General Practice Nurse
Dependent on experience
Prestbury Medical Practice, Broadway, Wolverhampton, WV10 8EA
Hours of work: 37.5 hours for a fixed term contract
Salary range: Dependent on experience
We are a professional and friendly GP Practice looking after around 13,500 patients based in the Wednesfield/Bushbury area.
https://www.prestburymedicalpractice.co.uk/
GENERAL PRACTICE NURSE
REPORTS TO: LEAD NURSE / PARTNER GP’s / PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)
Job Summary:
The General Practice Nurse will work as part of the primary healthcare team providing personal and contracted medical services to the patients of the practice.
Practice Values:
To demonstrate and provide evidence of the Practice Values, these are:
- Provide a professional service
- Working together as one
- Respect for each other and our patients
- Offer a patient led service
- Adhere to NMC code of conduct and other nursing standards
Job Responsibilities:
• Assist in and perform routine tasks related to patient care as directed by senior nursing staff and GPs
• Long Term Condition reviews
• Cytology
• Wound care / ulcer care/Doppler
• Removal of Sutures
• New Patient Medicals/Urinalysis
• Travel Clinic
• Phlebotomy / Venepuncture
• Ear examination
• Routine / Childhood and travel immunisations
• Chaperoning and assisting patients, where appropriate, who are being examined by another clinician
• Assisting GPs with minor surgery, coil fittings and implants
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swab
• Mentor / Supervisor to HCA’s, new Nurses and student Nurses
• Follow agreed clinical protocols, policies and procedures
• Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs when called upon to do so
• Maintaining GP and Nurses rooms when called upon to do so
• Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
• Infection Prevention and Control management and standards
• Participation in administrative systems in the Practice
• Maintain timely and accurate patient records
• Advise senior nurses of potential problems or errors within a range of assigned tasks
• Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required.
• On occasion there may be a requirement to undertake home visits
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 will 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 confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons, in accordance with GDPR, practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & Safety
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others’ health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
• Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimen’s process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
• Management and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practice including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing correct usage by staff
• Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, implementation of and adherence to those protocols
Please apply on NHS Jobs (https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A1181-25-0015), Indeed or a CV can be e-mailed to Natalie Bettles at natalie.bettles@nhs.net
Contact details for more information or an informal discussion: Natalie Bettles on natalie.bettles@nhs.net
Closing date: 20 October 2025
