Practice Nurse in Bristol

Welcome to FCMS! Fixed Term Contract until April 2027.

Pay: £19.78-£20.88 dependent on experience

Hours: Full, Part and Bank Hours Available

Accountable to: Head of Clinical Workforce

Reportable to: Clinical Manager

Base: Work will be undertaken on our Mobile Unit with a base of Newfield House, Vicarage Lane, Blackpool, FY4 4EW

Closing Date: 6th July 2026

Overview of Role: At FCMS we provide several services across the Fylde Coast, Morecambe Bay, Rossendale, West Lancashire and Doncaster as well as diagnostic services across the country. These include GP Out of Hours services, Urgent Treatment Centres, and a range of other Primary Care Services including Enhanced Access (Fylde Coast) and Special Allocation Services (Lancashire / Cumbria/Parts of Cheshire and Merseyside). TDM supports people across Blackpool to address clinical and non-clinical factors increasing their risk of an unplanned hospitalisation. Based on the evidence-base there is an underlying risk factor of socio-economic disadvantage which means that more support delivered through non-traditional mechanisms is required to improve health outcomes. Key aims of TDM are to provide clinical and non-clinical interventions that meet the needs of individuals identified in Blackpool through a mixed case-finding approach including the Core20Plus5 cohorts and with the following Long-Term Condition - cardiovascular disease (CVD) and/or COPD. The aim is to support them to achieve their maximum potential for physical, cognitive, social and psychological function, participation and quality of living. To achieve all these goals, we will be working collaboratively with other Blackpool Based organisations such as Healthwatch, PCN Social Prescribers, Community Nursing and Housing Intervention teams.

Main duties of the job: We are looking for motivated clinicians to deliver high-quality, patient-centred nursing care within the heart of the community on our mobile unit. The role focuses on patients with long term conditions, particularly cardiovascular disease (CVD) and COPD within the core20plus5 cohorts. The postholder will provide holistic clinical and non-clinical interventions aimed at improving physical, cognitive, reducing health inequalities and preventing health crisis.

About us: The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services. Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

We offer:

• NHS Pension
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Career Development Opportunities
• Attendance Bonus
• Staff Benefit Scheme
• Free Tea & Coffee
• Eye Care Contributions

Day to Day Duties to include, but not exhaustive:

• To provide proactive reviews and support for patients with CVD and/or COPD in line with clinical competence and local pathways
• Undertake holistic health assessments, identifying physical, mental and social needs
• Deliver health prevention and health promotion interventions including lifestyle advice (alcohol, smoking, diet and physical activity), weight management and wellbeing support, opportunistic screening and vaccination advice
• Identify unmet needs and escalating health concerns, taking appropriate actions
• Deliver care within the mobile clinical unit adapting consultations to a community-based environment
• Support people who present to the mobile unit by providing assessment and advice where appropriate, signposting and referring to the most suitable service when out of the scope of practice and offering reassurance, health information and ongoing support
• Promote self-management and empower patients to engage with health services
• Accurately record all activity, assessments and outcomes on EMIS using appropriate clinical coding and templates
• Maintain confidentiality and data protection standards
• Maintain Current NMC registration adhering to the NMC code of conduct
• Work autonomously within scope of practice, escalating concerns appropriately
• Participate in supervision, appraisal and continuing professional development
• Contribute to service development, evaluation and quality improvement initiatives

Multidisciplinary Working: Work collaboratively with other Blackpool Based organisations such as Healthwatch, PCN Social Prescribers, Community Nursing, Housing Intervention teams.

Our key expectations are:

• Self-awareness
• Living authentically
• Adaptability - Being ready to adjust depending on the situation
• Openness - What you see is what you get
• Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible
• Generosity of spirit - Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness
• Ability to have fun
• Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so that people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:

• Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!
• Awesome: We aren't here to be average, we're here to be awesome!
• Humble: We're here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become
• Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done
• Oompf: We have natural oompf! It's infectious!
• Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption 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. This will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence). For Driver positions you will also be required to undertake a Driver check. The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will be expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable to this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Person Specification:

Personal Qualities:

• Essential: Willing / able to attend appropriate training
• Commitment to own personal development
• Able to exercise initiative in organisation and prioritising
• Good communication skills both written and oral
• Good Interpersonal skills
• Basic IT skills
• Enthusiastic and committed about the role
• Flexible
• Promote the Service with its ever expansion
• Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues

Experience:

• Essential: Long Term Condition Monitoring
• Working in Primary Care / GP Practice
• Ability to use EMIS computer system
• Health Promotion
• Understanding of health inequalities and the core20Plus5 priorities

Qualifications:

• Essential: Registered Nurse NMC
• 2 years post qualification
• Long term condition qualifications
• Respiratory, CVD
• Venepuncture
• Feno Testing
• Spirometry accreditation

Desirable: NMP v300 prescriber, Other Long Term Condition qualifications.

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.