Job summary
An exciting opportunity has
arisen to join a small, friendly and dedicated team at The Calow and Brimington
Practice as a Lead Practice Nurse. All working hours will be considered.
We offer a friendly, supportive
working environment with a commitment to providing ongoing professional
development with scope to develop areas of own interest/expertise. You will be
supported by a skilled team of GPs, ANP, Nurses, TNA/HCAs along with an
excellent non-clinical team working across two sites.
Main duties of the job
The Lead Nurse will provide
clinical and professional leadership to the nursing and healthcare assistant
team. The post holder will ensure nursing services are delivered effectively to
the patient population.
Our ideal candidate will have
drive, dedication, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude. They will provide effective and high standard
care to patients including, all chronic disease management, wound care,
cervical cytology, ear care and other duties.
The post holder will line manage
the nursing and healthcare assistant team, ensuring high quality patient centred
care is delivered and facilitate their professional development.
The Lead Nurse is responsible
for leading and directing the development of new services and patient care
pathways, ensuring they match the needs of patients.
About us
The Calow and Brimington
Practice is a 3 Partner, high achieving training and dispensing practice,
providing excellent patient care. We have a list size of approx. 7850. we are
based close to Chesterfield town centre with good transport links.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Lead Practice Nurse. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- As the clinical lead, you will have overall line management responsibility for the practice nursing/HCA team
- Provide clinical leadership to the nursing/HCA team
- Act as Infection Control Lead for the practice, ensuring policies are up to date, managing the practice to ensure we are achieving and maintaining standards and requirements
- Mentor new nursing staff
- Support the development of others to maximise staff potential in the team
- Identify the potential for service developments, risk and deficits and inform practice manager making recommendations based on specialist knowledge
- Undertake one-to-ones, appraisals, clinical education, and other practice-wide learning events and meetings
- To provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Play a key role in our practice management team
- Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of practice nursing services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority
- Lead the nursing/HCA team in the planning and implementation of local guidelines, protocols, and standards, as well as local projects or initiatives
- Work with our practice management team to ensure we monitor practice performance of QOF and enhanced services regularly to achieve high standards of patient care
- Take responsibility for own development, learning, and performance, including organising clinical supervision where appropriate and acting as a positive role model
- Work to support staff wellbeing and development
- Quality improvement
- Meet CQC standards
- Work with colleagues and management team to ensure that we focus our clinical time to maximum benefit of patients and that our systems and processes support staff to focus on what matters most
- To oversee the provision of wound care services to patients
- To co-ordinate the provision of travel medicine services
- To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with existing legislation
- To ensure read codes are used effectively by all members of the nursing/HCA team
- To chaperone patients where necessary
- To prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- To support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
- To implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
- To delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
- To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
- To deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- To be responsible for ensuring maximum optimisation of use of appointments across the nursing/HCA team
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Lead Practice Nurse. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- As the clinical lead, you will have overall line management responsibility for the practice nursing/HCA team
- Provide clinical leadership to the nursing/HCA team
- Act as Infection Control Lead for the practice, ensuring policies are up to date, managing the practice to ensure we are achieving and maintaining standards and requirements
- Mentor new nursing staff
- Support the development of others to maximise staff potential in the team
- Identify the potential for service developments, risk and deficits and inform practice manager making recommendations based on specialist knowledge
- Undertake one-to-ones, appraisals, clinical education, and other practice-wide learning events and meetings
- To provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Play a key role in our practice management team
- Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of practice nursing services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority
- Lead the nursing/HCA team in the planning and implementation of local guidelines, protocols, and standards, as well as local projects or initiatives
- Work with our practice management team to ensure we monitor practice performance of QOF and enhanced services regularly to achieve high standards of patient care
- Take responsibility for own development, learning, and performance, including organising clinical supervision where appropriate and acting as a positive role model
- Work to support staff wellbeing and development
- Quality improvement
- Meet CQC standards
- Work with colleagues and management team to ensure that we focus our clinical time to maximum benefit of patients and that our systems and processes support staff to focus on what matters most
- To oversee the provision of wound care services to patients
- To co-ordinate the provision of travel medicine services
- To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with existing legislation
- To ensure read codes are used effectively by all members of the nursing/HCA team
- To chaperone patients where necessary
- To prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- To support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
- To implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
- To delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
- To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
- To deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- To be responsible for ensuring maximum optimisation of use of appointments across the nursing/HCA team
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a Primary Care setting
- Experience of SystmOne clinical system
Desirable
- Experience of working as Practice Nurse Lead
- Experience of working as Infection Control lead
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council)
- Cervical cytology trained
- Chronic disease management training, particularly including diabetes, asthma, COPD, CHD
Desirable
- Infection control training
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a Primary Care setting
- Experience of SystmOne clinical system
Desirable
- Experience of working as Practice Nurse Lead
- Experience of working as Infection Control lead
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council)
- Cervical cytology trained
- Chronic disease management training, particularly including diabetes, asthma, COPD, CHD
Desirable
- Infection control training
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).
