Practice Nurse

Practice Nurse post at Fenham Hall Medical Group, a GP practice, covering maternity leave for six months. The role centres on long-term condition management, cervical cytology, child immunisations, contraception and wound care, with some support for QOF work, audits and safeguarding. It is part-time over two days, with Mondays and Tuesdays preferred and flexibility possible, in a teaching practice serving around 10,800 patients.

Registration as an RGN and primary care experience are required.

• Monitor and manage long-term conditions such as diabetes, asthma, COPD and hypertension
• Carry out cervical cytology smear tests
• Give routine, child and travel immunisations and vaccinations
• Provide contraception services
• Carry out wound care and remove sutures and clips
• Perform venepuncture, bloods, swabs, urinalysis, ECGs and blood pressure checks
• Request pathology tests such as urine cultures and swabs
• Give general health advice and routine injections
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous patient records on S1
• Chaperone patients examined by other clinicians
• Support QOF/PEP achievement and take part in the surgery's MDT
• Order stock and vaccinations, maintain equipment and treatment rooms, and follow infection control

• RGN

• Experience of working in primary care

• Managing and educating patients with chronic diseases
• Childhood immunisations
• Cytology and women's health
• Travel health
• Sexual health
• Basic IT skills

• Ability to work on own initiative
• Willing to work flexible hours as necessary
• Self-directed practitioner
• Highly motivated
• Enthusiastic team player