Practice Nurse

We are looking for a motivated and passionate Practice Nurse with strong diabetes management experience to join our team. In this role, you will lead and support high-quality diabetes care within the practice, delivering personalised assessments, structured reviews, and ongoing clinical management for patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

You will run diabetes clinics, interpret results, develop evidence-based care plans, and provide expert guidance on lifestyle management, medication optimisation, and complication prevention. Working alongside our GPs and wider multidisciplinary team, you will play a key part in improving health outcomes, empowering patients to self-manage their condition, and contributing to practice-wide quality improvement initiatives.

Deliver high-quality nursing care including:

• Chronic disease management (Inc Diabetes Management and insulin initiation)
• Cervical cytology and women's health clinics
• Childhood and adult immunisations
• Travel health advice and vaccinations
• Wound care
• Contraceptive services (e.g. pill checks, injections)
• Coordinate administration of under Patient Group Directions (PGDs) and within scope of practice
• Provide health promotion and lifestyle advice (e.g. smoking cessation, weight management)
• Support patients in managing long-term conditions and medication adherence
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records using appropriate coding

Trinity Medical Centre is a well established and busy GP practice located in the heart of Wakefield, serving a large and diverse patient population from its Thornhill Street site. The practice provides a wide range of high quality primary care services, including chronic disease management, child immunisations, diabetes care, minor surgery, contraceptive services (including LARC), COPD and asthma clinics, and learning disability health checks.

As a forward thinking practice, Trinity Medical Centre also supports digital access, offering online triage systems, appointment booking, repeat prescription services, and remote medical advice to help patients receive timely, safe, and effective care.

Job responsibilities:

• Basic wound care / ulcer care/ doppler
• Removal of sutures
• Venepuncture
• Routine immunisations
• Chronic disease clinics
• Cytology
• Family planning
• Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs, cytology
• Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to GPs as appropriate
• Clean and maintain equipment used by the nurses and GPs
• Ordering of stock
• Ordering of vaccinations to maintain stock levels
• Participation in administrative systems in the practice
• At all times there will be a need to maintain accurate records
• Attend and participate in any practice meetings when required
• On occasion there may be a requirement to undertake home visits
• A commitment to ensure all Health and Safety requirements and Infection Control measures are met and to report any problems to the practice manager
• To work only in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and within the scope of professional practice
• To have a written professional development plan and to maintain an up to date portfolio which meets the requirements of registration with the NMC
• Cooperate with annual appraisal meetings
• Membership of the RCN
• To participate in collecting QOF data and other incentive schemes as needed by the practice, prompting other members of the team as needed in assistance in gathering the required data.
• Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post.

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their careers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any…