Practice Nurse
| Posting date: | 29 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26.51 to £32.62 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £26.51 - £32.62 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2025 |
| Location: | Waterlooville, PO8 8DL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | E0062-25-0068 |
Summary
Level 1: Dressings Level 2: Family planning to include contraceptive initiation and review, and immunisations. Level 3: Chronic disease management (Asthma, COPD, Diabetes, Hypertension, CVD) The post holder will: Provide treatment room services, and others, depending on competency level and scope of practice. To include, but not limited to; wound care, cervical cytology, swabs, family planning such as contraceptive initiation and checks, Chronic Disease Management (Asthma, COPD, Diabetes) Screening; Undertake opportunistic screening including BP, height, weight, BMI, urinalysis, smoking status and alcohol intake. Health promotion: offer education and motivation for patients to change unhealthy behaviours. Recognise a patients readiness to change. Develop and maintain health promotion material. Infection control: Ensure that the highest infection control standards are met. Emergency management: Be competent in anaphylaxis and resuscitation techniques. Safeguarding: Be aware of recognising the need for safeguarding children and adults, raising concerns appropriately. Administration and paperwork: Arising directly from this caseload (record-keeping, other written communications with local GP surgeries as required) and ensuring all appropriate templates and coding is completed for QOF, LCS, DES. Team meetings: Essential to the delivery of team-based care, contributing to discussion of clinical practice standards, developing protocols, mutual professional support for colleagues, you will need to attend meetings and actively participate in these. Personal CPD (continuing professional development): A mix of in-house events, private study and external education events are expected, to remain up to date as is required by your professional registration. Company-wide training. Join and engage in events to maintain a good understanding of the businesses needs and colleagues. Adherence to KPIs without jeopardising the safety of the patient. Identify opportunities and to proactively encourage health promotion and education to all patients. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical decision making within your clinical competence. To provide mentorship and support to junior staff as and when required. To assist in the development of new models for service delivery which have a positive impact on the health economy. To participate in regular performance reviews with your designated line manager. Clearly demonstrating, always, adherence to PHLs core values. Additional reasonable duties as directed by the business that are not explicitly stated in this job description. The post holder will be expected to contribute to and support the development of the service. It is expected that the post holder will: Communicate with the Governance Lead and support the delivery of a high-quality service and raise any governance issues that may arise. Work with the manager to ensure training, significant events, complaints, audits, surveys and other professional service development activities are achieved to ensure the smooth running of the service. Work as part of the clinical and operational team to deliver high standards of patient centred care. Undertake effective multidisciplinary liaison across the primary and secondary care interface and PHL Clinical and Operational Team. Actively participate in investigation of incidents, complaints and investigations as required. Engage with education and development, and take a responsibility to meet learning objectives as set out in your appraisal and maintain levels of CPD in line with your professional registration. Integrate within the clinical and operational teams to identify and deliver service requirements and improvements. Support junior members of the team, offer educational and clinical supervision opportunities and guidance through clinical discussion. Engage with additional activities under direction of your line manager that may not be detailed in your job description. Engage with key stakeholders as required to deliver high standards of patient centred care.