Experienced Practice Nurse

Job summary
Upper Gordon Road Surgery is seeking a motivated and compassionate Practice Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high-quality patient care, supporting chronic disease management, and promoting health and wellbeing within our local community and supporting the wider multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver high standards of nursing care to patients within the practice setting
• Undertake chronic disease management including asthma, COPD, diabetes, and hypertension reviews
• Carry out cervical cytology (smears) in line with national screening programmes
• Administer immunisations and vaccinations (including childhood and travel vaccines)
• Perform wound care, dressings, and removal of sutures
• Conduct health promotion and lifestyle advice clinics (e.g. smoking cessation, weight management)
• Carry out NHS health checks and screening programmes
• Assist in infection prevention and control, including maintaining clinical standards and audit processes
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous patient records in accordance with NHS and practice policies
• Support GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team in delivering patient care
• Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, and practice meetings
• Ensure safe management of clinical stock, vaccines, and equipment
• Contribute to safeguarding processes for vulnerable adults and children

About us
Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, serving over 104,000 patients across Surrey Heath. Within our federation, we hold the GMS contract for Upper Gordon Road Surgerya highly regarded, patient-centred practice with a list size of 11,000+.

About Upper Gordon Road Surgery:
The practice is supported by a strong, diverse and experienced clinical team, including:

• Ten Salaried GPs
• Clinical Pharmacists
• Paramedics
• An Advanced Nurse Practitioner
• A dedicated Nursing team
• Healthcare Assistants

Alongside the onsite team, the practice benefits from the federations central management support across operations, HR, finance, governance and senior clinical leadership creating a resilient collaborative environment that enables clinicians to focus on delivering high-quality patient care.

The following are the core responsibilities of this role. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

Job responsibilities
Please note this is not a comprehensive list of responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description attached for the full list.
Please note that due to the high number of applications we receive we are only able to contract candidates for shortlisting. If you do not receive a response within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of working with healthcare professionals and/or previous experience in the NHS or social care
• Understanding of local and national NHS policy
• Understanding of Clinical Governance within primary care
• Previous experience performing NHS health checks
• Previous experience in cervical cytology screening

Desirable

• Previous experience working as a practice nurse in primary care

Qualifications
Essential

• 4 GCSEs (C and above) including English and Maths or equivalent
• NMC Registration
• Up-to-date training in immunisation and cervical screening

Desirable

• Postgraduate diploma or degree in primary care
• Mentoring/ Teaching qualification

Skills
Essential

• Competent in treatment room procedures: wound care ECGs phlebotomy immunisations and cervical screening
• Managing patients with long term conditions such as: diabetes asthma COPD hypertension
• Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd is an equal opportunities employer.