Practice Nurse Development Team

What the team do?

The Practice Nurse Development Team provides support to General Practices in Liverpool as follows:

• The team consists of experienced band 6 Practice Nurses and an experienced Band 4
• We provide clinical support to GP practice’s within Liverpool were they currently have a nurse vacancy, a long term sickness or maternity leave.
• We also provide back fill if your nurse is undertaking external study such as V300.
• We mentor Nurses new to general practice with our bespoke mentorship programme.
• We mentor Health Care Assistants new to the role with our bespoke mentorship programme.
• When providing clinical support to the practice we will see your patients with long term conditions, we will also provide cervical screening, together with baby and adult immunisations.
• The team are also the Primary Cytology Assessors for those who have undertaken the Liverpool University Novice Sample Taker Course, and we work very closely with the trainers, we will provide final assessments for Practice Nurses, Nursing Associate, GP Registrar’s and Physician Associates.