Practice Nurse

City Way Surgery is a friendly, forward-thinking GP practice looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Practice Nurse to join our supportive clinical team.

You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care, working closely with GPs, HCAs, and the wider primary care team. This is a varied and rewarding position suited to a nurse who enjoys autonomy as well as teamwork.

• Chronic disease management (e.g. asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension)
• Cervical screening and women's health
• Immunisations and vaccinations
• Wound care and dressings
• Health promotion and patient education
• Infection prevention and control
• Supporting QOF and enhanced services

• Registered Nurse (NMC)
• Experience working in primary care or general practice (preferred)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• A proactive, compassionate approach to patient care

• Supportive and welcoming team environment
• Flexible working options
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Modern, well-equipped practice
• Opportunity to make a real difference in the local community

Management of chronic disease

• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals

Therapeutic monitoring

• Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using an holistic patient-centred approach
• Recognising abnormalities
• Identifying the impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.

Wound Care and management

• Assessing routine wounds including trauma
• Assessing [and prescribing] to support good wound management in complex situations (e.g. use of Doppler technique)
• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues
• Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified
• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs; domesticviolence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)

Health screening

• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. womens and mens health, sexual health, older people)
• Undertaking monitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate
• Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.

Travel health

• Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines
• Identifying problems
• Provision of specialist and evidence-based support to the team.

Immunisation (adult and child)

• Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues.
• Providing Contraception services
• Providing a nursing care and performing reviews of patients with Learning Disability

A more detailed job description will be provided at a later stage

• NMC Registered Nurse
• experience in general practice and dealing with long term conditions

• experience in working for NHS
• experience in working in a GP practice

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.