Job Summary
Tendring PCN has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse or ANP to join our team at the Mayflower Medical Centre in Harwich. Offered on a full or part-time basis depending on the hours the applicant requires, this is an18 month fixed term contract.
General nursing or advanced practitioner applications are welcomed, with areas of special interest and experience desirable including:
- Respiratory conditions
- Diabetes management
- Minor illness
- Family Planning - coils and implants
- HRT, menopause, women's health
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
We are a friendly, well-organised training practice looking after 17,600 patients in an impressive purpose-built GP surgery, located within a community hospital in the seaside town of Harwich in Essex.
Details
Date posted
03 September 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
18 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
28934
Job locations
419 Main Road
Dovercourt
Harwich
Essex
CO12 4EX
Job Description
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A relevant nursing degree.
- Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
- Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course desirable (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications.
- Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
Experience
Essential
- 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.
Person Specification
Essential
- 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.
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).
Additional information
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
419 Main Road
Dovercourt
Harwich
Essex
CO12 4EX
Employer's website
https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
419 Main Road
Dovercourt
Harwich
Essex
CO12 4EX
Employer's website
https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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