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Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

PCN Experienced Practice Nurse

The closing date is 20 October 2025

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Job summary

We are offering an exciting opportunity for an Experienced Practice Nurse to join our Primary Care Network (PCN) team, working across Island Medical Centre/Wood Wharf & Dockland Medical Centre.

Together, these practices care for a diverse population of approximately 20,000 patients on the Isle of Dogs. This is a new and innovative role designed to support the delivery of high-quality patient care.

About the Role

You would be working within an existing Nursing Team and as part of a wider multi-disciplinary general practice team, you will play a key role in providing safe, effective, and personalised nursing care. This includes supporting patients with a wide variety of health needs, from long-term conditions to complex care, and contributing to health promotion, prevention, and quality improvement initiatives.

What You'll Do

  • Deliver compassionate, evidence-based care to patients, including those with complex needs and those requiring end-of-life care.
  • Apply your clinical knowledge, skills, and judgement to assess, plan, and evaluate care.
  • Manage clinical risk, work within professional boundaries, and maintain high standards of practice.
  • Empower patients to take an active role in their health, supporting self-management where appropriate.
  • Supervise and support colleagues, contributing to training and development.
  • Take part in service development and lead or support quality improvement projects at PCN level.

Main duties of the job

What Were Looking For

  • Minimum 3 years experience in a General Practice setting.
  • Strong clinical skills, with the ability to evaluate complex care plans and make sound, evidence-based decisions.
  • Confidence working both autonomously and as part of a wider team.
  • A commitment to professional standards, continuous improvement, and patient-centred care.
  • Problem-solving ability, adaptability, and a proactive approach to service development.

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking, supportive PCN team in an area with a rich, diverse patient population. As an employee of the TH GP Care Group (the Tower Hamlets GP Federation) , we value collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning, and you will have the scope to make a real difference in shaping services and improving patient outcomes.

The Care Group reserves the right to close this advert early where we have received a high number of applications, and we encourage candidates to submit their applications promptly.

Interviews scheduled for w/c 27 October 2025.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care

Being a great place to work

Integrating primary and community care

Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people

Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Details

Date posted

02 October 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£44,759 to £50,759 a year depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

E0136-25-0056

Job locations

Docklands Medical Centre

100 Spindrift Avenue

London

E14 9WU


Island Medical Centre

Roserton Street

London

E14 3PG


Job description

Job responsibilities

CLINICAL

  • Leads LTC management across the PCN, supporting quality improvement and assurance initiatives.

  • Supports public health and screening programmes including immunisations, vaccinations, and cervical screening, sexual health and blood-borne virus screening.

  • Embeds population health management approaches within general practice, targeting health inequalities and improving access.

  • Work alongside and as part of a multi-disciplinary team (including GP support) within the PCN to consult with patients and their family to undertake assessments of patient need and devise and evaluate LTC care plans, in accordance with clinically based evidence, NICE guidance and the Direct Enhanced Services contract of the Network.

  • Carry out clinical nursing practice at an experienced practice nurse level using clinical skills, critical judgements, and knowledge to deliver appropriate and safe care within their level of competence.

  • Evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, interventions, and equipment to make clinical decisions.

  • Deliver clinical care in the context of continual change, challenging environments, different models of care delivery, innovation and rapidly evolving technologies using analysis and their underpinning knowledge.

  • Be responsible for and deliver proactive care in LTCs and multimorbidity, relevant to the Quality Outcomes Framework (QoF), and Local Enhanced Service expectations.

  • Collaborate with other members of the PCN including doctors, nurses and AHPs, accepting referrals, using clinical reasoning skills to recognise when referral to them for specialist care may be required.

  • Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care.

  • Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events.

  • Teach and advise patients and their families on how to manage their condition or support the multi-disciplinary team to do so.

  • Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.

LEADERSHIP

  • Support, mentor and supervise new-to-practice nurses and other healthcare professionals within the PCN.

  • Work collaboratively across the PCN to enhance integration with community, secondary, and social care services.

  • Advise and support on the development and delivery of workstreams and services that enhance the core general practice offer, relating to area of experience, as part of the PCNs strategy, where appropriate.

  • Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to PCN and practice-level meetings, as required.

  • Work in partnership with other clinical teams to collaborate on improving the quality of health care by responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.

  • Liaise and work with professionals from community services, community MDTs and specialists to ensure they are delivering effective care to patients requiring this, as needed.

Job description

Job responsibilities

CLINICAL

  • Leads LTC management across the PCN, supporting quality improvement and assurance initiatives.

  • Supports public health and screening programmes including immunisations, vaccinations, and cervical screening, sexual health and blood-borne virus screening.

  • Embeds population health management approaches within general practice, targeting health inequalities and improving access.

  • Work alongside and as part of a multi-disciplinary team (including GP support) within the PCN to consult with patients and their family to undertake assessments of patient need and devise and evaluate LTC care plans, in accordance with clinically based evidence, NICE guidance and the Direct Enhanced Services contract of the Network.

  • Carry out clinical nursing practice at an experienced practice nurse level using clinical skills, critical judgements, and knowledge to deliver appropriate and safe care within their level of competence.

  • Evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, interventions, and equipment to make clinical decisions.

  • Deliver clinical care in the context of continual change, challenging environments, different models of care delivery, innovation and rapidly evolving technologies using analysis and their underpinning knowledge.

  • Be responsible for and deliver proactive care in LTCs and multimorbidity, relevant to the Quality Outcomes Framework (QoF), and Local Enhanced Service expectations.

  • Collaborate with other members of the PCN including doctors, nurses and AHPs, accepting referrals, using clinical reasoning skills to recognise when referral to them for specialist care may be required.

  • Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care.

  • Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events.

  • Teach and advise patients and their families on how to manage their condition or support the multi-disciplinary team to do so.

  • Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.

LEADERSHIP

  • Support, mentor and supervise new-to-practice nurses and other healthcare professionals within the PCN.

  • Work collaboratively across the PCN to enhance integration with community, secondary, and social care services.

  • Advise and support on the development and delivery of workstreams and services that enhance the core general practice offer, relating to area of experience, as part of the PCNs strategy, where appropriate.

  • Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to PCN and practice-level meetings, as required.

  • Work in partnership with other clinical teams to collaborate on improving the quality of health care by responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.

  • Liaise and work with professionals from community services, community MDTs and specialists to ensure they are delivering effective care to patients requiring this, as needed.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experienced in cervical screening, contraception, sexual health, wound care, travel health, vaccinations and immunisations for the national immunisation schedule and venepuncture.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in delivering long-term conditions management and supporting quality improvement within the Practice and/or PCN.

Qualifications

Essential

  • More than one academic Level 6 diploma or postgraduate certification in long-term conditions care and/or public health initiatives.

Experience

Essential

  • A minimum of 3 years experience of working at Registered Nurse Level Practice,

Qualifications

Essential

  • Professional qualification (RGN) and full NMC Registration.
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experienced in cervical screening, contraception, sexual health, wound care, travel health, vaccinations and immunisations for the national immunisation schedule and venepuncture.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in delivering long-term conditions management and supporting quality improvement within the Practice and/or PCN.

Qualifications

Essential

  • More than one academic Level 6 diploma or postgraduate certification in long-term conditions care and/or public health initiatives.

Experience

Essential

  • A minimum of 3 years experience of working at Registered Nurse Level Practice,

Qualifications

Essential

  • Professional qualification (RGN) and full NMC Registration.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Docklands Medical Centre

100 Spindrift Avenue

London

E14 9WU


Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Docklands Medical Centre

100 Spindrift Avenue

London

E14 9WU


Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Chris Ley

chrisley@nhs.net

07530273779

Details

Date posted

02 October 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£44,759 to £50,759 a year depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

E0136-25-0056

Job locations

Docklands Medical Centre

100 Spindrift Avenue

London

E14 9WU


Island Medical Centre

Roserton Street

London

E14 3PG


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