GP Nurse

Part-time General Practice Nurse at Alma Healthcare Centre (Medicus Health Partners). Medicus Health Partners is looking for a dedicated and compassionate General Practice Nurse to join our team at Alma Healthcare Centre. Work in a supportive team alongside experienced nurses and clinicians. Gain varied clinical experience, including chronic disease management, health promotion, vaccination programmes, and minor surgery. Access ongoing training, shared learning, and development opportunities to enhance your career. Make a real impact by providing high-quality, evidence-based care to improve community health. Join an inclusive organisation that values teamwork, diversity, and professional growth. If you are passionate about delivering excellent care in a forward-thinking GP organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Develop and implement health promotion and disease prevention programs.
• Manage and deliver treatment plans for patients with long-term conditions.
• Provide emergency care and support patients in urgent situations.
• Administer vaccinations and immunizations for both adults and children.
• Offer advice and support for family planning, mental health, and other health concerns.
• Conduct cervical cytology consultations and manage uncomplicated wounds.
• Collaborate with the general practice team to ensure comprehensive patient care.
• Utilize technology to manage patient data and support clinical decision-making.

This role offers a varied and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on patient health and well-being within our community.

About us

Medicus Health Partners is the largest GP partnership in Enfield, providing high-quality healthcare to over 93,000 patients across nine convenient locations. Our organisation is built on collaboration, innovation, and a strong commitment to improving community health and well-being.

Our Team

With over 250 skilled staff, including both clinical and non-clinical professionals, we value teamwork, compassion, and excellence in patient care. At Medicus, you'll work alongside experienced colleagues who support your professional development and encourage continuous learning.

Our Culture

We offer an inclusive, supportive, and dynamic workplace where everyone's contribution is valued. We believe in teamwork, respect, and open communication, creating an environment where staff can thrive and make a real difference.

Job responsibilities

• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being.
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition.
• Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care.
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side effects and interactions.
• Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds.
• Support and advise women requesting information relating to family planning needs.
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultations.
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the National Framework (NSF) for Mental Health.
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.
• Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad.
• Promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions.
• Assist senior practitioners in providing minor-surgery sessions.

Communication

• Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Communicate with and support patients who are receiving bad news.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
• Utilise communication skills to support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens.
• Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
• Act as an advocate when representing the patients and colleagues viewpoints to others.

Delivering a quality service

• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Deliver care according to the NSF and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and evidence-based care.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
• Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.

Management of risk

• Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
• Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken.
• Undertake mandatory and statutory training.
• Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines.

Learning and development

• Act as mentor to students, assessing competence against set standards as requested and if appropriately qualified.
• Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments.
• Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.
• Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning.

Equality and diversity

• Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity.
• Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture.
• Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights.

Person Specification

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Clear, polite telephone manner.
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook.
• Effective time management (Planning & Organising).
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Problem solving & analytical skills.
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure.
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes.
• Experience with clinical risk management.

Qualifications

• Qualification in at least one of the following chronic disease areas: Asthma or COPD or Diabetes.
• Chronic disease management qualifications in additional areas (asthma, COPD, CHD, diabetes).
• Childhood Immunisation and Cytology qualifications or willing to train to achieve these qualifications.
• Clinical skills qualification, degree level or equivalent.

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care environment.
• Experience of chronic disease management.
• Experience of autonomous working.
• Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse.
• Experience of managing, leading and developing a team.

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.