Practice Nurse
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,594.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35594.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS10 3NB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A3278-25-0005 |
Summary
MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB To lead a nursing team, responsible for ensuring that the practice provides an optimum service of nursing care relevant to the patient population; working to agreed protocols. Main duties and responsibilities to include the following: MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Meeting patients nursing care needs as identified, or where care has been transferred to the nurse by a GP. This will usually be in the surgery but occasional home visits may also be required. Initiating and maintaining health screening and promotion clinics for identified areas of the practice population, recognizing where modification of systems or referral is necessary. Managing the nursing care of patients with chronic disease. Accurate and efficient input of data for GMS contract purposes is also required. Prescribing Ideally have the prescribing qualification, or be prepared to work towards it. Long Term Conditions Nurses to be qualified in at least two of the following long-term conditions one of which ideally diabetes, or be prepared to study diabetes: Diabetes Initiates the process of diagnosis of patients with suspected diabetes Manages patients newly diagnosed with diabetes under protocols Undertakes annual review of patients understanding and ability to self-manage Refers to dieticians, chiropodist and diabetes and specialist nurses Maintains a disease register Audits outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary Cardiovascular Disease: Works with patients to set action plans for changes of lifestyle Provides support for patients by assessing interventions and treatments Respiratory Care: Manages newly diagnosed patients with asthma and COPD Maintains a disease register Work within agreed local guidelines to manage patients with asthma, aiding diagnosis, reviewing inhaler technique and advising on treatment changes Clinical Nursing Practice: Assess, plan, provide and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of individuals and groups in the practice population Assess, diagnose and treat specific diseases in accordance with agreed medical/nursing protocols Undertake diagnostic, health screening, health surveillance and therapeutic interventions within a broader health promotion/public health strategy Wound care including compression Womens health including cervical screening and contraception Care and Programme Management: Develop profile of the practice population in order to initiate, contribute and promote improved health and prevent disease in individuals and groups Initiate and carry out programmes of health screening Manage programmes of care for patients with acute and chronic diseases by planning, providing and evaluating care Support and enable individuals, carers, groups and communities to take action to meet their priorities for health Vaccinations and immunisations of babies, children and adults.