Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PCN Nursing Associate to join our friendly and supportive practice team. Chastleton is a long-established, successful training practice with a list size of 10500 patients, set just outside of Durham city. You will be joining us at an exciting time as we focus on adapting to the current changes within the NHS to provide the highest possible standard of holistic patient care.

Main duties of the job
The PCN Nursing Associate works alongside a team within general practice and within the Primary Care Network. The post-holder will be an integral part of the general practice team, working as and when required in each organisation and across the network. The principal task is to support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care of patients.

Please see the attached job description and person specification attached for further details.

About us
Chastleton Medical Group is a well established, forward thinking GP practice serving approximately 10,500 patients in the heart of Durham City. We are a paperless SystmOne practice with an excellent reputation for patient care, strong performance and a supportive team culture.

Date posted: 04 November 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: Depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: A5721-26-0011
Closing date: 09 December 2026

Job responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, compassionate care whilst undertaking specific clinical and care tasks under the direction of a registered nurse (or other registered care professional dependent on PCN) with a focus on promoting good health and independence
• Provide high-quality holistic and person-centred care to individuals
• Provide routine care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required
• Work as part of the PCNs MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision
• Improve safety and quality of care at every opportunity
• Contribute to the delivery of integrated care
• Work with the PCN MDT to ensure the delivery of Nursing Associate duties complements the existing workforce
• Work with a supervisor to take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace and enable the Nursing Associate to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present
• Provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices and those on learning assignments/placements as required
• Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care
• Develop relationships across the MDT to support the integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care and mental health
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data is appropriately recorded with SNOMED codes
• Perform and record clinical observations, including appropriate coding, such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse
• After undertaking additional training, provide flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required by the PCN in line with the competencies of the role
• Promote the health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check
• Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients
• Provide support during minor operations as required
• Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to personalised care colleagues and local community and voluntary sector services
• Communicate proactively and effectively with all MDT colleagues across the PCN, attending and contributing to meetings as required
• Be aware of duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhere to practice policies and procedures on Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children
• Process pathology results as required
• Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service
• Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance
• Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed
• Contribute towards public health and screening programmes, including immunisations and vaccinations, including the childhood immunisation programme
• Support and deliver health promotion and wellbeing programmes including any opportunistic delivery
• Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area
• Be an integral part of the general practice team, working in each practice and across the PCN, as well as supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team
• Recognise boundaries of own practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems
• Provide supervision to student Nurse Associates
• Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the PCN
• Support in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through incidents and near-miss events
• Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes
• There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels

Essential qualifications

• Registered nursing associate and on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register
• Meets the specific qualification and training requirements as specified in the Nursing Midwifery Standards of proficiency by having undertaken and completed the two-year Foundation Degree delivered by a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) approved provider

Essential experience and other requirements

• Ability to work effectively as a team player under appropriate supervision and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
• Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in the context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation and how the role may contribute to service development
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational Health clearance
• Meet the requirements and produce evidence for revalidation
• Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis

Desirable

• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of quality initiatives, i.e., benchmarking
• Knowledge of IT systems including the ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• Good clinical system IT knowledge
• Chaperone experience
• Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
• Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and healthcare support workers as required within the clinical setting

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Chastleton Medical Group
Address: Chastleton Medical Group, Newton Drive, Durham, DH1 5BH, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.chastletonmedicalgroup.co.uk/

For questions about the job, contact: Business Manager Victoria Reed, nencicb-cd.a83036-eds@nhs.net, 01913846171

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