Practice Nurse - Level 5
| Posting date: | 21 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,168 to £37,934 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 July 2025 |
| Location: | Lancashire, North West England |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Bay Medical Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
This role requires consolidation of registrant standards of competence and developing confidence to work alone without direct supervision, undertaking and reporting on autonomous decisions made in practice. It is expected that all newly registered staff or those moving to a general practice setting will have a period of preceptorship. This role requires a developing knowledge of practice nursing in the broadest sense, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills to support patients with a wide range of conditions to understand and , where possible, take on self management of their condition. The role requires resilience and the ability to be flexible and adaptable whilst working in General Practice or people's homes and other community settings. Level 5 nurses will be working as part of a primary/community nursing team and will have some responsibility for supervising less experienced or qualified staff and students in community placements. They will be expected to actively contribute to quality assurance processes and service development.
Ability to assess patients, taking into account their physical, mental and social status alongside the impact of their environment and social support available to them and negotiating care plans that are person centred and focused on self-care with clear objectives
Using a range of assessment tools pertinent to the patients needs to inform the assessment and assess risk for both patients and staff
Articulation of risk and strategy for risk management
Knowledge of a broad range of conditions, local care pathways and evidence based management experienced by patients in community and general practice settings. This will include LTCs, for example diabetes, coronary heart disease, heart failure, hypertension and stroke, COPD, arthritis, dementia and other common mental illnesses, frailty, and palliative and end of life care
An understanding of the presentations of multiple pathology, depression and anxiety states and frailty predominantly in older people
Knowledge of the management of uncomplicated symptoms in those patients with palliative or terminal care needs and enhanced communication skills to confidently manage uncertainty
Role model the values expected in Compassion in Practice (2014), ensuring that patient, family and carer feedback supports that care received was compassionate
Ensuring information is recorded objectively and reported back to the community or general practice nursing team
Ability to assess patients, taking into account their physical, mental and social status alongside the impact of their environment and social support available to them and negotiating care plans that are person centred and focused on self-care with clear objectives
Using a range of assessment tools pertinent to the patients needs to inform the assessment and assess risk for both patients and staff
Articulation of risk and strategy for risk management
Knowledge of a broad range of conditions, local care pathways and evidence based management experienced by patients in community and general practice settings. This will include LTCs, for example diabetes, coronary heart disease, heart failure, hypertension and stroke, COPD, arthritis, dementia and other common mental illnesses, frailty, and palliative and end of life care
An understanding of the presentations of multiple pathology, depression and anxiety states and frailty predominantly in older people
Knowledge of the management of uncomplicated symptoms in those patients with palliative or terminal care needs and enhanced communication skills to confidently manage uncertainty
Role model the values expected in Compassion in Practice (2014), ensuring that patient, family and carer feedback supports that care received was compassionate
Ensuring information is recorded objectively and reported back to the community or general practice nursing team