Practice Nurse

Are you an enthusiastic and compassionate Practice Nurse looking to make a difference in primary care, or perhaps you're a Nurse looking for a career in primary care?

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced nurse to join our dynamic and patient-focused team at Bramblehaies Surgery, working two to three days a week, hours negotiable.

We offer a supportive, team‑orientated work environment, opportunities for training and career progression, NHS pension scheme, a competitive salary, and we encourage attendance at our daily clinical huddle, and let’s not forget the social events throughout the year.

As our Practice Nurse you’ll play a key role in delivering high quality nursing care and health promotion to our diverse patient population. You’ll work alongside a multidisciplinary team providing the following:

• Wound care, dressings, and general treatment room skills
• Urinalysis
• Contraceptive advice, family planning, sexual health
• Cytology
• Maintaining registers
• Ear syringing
• ECG
• BT, BP, height/weight
• Diet and lifestyle advice
• Immunisations (childhood, flu, pneumonia, pertussis, shingles, covid etc)
• Injections (B12, Decapeptyl, Zoladex and Depo etc)
• Travel vaccinations (only NHS)

Chronic Disease Management skills will include some or all of the following (this list is not exhaustive):

• Mental health
• Diabetes
• Asthma/COPD

Bramblehaies Surgery, in Cullompton, is a busy growing semi‑rural training practice in the heart of Devon caring for a population of 7,668 patients, providing high standards of care (CQC rating of Good) from a modern, purpose‑built building.

Our multidisciplinary team includes:

• Four GP partners
• One Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacy Tech
• Three Practice Nurses
• Three HCAs

If you are passionate about patient care and want to be part of a practice that values teamwork, innovation and wellbeing, we would love to hear from you.

• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well‑being for patients with known long‑term conditions.
• Work with other health care professionals to monitor, manage and treat long‑term conditions, including non‑drug‑based treatment methods using a management plan, and in line with national and local policies and practice needs.
• Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence‑based practice and national and local practice protocols with support from NMP or GP.
• Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultations.
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.
• Advise, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling abroad.
• Provide wound care support when necessary.

• Working independently as well as in a team environment
• Experience of infection prevention and control measures
• Experience of chronic disease management
• Experience of working as a nurse in an acute, community or practice environment

• Formal Nursing Qualification
• Registration with NMC
• Post graduate diploma or degree in a long term condition

• Wound care
• Venepuncture
• ECGs
• Requesting pathology tests and advising patients accordingly
• Immunisations (routine, childhood)
• Women's health
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Understanding of infection prevention and control measures
• Understanding the requirement for PGDs, PSDs and associated policy
• Long term condition skills and knowledge
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills (competent with Office 365, email and use of internet as a resource)
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Flexible and co‑operative
• Highly motivated, forward thinker
• Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations and deal with the unexpected!
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Effective time management, punctual
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to follow policies and procedures
• Experience with audit
• Experience with risk management

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.