A registered nurse with appropriate qualifications is responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population. The practice nurse will be responsible for several clinical areas such as health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, well women and well man clinics, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.
Job Responsibilities Strategic management & planning
Keep abreast of current affairs and identify potential threats and opportunities
Contribute to Practice strategy; formulate objectives and research and develop ideas for future Practice development
Work with Partners and Practice Manager in planning and setting strategic targets
To undertake required tasks to meet the agreed aims and be wholly responsible for them
Develop and maintain effective communication both within the Practice and with relevant outside agencies
Primary Responsibilities:
Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
Provide vaccination and travel medicine services, including childhood, adult and travel vaccinations
Provide wound care ulcer /Doppler etc. to patients, including dressings
Request pathology services as necessary
Process pathology results as required
Provide chronic disease clinics and Maintain skills and an interest in Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Spirometry, Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke TIA and Contraception.
Delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary specialist care as required
Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
Ensure read codes are used effectively
Maintain chronic disease registers
Implement and promote health during NHS Healthchecks
Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children and travel
Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs to the appropriate services
Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines within own scope of practice




Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
Maintain baby immunisation results records
Maintain smears results logs
Maintain emergency drug kit and log sheets
Manage daily fridge temperatures and log sheets, and be aware of the cold chain procedures
Secondary Responsibilities:
Develop, implement, and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients
Assist GPs with minor surgery when required
Chaperone patients where necessary
Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
Liaise with external services including specialist nursing teams and agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately vulnerable patients
Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual
Understand practice and local policies
Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle
Monitor and ensure the protected storage, rotation, and disposal of medicines
Support junior members of the nursing team, providing guidance when necessary
Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA)
Other tasks will include Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs
Maintaining Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required
Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
Assisting with the ordering of vaccinations, dressings and equipment to maintain stock levels
A duty to advise senior nurses of potential problems or errors within the range of assigned tasks




Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required
A requirement to undertake patient and Care home visits
Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
Administrative and professional responsibilities:
Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team.
Attend and contribute to relevant internal and external meetings as required including practice clinical meetings, nurse team meeting and care planning meetings
Maintain a personal progress and training plan to keep up to date with current thinking and developments, as well as identifying own training requirements, attending appropriate courses
Promote evidence-based practice through use of latest research based guidelines
Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of peer audit and review
Maintain professional registration, including revalidating as required
Work within the latest NMC Code of Professional Conduct
Record accurate consultation date in patients records in accordance with NMC guidance and other standards
Administering of injections as per local PGDs
Reviewing and signing PGS and keep up to date with revisions
Keep up to date with pertinent health policy and work with the practice team to consider the impact and strategies for implementation
Work collaboratively with colleagues both internally and externally
Demonstrate leadership
Use technology and appropriate software packages as an aid to the planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information
Act as a role model in the observance of equality and diversity good practice
Knowledge and Understanding of Child protection framework guidelines
Ensure accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes on the clinical computer system as appropriate
Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the Practice.
Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports
Assist in the routine recall of patients with chronic diseases
Assist in the formulation of Practice philosophy, strategy and policy and develop appropriate protocols
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📌 Practice Nurse (Western Australia)
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📍 Western Australia