would still be interested in those applicants with equivalent experience or qualifications.
• Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
• Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long‑term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
• Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
• Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long‑term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.
• Immunisations - up to date.

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a busy general practice based across two sites (Ambrose Avenue and Tollgate) in Colchester. We are a large, dynamic team offering a stimulating and welcoming environment, caring for over 14,000 patients. We have 4 GP partners, 2 salaried GPs, 1 ANP, 2 nurse practitioners (soon to be ANPs), 1 diabetic nurse, 2 practice nurses, 2 HCAs, 1 H&W Coach, 1 GP assistant, 1 phlebotomist, 1 clinical pharmacist, 2 pharmacy technicians, and a wonderful team of administration staff.

We use clinical systems such as Systm One, Anima and Accurx and we are committed to training and developing both clinical and non‑clinical teams.

We offer a competitive salary with appropriately agreed annual leave, according to length of service, plus bank holidays. Our ethos is to achieve and outstanding work‑life balance while offering our patients the best possible service. Supporting your work‑life balance and professional development is essential to us, so we will be happy to discuss and requirements for flexible working and offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Supportive and friendly environment
• Peer support
• CPD support with training and development.

Come and work with us and make a difference to patient care at Ambrose!

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.