Job summary
We are looking for a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Practice Nurse to join our friendly and supportive healthcare team.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced General Practice Nurse to join a busy practice and play an important role in providing high-quality, patient-centred care. You will work closely with the wider practice team to support the health and wellbeing of our patients, contribute to clinical quality and help deliver safe, effective and evidence-based care.

We are looking for someone who is confident, caring and committed to developing their skills within primary care.

Main duties of the job
Essential;

• Minimum 1 year GPN experience
• Womens Health
• Respiratory/Diabetes/LTC experience

Desirable;

• Treatment Room including Catheter care, Dopplers, Baby Imms, Travel Health
• Learning Disabilities

About us
The Petroc Group Practice has 4 sites, Padstow, St Columb Major, St Merryn and St Columb Road.

We are a dispensing practice based in north Cornwall in quite a rural setting. On the beautiful, and hard to beat, north Cornwall coast, we are no Doc Martin. With a population of just over 16,000 we are keen to provide our patients with the services they need, improve patient outcomes and to give continuity of care.

We are a friendly and supportive team, with lots of experienced members of staff that are on hand for advice and assistance.

We have a varied group of clinicians, with GP Partners, salaried GPs, Medical students and Registrars, sitting alongside Paramedics, Social Prescribers, Clinical Pharmacist, ANP's, HCA's and all our dispensers, admin and secretarial teams.

Job responsibilities
Practice Nurse
Petroc Group Practice

We are looking for a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Practice Nurse to join our friendly and supportive healthcare team.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced General Practice Nurse to join a busy practice and play an important role in providing high-quality, patient-centred care. You will work closely with the wider practice team to support the health and wellbeing of our patients, contribute to clinical quality and help deliver safe, effective and evidence-based care.

We are looking for someone who is confident, caring and committed to developing their skills within primary care.

About the Role
As a Practice Nurse, you will provide a broad range of nursing services to our practice population. You will work as part of the nursing and multidisciplinary team, supporting the delivery of chronic disease management, preventative healthcare, treatment room services and health promotion.

The role will provide opportunities to develop your existing skills and undertake additional training where appropriate, depending on your experience and the needs of the practice.

Key Clinical Responsibilities
Your duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Providing high-quality, evidence-based nursing care to patients.
• Supporting the practice in achieving clinical quality indicators and targets.
• Providing care and monitoring for patients with long-term conditions, including diabetes and respiratory disease.
• Providing women's health services.
• Undertaking wound assessment, treatment and ongoing management in line with local and national guidance and the practice wound care formulary.
• Carrying out venepuncture and appropriate clinical observations, including blood pressure, weight, height and BMI.
• Performing ECGs and, where trained, ambulatory blood pressure and 24-hour ECG monitoring.
• Administering intramuscular and subcutaneous injections, including vaccinations and other prescribed therapies.
• Providing adult and childhood immunisation services in accordance with appropriate PGDs/PSDs and practice procedures.
• Supporting travel health and vaccination services following appropriate training.
• Providing general treatment room services, including wound care and injections.
• Providing cervical screening following appropriate training.
• Undertaking NHS health checks and learning disability health checks for eligible patients, where appropriately trained.
• Providing sexual health services, including pill checks and discussions around long-term contraception, and assisting with coil and implant clinics where appropriately trained.
• Performing INR checks for patients receiving warfarin, following appropriate training.
• Supporting minor injury services and assisting GPs with minor surgery.
• Recognising and responding appropriately to clinical emergencies, including patient collapse, hypo/hyperglycaemia, asthma attacks and anaphylaxis.
• Maintaining effective infection prevention and control procedures, including the safe handling of specimens, clinical waste, blood and bodily fluids and sharps.
• Recognising and responding appropriately to safeguarding concerns involving children, families and vulnerable adults.

Experience and QualificationsEssential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Minimum one year's experience working as a General Practice Nurse.
• Experience in:
• Women's health
• Respiratory disease
• Diabetes
• Long-term condition management
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Commitment to providing compassionate, inclusive and patient-centred care.
• Commitment to continuing professional development and maintaining clinical competence.

Desirable
Experience or training in:

• Treatment room nursing
• Wound care
• Catheter care
• Doppler assessment and compression therapy
• Childhood immunisations
• Travel health
• Learning disability health checks
• Cervical screening
• INR monitoring
• Sexual health and contraception
• Minor injuries and minor surgery

Training and development opportunities may be available for the right candidate where additional skills are required.

Working as Part of Our Team
You will work closely with GPs, practice nurses, healthcare assistants and other members of the multidisciplinary team. This may include liaising with services such as diabetic specialist nurses, tissue viability teams, paramedics and social prescribers to ensure patients receive appropriate and coordinated care.

You will be encouraged to contribute to:

• Nursing and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Clinical audit and quality improvement.
• Practice research and development initiatives where appropriate.
• Educational and practice meetings.
• The development and review of clinical standards and processes.
• Sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues within the practice team.

Professional Development
We are committed to supporting our nurses to maintain and develop their skills.

You will be expected to:

• Take responsibility for your own continuing professional development.
• Keep up to date with current evidence, national guidance and developments in primary care.
• Complete mandatory training and relevant study days or courses.
• Participate in annual appraisal.
• Maintain appropriate evidence and documentation for NMC revalidation.
• Identify opportunities to develop new skills in response to patient and practice needs.
• Support the training and development of colleagues where appropriate.

Quality, Safety and Patient Care
Patient safety and high-quality care are central to the role. You will be expected to:

• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records.
• Work within practice policies, protocols, PGDs and relevant professional guidance.
• Recognise and report risks, incidents, near misses and hazards.
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with information governance and records management requirements.
• Follow health and safety and infection prevention and control procedures.
• Treat patients, carers and colleagues with dignity, respect and compassion.
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusion and ensure that patients' individual needs, beliefs and preferences are respected.
• Support patients to make informed choices and participate in decisions about their care.
• Work within your professional scope of practice and seek support or refer appropriately when required.

The Person We Are Looking For
We are looking for a nurse who is:

• Compassionate and patient-focused
• Confident and clinically competent
• Organised and able to manage their own workload
• A good communicator and team player
• Committed to evidence-based practice
• Enthusiastic about learning and developing professionally
• Able to recognise and manage clinical risk appropriately
• Flexible and willing to develop new skills in response to the needs of the practice

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their role through additional training and skills acquisition. This may include areas such as childhood immunisations, cervical screening and health checks, depending on the needs of the practice and agreed development plan.

Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to become a valued member of a supportive primary care team where your contribution can make a real difference to patients and the wider practice population.

We welcome nurses who are keen to use their existing experience while continuing to learn, develop and broaden their clinical skills.

If you are an enthusiastic Practice Nurse looking for a rewarding role within a busy and supportive general practice, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Work Location: In person

Person Specification
Other Criteria
Essential

• Compassionate, approachable, and patient-focused.
• Can work independently and within a team
• Flexible and adaptable to the changing needs of the practice

Qualifications
Essential

• Minimum 1 year GPN experience.

Experience
Desirable

• Women's Health
• Respiratory/Diabetes
• Treatment Room including - Catheter Care, Dopplers, Baby Imms and Travel Health
• Experience in EMIS and ICE

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 (opens in a new window).

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.