Practice Nurse in Milton Keynes

We are looking for an experienced, skilled and compassionate Practice Nurse to join our friendly clinical team. This is a varied, hands-on role providing high-quality nursing care to patients across a broad range of primary care services. We are looking for someone who is confident working independently, enjoys being part of a supportive multidisciplinary team and is committed to providing safe, effective and patient-centred care. Previous Practice Nurse experience within primary care is essential for this role. This post is for 2 days per week every Thursday and Friday and the salary is dependent on experience.

Main duties of the job

This role is for an experienced Practice Nurse able to deliver a broad range of nursing services. Responsibilities will include:

• Providing safe, evidence-based nursing care, maintaining accurate and timely clinical documentation in accordance with practice policies and professional standards
• Deliver a comprehensive range of nursing services, including wound management, venepuncture, ECGs, and cervical cytology
• Administer routine and seasonal vaccinations, including childhood immunisations, travel vaccines, influenza, and COVID-19 programmes
• Provide assessment, monitoring, and management of patients with long-term conditions such as asthma, COPD, hypertension, and diabetes
• Promote health and wellbeing through health education, lifestyle advice, and new patient health assessments
• Maintaining high standards of infection prevention and control
• Working collaboratively with GPs, ACPs, HCAs and the wider multidisciplinary team ensuring patients receive coordinated and holistic support
• Contribute to clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, and service development activities

The role requires confident clinical decision-making, excellent communication skills and a strong commitment to clinical governance, patient safety and the delivery of high-quality care.

About us

We are a well-established general practice committed to providing high-quality, holistic and patient-centred care to our local community. We pride ourselves on being a supportive and friendly place to work, where staff are valued and encouraged to develop their skills and professional interests. Professionalism, kindness and mutual respect are important to us. Our clinical and non-clinical teams work closely together, with an emphasis on open communication, shared learning, clinical governance and continuous improvement.

If you are an experienced Practice Nurse looking to join a welcoming and supportive primary care team, we would be very pleased to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients as well as providing nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team. The duties will include all tasks normally undertaken by an experienced RGN in primary care and in addition any roles agreed between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current training and competencies.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Child Immunisations and routine immunisations and vaccinations given under PGDs
• Venepuncture
• Removal of Sutures
• Urinalysis
• Swabs
• ECG recording
• Blood Pressure Measurements and Hypertension reviews
• Cervical Screening
• Travel Health
• Contraceptive pill checks / sexual health
• Family Planning Clinics/Contraception
• Administration of injections
• Health promotion and management
• Provide emergency care to patients as necessary and attend annual Basic Life Support and Anaphylaxis training
• Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
• Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to GPs as appropriate
• Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/Nurses ensuring that all samples for pathology are accurately labelled and ready for collection
• Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
• Surgical equipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation
• Assisting in the implementation and management of appropriate health and safety and infection control policies, as defined in local and national policies
• Contributes to management of stock and ordering stock where required
• Contributes to management of medicines and vaccines as per policy
• Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations
• Assisting with the collection and recording of data on needs related to health and well-being and ensure that these are documented correctly
• To ensure that all consultations are recorded timely and accurately on SystmOne according to Practice protocols
• To perform other clinical tasks as trained and within the skills of the post holder, as may be required by the Practice

Job Responsibilities

To be responsible for the implementation of processes for the effective management of patients with long-term conditions using evidence-based practice, including care for elderly and housebound patients. Working as a member of the practice multidisciplinary team, the post holder will ensure nursing services are delivered effectively to the entitled patient population. The Practice Nurse will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as infection prevention and control, health promotion, chronic disease management, well woman and well man clinics, as well as actively supporting the practice management team in the reviewing and delivery of clinical policy and procedure.

The organisation will ensure the post holder has access to appropriate clinical supervision and a named individual to provide advice and support on a day-to-day basis.

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
• Reporting potential risks identified to the Practice Manager.

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this Employment, whilst also taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively, efficiently and professionally with other team members.
• Communicate effectively, efficiently and professionally with patients and carers and all other healthcare professionals.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services

The post-holder will:

• Apply Practice policies, standards and guidance.
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
• Participate in audits and work improvements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and revalidation
• Cervical cytology qualification
• Childhood immunisation training and competency

Experience

• Experience working as a Practice Nurse in Primary Care
• Experience delivering the full range of treatment room services
• Experience undertaking childhood and adult immunisations
• Experience performing cervical cytology (smears)
• Experience of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures in primary care
• Experience working autonomously within own scope of practice
• Experience managing patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes, asthma, COPD and hypertension
• Experience supporting IPC audits, monitoring, or evidence gathering
• Experience of working with elderly, frail, or housebound patients
• Experience participating in audit or quality improvement activity

Knowledge and Skills

• Experienced with SystmOne
• Ability to work confidently and safely within own scope of practice
• Ability to recognise when referral to GPs or other clinicians is required
• Good understanding of clinical governance and patient safety
• Ability to maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records
• Good communication skills with patients and colleagues
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Experience contributing to practice policy or protocol development
• Strong IT skills, including use of SystmOne
• Willingness to contribute to service development and evolving ways of working

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.