Practice Nurse in Leeds

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Practice Nurse to join our large, friendly and well established GP practice in North Leeds. This will be a full-time role for 37.5 hours a week. Ideally, we would like to appoint an experienced Practice Nurse, particularly someone with experience in long-term condition management and a good understanding of working within primary care. However, we are also open to considering a newly qualified nurse or someone new to general practice. For us, the right attitude, enthusiasm and willingness to learn are just as important as previous experience. If you are motivated, keen to develop your skills and committed to providing excellent patient care, we would be interested in hearing from you. There will be training and clinical supervision available for the right candidate to learn new skills.

We recognise that primary care nursing is a broad and continually developing field. We are committed to supporting our nurses to learn, develop and build confidence across all aspects of practice nursing. There will be adequate opportunities for learning, training and development, with support from our experienced nursing and wider clinical team. Whether you already have extensive Practice Nurse experience or are looking to make the move into primary care, this is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a supportive and well-resourced practice.

This is a full-time Practice Nurse position, with the possibility of working your hours across 4 days, depending on the successful candidate's preference and the needs of the practice. Friday availability from 8am-6pm is essential. We are open Monday to Friday 8am-6:30pm with an evening surgery on a Thursday till 8pm. The practice nurse role provides caring support, patient interventions and treatment room procedures. As part of the multi-disciplinary team the nurse will work within their scope of practice to provide patient centred care.

We are a large and friendly practice with a population of approximately 14,000 patients. We have a team of 3 GP partners, 7 salaried GPs, 3 Registrars, one Advanced Nurse practitioner, 4 Nurses and 3 health care assistants. We also have a wider multi-disciplinary team with physiotherapists, pharmacists and well being practitioners working on site. We are a friendly and supportive practice with regular clinical and whole team meetings where contribution to practice development is encouraged. There will be the opportunity to develop through external and internal education and courses. We also offer a competitive salary, NHS pension and on-site parking.

The main duties of the nurse will include:

• Childhood immunisations: routine baby immunisations and unscheduled or incomplete immunisations in line with the UK framework.
• Seasonal and travel vaccinations: including flu, covid and other national schemes.
• Women's health: including contraception, cervical screening and HRT.
• Wound care: including post-operative and chronic wound management.
• Long-term condition reviews and management: including data collection, routine health checks and annual reviews.
• Health promotion and preventative care: including NHS health checks and promoting healthy living habits.
• General practice nursing duties: promoting infection prevention control, keeping clinical areas clean and stocked, assisting HCAs, promoting patient centred care.

Qualifications

Essential

• A Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.

Desirable

• Ideally experienced in general practice/primary care
• Confident and competent, or enthusiastic and willing to develop
• Passionate about providing high-quality, patient-centred care
• A good communicator and team player
• Organised, reliable and able to work independently
• Enthusiastic about learning and developing professionally
• Driving license and access to a car

Experience

Essential

• Effective time management, able to plan, manage and organise.
• Able to follow legal, ethical and professional code of conduct and policies.
• Able to work alongside people from all backgrounds, communities and religions respectfully.
• Able to work as part of a team and independently with confidence.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to manage a stressful situation.
• Good IT skills, able to learn new systems.

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.