Nurse Lead

About The Role
Practice Plus Group delivers Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) services across Surrey, Suffolk, North East Essex and London. This means that we will be delivering urgent care through NHS 111, utilising GPs and specialist clinicians to deliver the best possible urgentcare services 24/7, 365 days per year, to over 1 million patients in the region.
If you have the passion and desire to driver and deliver a better urgent care service to the people that matter then look no further, as this could be the job for you
The Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Urgent Care service encompasses the Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) and North East Essex Out of Hours (OOH)
The position of IUC Nurse Lead is a dual managerial and clinical lead role upholding the delivery of a quality and safe service for patients accessing Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE) IUC services.
This is position will require you to cover 15 hours of Management and a minimum 10 Clinical hours per week.
The role requires the post holder to practice autonomously as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and support the local IUC Medical lead and Service Manager (Registered CQC Manager) in various aspects of the IUCS management to ensure high quality performance andgovernance of the IUCS.
The post holder is expected to provide line management and supervision for other health professionals within the IUCS.
They will promote and support the IUCS clinical audits and undertake quality assurance and governance activities.
The post holder will have an active role in recruitment, training and development to help promote and deliver a safe and efficient service.
There may be a requirement to work with external stakeholders including Commissioners and Quality leads and represent the IUCS at external meetings.
You will be working within a Multi-Disciplinary Team in the CAS which consists of GPs/ANPs, Registered Nurses, UCPs, Mental Health and Dental Nurses and Prescribing Pharmacists and Pharmacy Advisors.
**What We Can Offer You**:

- Competitive salary + benefits
- Company Pension
- Indemnity Cover
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with service up to 28 days per year + bank holidays
- Varied, interesting and challenging work
- Cycle to work scheme
- Online discounts

**How we can Support You**:

- Regional and National career development opportunities
- Regular clinical supervision and education events, including the opportunity to have a weekly case discussion with the Medical Lead
- Bimonthly evening meals/clinical updates for the team, where we also invite external speakers
- Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
- Discounted rates for national update/clinical topic refreshers
- Support from the wider team, should you need it.

To be considered for this role, you would need to:

- Be an autonomous Advanced Nurse Practitioner with a patient assessment qualification
- Recent work experience within a Primary/Urgent Care environment
- Hold an independent prescribing qualification
- Hold an NMC Pin
- Be able to see, treat and discharge patients of all ages with unscheduled presentations
- Up to date with revalidation
- Masters levelqualification
- Substantial post qualification practice, with recent experience in Primary Care or Urgent Care

About The Company
Practice Plus Group is passionate about great healthcare. We believe that anyone should be able to access excellent care, whether via the NHS or privately. Our breadth of expertise spans surgery, diagnostics, general practice, offender health and urgent care,with an unrivalled range of different services provided across the country. We’re proud to be at the forefront of developing new and exciting ways to support the nation’s health too, helping patients to maximise their wellbeing and live life to the full.
When you’re part of the Practice Plus Group team, you don’t just have a job. You have a career. We work with you to help you grow in your role and take your career in the direction you want to go. We’ll help you be the best you can be.
We want our team members to feel motivated and rewarded. So we offer a competitive package of pay and benefits. We also recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance - so we always try to be flexible, helping you fit your working life around your homelife.
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Practice Plus Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.