About this role
Job Summary:
Job role: Experienced General Practice Nurse – North PCN (The Fryent Way Surgery)
Organisation: K&W Healthcare
Location: Kingsbury
Hourly Rate: £25–£30, depending on the experience
Hours: 10 hours per week, across 2 days (1 PM–6 PM each day).
Engagement: Self-employed
Reports to: Designated Clinical Lead and Practice Manager
Professional Registration: Current Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registration
Job Purpose:
The Experienced General Practice Nurse (GPN) will play a pivotal role in delivering safe, evidence-based, and patient-centered care across K&W Healthcare’s network of 27 GP practices within the Brent PCNs. The postholder will manage and support patients with long-term conditions, deliver proactive health promotion, and contribute to the continuous improvement of clinical services. This role requires working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access and high quality outcomes for a patient population of over 200,000 residents in Brent.
Key Responsibilities:
- Clinical Care & Service Delivery
- Provide comprehensive, evidence-based nursing care in line with NMC standards and K&W Healthcare protocols.
- Manage and review patients with long-term conditions (e.g., diabetes, asthma, COPD, hypertension, cardiovascular disease).
- Undertake a range of clinical procedures such as immunisations, cervical cytology, wound care, ECGs,
phlebotomy, and health checks.
- Support chronic disease management, including recall systems and audits.
- Promote health education, self-management, and wellbeing among patients.
- Support the development and delivery of population health initiatives and proactive care models.
General Practice Nursing Services
- Administer vaccinations and immunisations in accordance with current guidance, appropriate authorisation and demonstrated competence.
- Undertake cervical screening where appropriately trained and authorised.
- Provide wound assessment, dressings and ongoing wound care.
- Undertake blood pressure monitoring, venepuncture and other agreed clinical procedures.
- Provide travel health advice and vaccinations where trained and where the service is offered.
- Provide health promotion and preventive care advice.
- Recognise urgent presentations and arrange appropriate clinical assessment or emergency assistance.
Medicines and Patient Safety
- Administer medicines only within appropriate legal authorisation and local procedures.
- Maintain safe vaccine storage, cold-chain monitoring and stock management.
- Provide patients with clear information about treatment, possible adverse effects and follow-up.
- Prescribe only where appropriately qualified, registered and authorised.
Multidisciplinary Working
- Work collaboratively with GPs, pharmacists, healthcare assistants and other practice colleagues.
- Attend relevant clinical meetings and contribute to coordinated patient care.
- Refer patients to appropriate services and communicate follow-up requirements clearly.
- Support colleagues and share knowledge within the limits of the role.
Clinical Governance and Professional Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate, timely clinical records using practice electronic systems.
- Practise in accordance with the NMC Code and maintain current NMC registration.
- Recognise and report safeguarding concerns in line with local procedures.
- Follow confidentiality, consent, information governance, infection prevention and health and safety requirements.
- Report incidents and near misses and contribute to clinical audit and quality improvement.
- Maintain relevant training, continuing professional development and evidence required for NMC revalidation.
- Work within personal competence and seek clinical advice when required.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
- Current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse.
- Established experience working as a General Practice Nurse in a UK general practice setting.
- Demonstrated competence in delivering core practice nursing services.
- Relevant training and competence for the clinical duties agreed for the role.
- Experience assessing patients and contributing to long-term condition management.
- Understanding of vaccination safety, infection prevention and safeguarding.
- Ability to recognise clinical deterioration and escalate concerns appropriately.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to provide respectful, patient-centred care.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Accurate clinical documentation and confidence using electronic patient records.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship from K&W Healthcare.
Desirable Criteria
- Post-registration qualifications in diabetes, asthma, COPD or other relevant clinical areas.
- Current cervical screening training and authorisation.
- Experience using EMIS Web or SystmOne.
- Knowledge of QOF and general practice clinical coding.
- Independent prescribing qualification with the appropriate NMC annotation.
- Experience in travel health, clinical audit, service improvement or mentoring.