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The Groves Medical Group

Group Nurse Manager

The closing date is 04 August 2025

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Job summary

About the Role

This pivotal role is essential in advancing the quality of patient care and promoting clinical excellence across our network of practices. The Group Nurse Manager will provide strategic leadership and professional oversight to our nursing team, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate care for our patients.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and oversee the delivery of safe, effective, and person-centered nursing care across all sites.
  • Provide clinical leadership, mentorship, and support to the nursing and healthcare assistant (HCA) teams.
  • Ensure full compliance with clinical governance frameworks, infection prevention protocols, and quality improvement initiatives.
  • Work in close collaboration with site leads to coordinate clinical governance and infection control measures.
  • Develop and maintain robust documentation of training records, competencies, and professional development for nursing staff and HCAs.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will:

  • Lead and coordinate the nursing and healthcare assistant teams, including managing annual and study leave, rota planning, and ensuring clinic cover across sites.

  • Take responsibility for clinical leadership, including 1:1s, appraisals, training, and mentorship within the nursing team.

  • Serve as the Infection Prevention Control (IPC) Lead, overseeing compliance, audits, training, and the annual IPC statement.

  • Develop and embed care management programmes for frail and housebound patients.

  • Deliver and oversee chronic disease management, routine nursing care, health promotion initiatives, vaccination programmes, and acute care interventions within scope of practice.

  • Prescribe and manage medications in accordance with clinical guidelines, PGDs, and scope of practice.

  • Work collaboratively with the wider practice team, partners, patients, carers, and external agencies to ensure seamless patient care and safety.

  • Take a key role in safeguarding, mental health triage, and clinical governance, participating in audits, RCA reviews, and policy implementation.

  • Lead on Nurse recruitment, retention, and CQC compliance matters relevant to the nursing team.

About us

Groves Health is a well-established and trusted provider of primary care services in South West London and Surrey. Over the past decade, we have grown from a single practice in New Malden to a multidisciplinary team of over 100 professionals, delivering high-quality care across four sites: New Malden, Richmond, Wimbledon, and Hinchley Wood.

As our services continue to expand, we are excited to offer a new opportunity for an experienced and dynamicGroup Nurse Managerto join our leadership team.

Details

Date posted

16 June 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A2885-25-0003

Job locations

171 Clarence Avenue

New Malden

Kingston

KT3 3TX


Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

  1. Leadership & Management

    • Lead, support, and manage teams of practice nurses, healthcare assistants (HCAs), and other clinical support staff across practices.

    • Ensure consistency in care standards and adherence to clinical governance frameworks.

    • Coordinate recruitment, training, and development of nursing staff.

  2. Clinical Oversight

    • Ensure safe, evidence-based clinical practices.

    • Support chronic disease management protocols (e.g., diabetes, asthma, hypertension).

    • Lead on vaccination programs, wound care, and other nursing-led services.

  3. Quality Assurance & Compliance

    • Ensure practices comply with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards.

    • Monitor clinical audits, incident reports, and patient safety metrics.

    • Promote continuous quality improvement across practices.

  4. Strategic Development

    • Contribute to business planning, workforce development, and service redesign.

    • Implement new models of care (e.g., multidisciplinary team working).

    • Align nursing services with local Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and Primary Care Networks (PCNs).

  5. Resource & Workforce Planning

    • Manage staffing rotas, caseload distribution, and resource allocation.

    • Assess future workforce needs and training gaps.

  6. Communication & Collaboration

    • Act as a liaison between nurses, GPs, practice managers, and external stakeholders.

    • Facilitate information sharing, policy updates, and best practices across sites.

Importance in Primary Care

  • Ensuring safe, consistent care delivery across multiple practices.

  • Empowering nursing teams to work at the top of their license.

  • Driving innovations in primary care, especially as healthcare shifts toward integrated, preventative models.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

  1. Leadership & Management

    • Lead, support, and manage teams of practice nurses, healthcare assistants (HCAs), and other clinical support staff across practices.

    • Ensure consistency in care standards and adherence to clinical governance frameworks.

    • Coordinate recruitment, training, and development of nursing staff.

  2. Clinical Oversight

    • Ensure safe, evidence-based clinical practices.

    • Support chronic disease management protocols (e.g., diabetes, asthma, hypertension).

    • Lead on vaccination programs, wound care, and other nursing-led services.

  3. Quality Assurance & Compliance

    • Ensure practices comply with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards.

    • Monitor clinical audits, incident reports, and patient safety metrics.

    • Promote continuous quality improvement across practices.

  4. Strategic Development

    • Contribute to business planning, workforce development, and service redesign.

    • Implement new models of care (e.g., multidisciplinary team working).

    • Align nursing services with local Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and Primary Care Networks (PCNs).

  5. Resource & Workforce Planning

    • Manage staffing rotas, caseload distribution, and resource allocation.

    • Assess future workforce needs and training gaps.

  6. Communication & Collaboration

    • Act as a liaison between nurses, GPs, practice managers, and external stakeholders.

    • Facilitate information sharing, policy updates, and best practices across sites.

Importance in Primary Care

  • Ensuring safe, consistent care delivery across multiple practices.

  • Empowering nursing teams to work at the top of their license.

  • Driving innovations in primary care, especially as healthcare shifts toward integrated, preventative models.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse (typically with a background in general practice or community nursing).
  • Leadership/management qualifications (e.g., MSc in Nursing Leadership, ILM Level 5+).
  • Strong understanding of primary care systems, commissioning, and population health needs.
  • Excellent communication, organizational, and change management skills.
  • Ability to demonstrate experience in Coaching & Mentoring,
  • Training and Development, Strategic Thinking and Change Management.

Desirable

  • Human Resources and Payroll
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse (typically with a background in general practice or community nursing).
  • Leadership/management qualifications (e.g., MSc in Nursing Leadership, ILM Level 5+).
  • Strong understanding of primary care systems, commissioning, and population health needs.
  • Excellent communication, organizational, and change management skills.
  • Ability to demonstrate experience in Coaching & Mentoring,
  • Training and Development, Strategic Thinking and Change Management.

Desirable

  • Human Resources and Payroll

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

The Groves Medical Group

Address

171 Clarence Avenue

New Malden

Kingston

KT3 3TX


Employer's website

https://www.thegrovesnhs.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

The Groves Medical Group

Address

171 Clarence Avenue

New Malden

Kingston

KT3 3TX


Employer's website

https://www.thegrovesnhs.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Group HR and Workforce Manager

Carly Nareydoo

carly.nareydoo@nhs.net

02083366565

Details

Date posted

16 June 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A2885-25-0003

Job locations

171 Clarence Avenue

New Malden

Kingston

KT3 3TX


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