# Practice Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Primary Care Careers.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Primary Care Careers
- **Location:** 78 East Hill, Colchester, Essex, CO1 2QS, United Kingdom
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Salary:** Depends on experience
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full-time, Part-time
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-15T21:01:39.005Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/M0038-26-0784
- **Application URL:** https://vacancies.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/vacancies/29900/practice-nurse.html
- **Employer website:** https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/

## Job Content

### Job summary

Colchester Medical Practice has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurses to join our team on a part time or full time basis. This role will be predominately based at our Wimpole Road Site. The minimum hours per week would be 22.5, ranging up to 37.

### 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.

### About us

Colchester Medical Practice is a well established group of practices consisting of four GP surgeries and a health and wellbeing hub. We have formed our own PCN within the practices. We serve a population of 43,000 patients. By working for Colchester Medical Practice, you also see the following benefits: NHS Pension Scheme The NHS pension scheme is a defined benefits scheme Life insurance Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and childrens pension Ill health benefits 20% employer contribution Proper Pay Living Wage Foundation Accredited Eye-care vouchers Health service discounts Annual Leave: minimum 28 days FTE.

### Details

- Date posted: 15 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: Depending on experience - depending on experience
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
- Reference number: 29900
- Job locations: 78 East Hill, Colchester, Essex, CO1 2QS, United Kingdom

### Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.

### UK Registration

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

## Person Specification

### 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, assisting with minor surgery, 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.
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### Qualifications

**Essential**

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

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