Job summary
Lead Nurse Primary Care Services
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week
Place of Work: Princes Risborough and Clinic locations at Buckinghamshire
Salary: In the range of £42,000 £47,000 dependant on experience
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has opened for a Lead Nurse to join our clinical team at FedBucks. The successful candidate will be responsible with the Lead GP for PCS in ensuring a high level of clinical care and governance is provided to patients, meeting all statutory and regulatory requirements, and leading the clinical team, providing strong clinical knowledge, leadership to ensure the highest standards are achieved in all areas of the services including patient management, audits, and clinical care.
You will also will provide support and leadership to the clinical and operational staff within PCS Services. This will include providing clinical advice to deliver the Services, managing audits, participate on quality meetings and making sure that PCS services are compliant to all CQC legislation.
About us
FedBucks
is a federation of 47 GP practices covering a population of over 485,000
patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200
members of staff across our head office sites, and our planned and unplanned
care services.
As
a GP Federation, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion
primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the
provision of community-based healthcare services. We provide safe and
compassionate care to our patients across our range of planned and unplanned
healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to
quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.
Patients
are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our
patients feel safe, supported, communicated with, and respected, at a time when
they may be feeling vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless
health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling
supported and cared for.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for directing and supporting team of HCAs to ensure patients receive excellent standards of care.
- Support the clinicians recruitment to recruit competent and skilled staff to all vacancies.
- Build strong relationships with local regulator/providers and Social Services
- Comply to all CQC legislation.
- Manage and monitor medication process to ensure 100% compliance.
- Complete all relevant audits to ensure compliance both internally and externally.
- Review clinical pathways
- Participate on clinical and quality meetings
- Contribute to discussions within FedBucks on the development of the Services and expansions, sharing experience and learning from working in the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for directing and supporting team of HCAs to ensure patients receive excellent standards of care.
- Support the clinicians recruitment to recruit competent and skilled staff to all vacancies.
- Build strong relationships with local regulator/providers and Social Services
- Comply to all CQC legislation.
- Manage and monitor medication process to ensure 100% compliance.
- Complete all relevant audits to ensure compliance both internally and externally.
- Review clinical pathways
- Participate on clinical and quality meetings
- Contribute to discussions within FedBucks on the development of the Services and expansions, sharing experience and learning from working in the service.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Proven post registration experience working in Primary care
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable
- Evidence of participation in clinical supervision either in the supervised or supervisor role
- Experience in leading on safeguarding issues
- Evidence of teaching and assessing others
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st level Registered Nurse with current registration within the UK
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development CPD
- Basic Life Support
Desirable
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- V300 Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
- Basic IT skills
- Demonstrable evidence of multi-professional multi-agency working
- Ability to prioritise patient care
- Fully understanding of equal opportunities diversity and cultural issue which may arise in the role
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Proven post registration experience working in Primary care
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable
- Evidence of participation in clinical supervision either in the supervised or supervisor role
- Experience in leading on safeguarding issues
- Evidence of teaching and assessing others
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st level Registered Nurse with current registration within the UK
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development CPD
- Basic Life Support
Desirable
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- V300 Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
- Basic IT skills
- Demonstrable evidence of multi-professional multi-agency working
- Ability to prioritise patient care
- Fully understanding of equal opportunities diversity and cultural issue which may arise in the role
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).
