Practice Nurse

Job summary

Walton Medical Centre has an exciting opportunity for a practice nurse to join our practice. This role is offered on a part-time basis of 16+ hours per week, with flexibility on days and hours.

Walton Medical Practice is situated in the traditional seaside resort of Walton on the Naze, on the Essex Coast. They have a list size of just over 8300 patients. As well as 2 GP Partners and a salaried GP, the Practice team includes a Clinical Pharmacy team of 2, a Nursing team of 10 and an efficient and effective Reception and Administrative team of 18.

We reserve the right to retract the advert if a suitable person is found before the end date.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments
• General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, personalised plans for patients
• Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies
• Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately
• Undertake asthma, COPD, diabetes, CHD clinics/reviews
• Dressing and wound care
• Phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening
• Management of long term conditions
• Cervical cytology sampling
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad

About us

The Colte Partnership is very much At The Heart of Primary Care, being the largest GP Partnership in North East Essex; comprised of 8 local GP practices across Colchester and Tendring. We care for approx. 80,000 patients. Our Head Office is in Feering.

We pride ourselves on working to be at the forefront of Primary Care in our region and have many exciting ventures on the horizon.

Each of our branches has its own character, and family friendly ethos, which is why our patients love coming to us (and tell us so in our regular patient surveys). However, being a large partnership means we can offer so much more than a local branch can by itself with specialist clinics, social prescribing and innovative support such as regular dementia cafes, armed forces support and even child first aid classes for parents.

We strive to look after our employees as well, with generous annual leave, flexible and family friendly working, and support during difficult times such as free counselling.

We also work as a collaborative Primary Care Networks (PCNs) which span across Colchester and Tendring.