Job Description

We are a busy city centre medical practice offering outstanding patient care, and we have an exciting opportunity for a Practice Nurse to join our Nursing Team to provide primary health care to our patient population.

We are a dual-site practice, based between St Stephens Gate Medical Centre and Newmarket Road surgery, and provide care for over 19,000 patients. We consistently receive excellent patient feedback, and this role is integral to ensuring that the practice provides an outstanding level of nursing care and maintaining this.

We are looking for individuals with Primary Care Nursing skills and experience, and a willingness to develop other skills that they don't already have. This role is integral to ensuring that the practice provides an outstanding level of nursing care.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

To deliver a high standard of patient care as a Practice Nurse in general practice, using advanced autonomous clinical skills, and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base

To manage a clinical caseload, dealing with presenting patient's needs in a primary care setting

To lead and develop high quality patient care to meet the holistic health care needs of a practice population

To develop the nursing services offered by the practice

Diabetes experience would be desirable.

JOB DIMENSIONS

To manage own clinical workload in general practice responding effectively to patient need and ensuring patient choice and ease of access to services.

The development and use of referral pathways to the local acute NHS Trust services and to Diagnostic and Treatment Centres (where relevant).

To mentor and support other nurses in developing and maintaining clinical skills (where applicable)

You would be joining a practice with a supportive admin team, friendly clinicians and a commitment to developing new ways of working across the whole practice.

As well as being part of a supportive and welcoming team, benefits for the candidate include:

An attractive city centre location A culture of continuous learning, training and improvement - as a training practice, we have a real focus on training and development for our staff A generous annual leave package of six weeks annual leave, plus Bank Holidays, pro rata NHS pension
Parking is not available on site, but we do offer subsidised city centre parking permits that can be used anytime on a waiting list basis.

Ideally we would be looking for full time hours, but we would be happy to discuss.

Please apply with a brief letter explaining why you would like to join us with your CV. Please note, we will only look at your CV if it includes a letter due to the volume of applications we generally receive.

We regret that due to the number of applications we receive we will only contact you if you have been shortlisted for interview.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

Benefits:

Additional leave Company pension Transport links
Experience:

Practice Nurse: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:

NMC pin (required)
Work Location: In person