Job responsibilities
Clinical Leadership
- Provide clinical leadership and supervision for nursing staff, ensuring high standards of care across all nursing services.
- Deliver and coordinate clinical services including chronic disease management e.g., diabetes, COPD, hypertension immunisations, vaccinations, and health promotion.
- Lead on annual vaccination programmes including stock control (supported by the nursing team)
- Undertake advanced clinical duties such as immunisation delivery, cervical cytology,
- wound care, blood tests, ECGs, and other clinical procedures as required by the practice.
- Provide or support nurse-led clinics and autonomous clinical decision-making within scope of practice.
- Support adherence to national and local clinical guidelines and evidence-based practice.
Service Development & Quality Improvement
- Identify opportunities and lead initiatives to develop nursing services to meet practice priorities and patient needs.
- Contribute to achieving practice performance targets (e.g., Quality and Outcomes Framework, immunisation targets).
- Promote clinical governance, audit, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.
Team Leadership & Management
- Lead, mentor, and supervise the nursing team, including registered nurses, nurse associates and healthcare assistants.
- Recruitment, induction, appraisal and development of nursing staff
- Working alongside the rota team, manage nursing rotas and contribute to team workload planning
- Carry out annual appraisals and monitoring CPD
- Lead on nursing standards, protocols and best practice
- Support quality improvement and service development
- Encouraging a positive, open and supportive team culture
- Helping to manage risk, safety and complaints processes
- Practice infection control Lead
Health, Safety & Infection Control:
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control. This will include (but will not be limited to):
Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
Management and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practice, including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing correct usage by staff
Responsible for hand hygiene across the practice
Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that provision of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc. are sufficient to ensure a good
clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
Safe management of sharps procedures, including training, use, storage and disposal
Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile way, safe and free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers
Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
Waste management, including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection
Spillage control procedures, management and training
Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance
Maintenance of sterile environments
Communication & Collaboration
- Work closely with GP Partners, Business Manager Practice Manager, other clinicians and admin staff to integrate nursing services with the wider practice and PCN.
- Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and teams to support care delivery and practice goals.
- Attend and contribute to clinical and practice meetings.
Education & Development
- Support training and professional development of nursing staff and students.
- Promote a learning environment and disseminate new clinical knowledge, guidelines and best practice.