Practice Nurse

We are looking for a practice nurse to join our friendly team working in the town of New Mills in the beautiful High Peak, close to Stockport. We are a fairly small practice, with around 4600 patients currently registered with us. We value the ability which this list size gives us to get to know our patients well as individuals and to practice a more traditional style of patient-focused General Practice with a good level of continuity of care. We pride ourselves on providing excellent care for our patients. We value teamwork, mutual support, and a friendly working environment and are looking for someone who shares these values and our way of working. We are looking for someone who will enjoy working as part of our multidisciplinary team and is also confident to work independently within their professional capabilities. We believe that this role would best suit someone who is already experienced in working independently as a practice nurse, but we would consider applicants who have, The successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of the full range of practice nursing services, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population. The practice nurse will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as infection prevention and control, health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure., We are looking to recruit an ANP as a new role alongside this practice nurse appointment, which we hope will provide additional clinical expertise to our team and provide additional support to our nursing team. Our clinical pharmacist also carries out some of the chronic disease reviews.

We have a weekly clinical lunchtime meeting which gives the team an opportunity to discuss challenging cases or scenarios and discuss any new developments within the practice. We close once a month for full team training. Some of these sessions are joint with our PCN.

other relevant experience and a desire to work within General Practice. We are looking for someone to work part time, between 18 and 24 hours/week.

Previously mentioned, we currently have 4600 registered patients. Our practice area covers New Mills, Hayfield, and the surrounding area, extending part way into Disley at one end and Whaley Bridge at the other. We use EMIS as our clinical system.

This is a beautiful area in which to work, and we are fortunate to work from a large purpose built premises in the centre of New Mills.

We are a part of the High Peak and Buxton PCN, which is made up of 8 practices covering the area from New Mills to Hartington. We are active members of this PCN, and we enjoy good working relationships with all our neighbouring practices.

Our clinical team currently comprises 2 GP partners, 1 salaried GP, 1 practice nurse, 2 HCAs and 1 clinical pharmacist, andare well supported by the wider community and PCN multi-disciplinary team.

We are a training practice who welcome GP specialist trainees as well as medical students.