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Job summary

Highlands Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for between 16 and 24 hours per week over 2/3 days. (If you are able to be flexible over days/shift patterns, you should state this).

Main duties of the job

  • Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
  • Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
  • General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
  • Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
  • Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
  • Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
  • Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
  • Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
  • Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
  • Hypertension review and management.
  • Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
  • New patient and health checks.

Details

  • Date posted: 02 November 2026
  • Closing date: 13 November 2026
  • Pay scheme: Other
  • Salary: Depending on experience - negotiable
  • Contract: Permanent
  • Working pattern: Part-time
  • Reference number: 30142
  • Job locations: 1629-1643 London Road, Leigh on Sea, Essex, SS9 2SQ, United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential
  • A relevant nursing degree.
  • Current NMC registration with an active PIN.

Experience

Essential
  • Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
  • Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
  • Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
  • Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
  • Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

About us

Highlands Surgery is a well-established, forward-thinking practice committed to delivering high-quality patient care within a supportive and collaborative environment. We are proud to be rated Outstanding by the CQC.

Our team includes 3 GP partners, 3 salaried GPs,3 nurses, an in-house pharmacist, 2 HCAs and a large administrative team. We are also a GP training practice with up to 4 GP registrars at any time, creating a positive learning environment.

We work closely with our Primary Care Network (PCN), supporting patients through a wider multidisciplinary team.

Why Join Us?

  • Supportive and friendly team
  • Opportunities to learn and develop
  • A varied role within a busy practice
  • A chance to make a real difference to patient care

Employer details

  • Employer name: Primary Care Careers
  • Address: 1629-1643 London Road, Leigh on Sea, Essex, SS9 2SQ, United Kingdom
  • Employer's website: https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/