Practice Nurse

Posting date:	26 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	05 September 2025
Location:	London, W12 0HS
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	B0441-25-0039

Summary

Clinical Practice:- - Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being. - Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition. - Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition. - Lead and develop programmes to improve health and well-being and meet the specific needs of communities, groups and individuals. - Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care. - Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care. - Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals. - Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side effects and interactions. - Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and encourage principles of self-care. - Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds. - Support and advice women requesting information relating to family planning needs. - Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultations. - Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children. - Promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions. Communication:- - Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment. - Communicate with and support patients who are receiving bad news. - Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating. - Utilise communication skills to support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens. - Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication. - Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment external stakeholders. - Act as an advocate when representing the patients and colleagues viewpoints to others. Delivery Quality Service:- - Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). - Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures. - Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality. - Deliver care according to the NSF and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and evidence-based care. - Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation. - Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities. - Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required. - In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate. - Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care. - Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation. - Participate in the management, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events utilising a structured framework. - Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate. - Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance. - Work within policies relating to domestic violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate. Team Working :- - Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time. - Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working. - Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated duties. - Ensure clear understanding and utilisation of referral mechanisms within the practice. - Accept delegation from other nurses, prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded in own practice. - Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care. - Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team. Management of Risk:- - Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients. - Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines. - Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken. Where appropriate, oversee the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage according to legal requirements. - Undertake mandatory and statutory training. - Apply infection control measures within the practice according to practice, local and national guidelines. - Apply policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all. - Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice. Utilising Information:- - Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information. - Review and process data using accurate Read codes about patients in order to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes. - Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition. - Understand own and others responsibility to the individual organisation regarding the Freedom of Information Act. Learning and Development:- - Act as mentor to students, assessing competence against set standards as requested and if appropriately qualified. - Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments. - Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate. - Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information. - Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning. Equality and Diversity:- - Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity. - Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture. - Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights. - Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies. - Act as a role model in good practice relating to equality and diversity. - Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers participate in care and refuse care. Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care.