Practice Nurse

Job summary
Are you a passionate and patient-focused Practice Nurse? We'd love to hear from you!

Hours: 21 hours per week (3 days, to include a Thursday and Friday)

Salary: From £17.69 per hour (depending on experience)

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Practice Nurse to join our welcoming team and play a key role in delivering outstanding care to our local community. Whether you're an experienced Practice Nurse, or newly qualified, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a supportive and collaborative practice. If you are new to General Practice, we support our new Nurses through a Practice Nurse Preceptorship.

Your application will need to explain how your experience and skills meet each of the essential criteria in the person specification.

CLOSING DATE 22ND SEPTEMBER 2026.

INTERVIEWS TO BE HELD EITHER WEEK COMMENCING 5TH OR 12TH OCTOBER 2026.

Main duties of the job
As a Practice Nurse, you will provide high-quality nursing care to patients across a broad range of services, to include all duties normally undertaken by an RGN and in addition any duties as appropriate.

About us
We are a thriving and innovative Medical Group bringing together Holsworthy and Hatherleigh Medical Centres. We see patients at both sites and have a team that includes GPs, paramedics, nurse practitioners, practice nurses, health care assistants and phlebotomists as well as our practice management and administrative support teams. In addition, we also have access to clinical pharmacists, social prescribers, and a mental health practitioner through our local Primary Care Network.

With such a comprehensive range of roles within our team we are able to offer timely and innovative support to our 15,000 patients across our two practices.

Work life balance is important to us and we are ideally placed on the North Devon/North Cornwall border for many outdoor activities including surfing or sea pool swimming at Bude, hiking on Dartmoor or the South West coastal path.

Our benefits include:

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing with length of service
• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Company sick pay from 6 months
• Opportunities for professional development and training

Job responsibilities
Professional:

• Practice independently in accordance with NMC code of conduct and with reference to practice guidelines, appropriately referring to GPs
• Maintain accurate documentation of care and utilisation of IT
• Ensure continuation of own personal and professional development, facilitated by utilisation of clinical supervision networks.
• Offer a holistic approach to travel health by providing comprehensive advice to patients prior to travel including; vaccinations and medicines, safe sex, food hygiene, sun protection. Refer to Travel Clinic if complex
• Offer advice about childhood and adult vaccinations and ensure vaccines are administered under patient group directions
• Running chronic disease clinics and health promotion programmes by providing a holistic assessment and lifestyle advice on diet, smoking, alcohol intake and exercise. Facilitates change
• Assessing problems presented opportunistically by patients, dealing with minor injuries.
• Able to document consultations according to NMC guidelines
• Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms of child abuse
• Perform a holistic assessment of patients attending for ear care including irrigation
• Perform a holistic assessment of patients attending for cervical cytology smear tests
• Perform venepuncture according to local guidelines
• Provide a holistic approach to wound management and implement wound care in line with current evidence based guidelines
• Suture removal
• Take ECGs
• Assist in the provision of minor surgery
• Ability to obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written)
• Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained
• Ability to monitor and manage maintenance of stock and equipment to include refrigeration, sterilizer and emergency equipment
• Confidentially of information gained at work must be preserved at all times

Managerial:

• Contribute to the assessment of service needs
• Assist patients to identify their health needs
• Contribute a nursing perspective to the practice development plan
• Manage and organise individual patient consultations
• Aware of identification and reporting procedures related to professional standards
• To attend staff meetings
• Support the Practice clinical governance agenda
• Identify changes to clinical practice that are required to implement evidence-based guidelines

Educational:

• Identify own personal development and training needs with line manager
• Participate in clinical supervision
• Support others with their training and development needs
• To participate in continuing education and maintain a contemporary level of professional knowledge and skills

Personnel:

• Take reasonable care of own safety and that of other persons who may be affected by own act or omission.
• Co-operation with the practice to ensure all members of the team adheres to statutory regulations/policies and codes of practice and departments safety rules
• Maintains a caring environment through the support of colleagues

Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy
• Clinical skills chronic disease management, cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination
• Change-management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
• Communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families
• IT skills, competent with Microsoft Office 365, email, and use of internet as a resource

Desirable

• Understanding and knowledge of healthcare provision in GP practices, QOF and enhanced services
• Awareness of local and national health policy
• Knowledge of public health issues in the area
• Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care
• Audit skills
• Knowledge of Primary Care IT systems i.e. SystmOne

Experience
Essential

• Post registration/working towards experience in a primary care setting
• Long-term condition management
• Experience working autonomously and as part of a team

Qualifications
Essential

• Educated to Degree level (relevant Nursing/ General Practice Nurse qualification)

Desirable

• Independent/supplementary nurse prescribing qualification
• Minor injuries qualification
• Chronic Disease management qualification

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.