- Provides fundamental nurse-led care to communities across the PCN.
- Undertakes early detection, prevention, and management of cardiovascular disease and other long-term conditions.
- Takes a lead role in managing one specific long-term condition ("LTC") following structured mentorship and preceptorship.
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
- Works within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting integrated care and personalised approaches to patient management.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including team collaboration, effective communication and integration with GPs, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals
- Strong organisation skills
- Managing and making effective use of time
- Effectively adapt to change
- Problem solving skills
- Works within practice and across PCNs
- Analytical thinking
- Conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills to develop relationships with patients and other colleagues
- Building confidence, managing stress, and developing emotional intelligence
- Continuous learning and commitment to further education and specialisation
- Highly observant, able to assess patients and take responsibility for determining the best course of action
Nursing Training Resource Document
The Primary Care Training Hub have collated a list of all available e-learning courses to the nursing workforce in primary care. We recommend to regularly check this document for newly added courses.
Primary Care Resources
The Primary Care Training Hub have developed an Online Training and Learning webpage to compile all available online training courses. These online courses are from a range of different training providers and provide amazing e-learning development opportunities for primary care staff.
This NENC Training Page collates all training that is available to all localities across North East and North Cumbria, commissioned by The Primary Care Training Hub.
e-Learning for Healthcare
The following resources can be accessed via e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH). E-LfH provides free e-learning programmes which can support you in your professional development. If you do not already have an account, click here to register using your NHS email address. If you already have an account, please use the same link to firstly log in to access the following resources.
- Resources for Nurses Deployed into Primary and Community Care: The learning resources provided here contain essential training materials to support Registered Nurses returning to work or being redeployed into a primary and community setting. This includes, GP surgeries, community and care home settings. The training here is intended to equip you with the basics and get you started and complement any training that you will receive in a local practice setting.
- All Our Health: This course contains the All Our Health bite-sized e-learning sessions to give health and care professionals an overview of topics including key evidence, data and signposting to trusted resources to help prevent illness, protect health and promote wellbeing.
- Wound Care: This e-learning programme aims to support the health and care workforce in developing the knowledge and skills required to enable appropriate wound care to be delivered to people in any setting.
- Dementia: The dementia e-learning modules have been designed to familiarise health and social care staff with approaches they can take to enable people living with dementia and their family carers to live as well as possible.
- Five Ways to Wellbeing: This course introduces the concept of wellbeing and describes how the Five Ways to Wellbeing can be implemented in a variety of settings to promote it.
- : The MECC e-learning programme is designed to support learners in developing an understanding of public health and the factors that impact on a person’s health and wellbeing. It focuses on how asking questions and listening effectively to people is a vital role for us all.
- : This e-Learning resource is aimed at supporting all staff involved in administering the NHS Health Check, including nurses, pharmacists and healthcare assistants.
- : General Practice Nurses work as part of a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) within GP surgeries and assess, screen and treat patients of all ages. In addition to providing traditional aspects of nursing care such as wound care, immunisations and administration of medicines, they run clinics for patients with LTCs.
This list is not exhaustive and the programmes available are regularly updated, so we recommend visiting the e-LfH portal and reviewing the available resources via using the “View full catalogue” function, or the “Search the e-learning" function.
To ensure the role is supported within primary care, New to General Practice Nurses should have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the PCN to provide general advice and support on a day to day basis. Clinical Supervision could be conducted by:
Hold a qualified degree in nursing or registered nursing degree apprenticeship (RNDA). Local universities that offer the above qualification in nursing:
Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and maintains revalidation in line with NMC requirements.
A PCN may claim reimbursement for New to General Practice Nurses and Experienced General Practice Nurses, except where they have held a post in the PCN, or any practice within the PCN, within the previous 12 months unless the nurse is being recruited to a specialist or more senior nursing role.
Professional Body Resources
The Nursing and Midwifery Council have provided guidance on regulations, standards and revalidation.
The Royal College of Nursing have provided background and useful resources for enhanced level nursing.
Role Specifics
The RCN has developed definitions and standards for the enhanced, advanced and consultant levels of nursing to provide clarity for those members of the nursing workforce who aspire to practice at these levels, as well as for employers and higher education institutes (HEIs).
Role Overview
This updated DES 2026/27 outlines the role of the New to General Practice Nurse and what is expected from PCNs (pages 110-111).
This document provides support to work and grow within enhanced practice.
Tools for Practice
Learn more about advanced practitioners and other clinicians working at an enhanced practice level and what they can do to support your multi-disciplinary teams across a wide range of care settings.
Jobs
If you are looking for a new position related to this role, we recommend checking both NHS Jobs and HealthjobsUK.
NHS Jobs is the official online recruitment service for the NHS in England and Wales, with over 30,000 jobs posted every month.
Hosted by trac.jobs, HealthJobsUK is among the leading job boards in the health and public sector within the UK.
