Lead Practice Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has risen to join our friendly, enthusiastic and well established Practice in Sherwood with a patient list of 9,300,and were recruiting a new Lead Nurse as our current Lead Nurse retires.

We offer a 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 skilled team of Clinical Staff.

If you are interested andwould like to discuss the role before applying, please feel free to contactJustyna Pawlaczyk at

Hourly wage: £23-£25+, negotiable, depending on experience.

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

We are known for integrity, and our ability to adapt to changes in Primary Care.

Elmswood Surgery is a 6 Partner, high achieving training practice, providing excellent patient are known for integrity, and our ability to adapt to changes in Primary have a list size of approx. 9300. We are based close to town centre with excellent transport links.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Equality, Diversity andInclusion

A good attitude and positiveaction towards Equality Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) creates an environmentwhere all individuals can achieve their full potential.

Patients have aresponsibility to treat other patients and our staff with dignity and respect.

Staff have the right to betreated fairly in recruitment and career progression. Staff can expect to workin an environment where diversity is valued, and equality of opportunity ispromoted. Staff will not be discriminated against on any grounds including age,disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy andmaternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Staff have aresponsibility to ensure that they treat our patients and their colleagues withdignity and respect.

Safety, Health, Environmentand Fire (SHEF)

This organisation iscommitted to supporting and promoting opportunities for staff to maintain theirhealth, wellbeing and safety.

Confidentiality

The organisation is committedto maintaining an outstanding confidential service. Patients entrust and permitus to collect and retain sensitive information relating to their health andother matters pertaining to their care. They do so in confidence and have aright to expect all staff will respect their privacy and maintainconfidentiality.

Quality and ContinuousImprovement (CI)

To preserve and improve thequality of this organisations outputs, all personnel are required to think notonly of what they do but how they achieve it. By continually re-examining ourprocesses, we will be able to develop and improve the overall effectiveness ofthe way we work.

Induction

At Elmswood you will berequired to complete the induction programme and the practice t team willsupport you throughout the process.

Learning and development

The effective use of trainingand development is fundamental in ensuring that all staff are equipped with theappropriate skills, knowledge, attitude and competences to perform their role.All staff will be required to partake in and complete mandatory training asdirected by Heidi/ Practice Manager. It is an expectation for this post holderto assess their own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.

Collaborative working

All staff are to recognisethe significance of collaborative working and understand their own role andscope and identify how this may develop over time. Staff are to prioritisetheir own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embeddedwithin the culture of the team.

Professional conduct

All staff are required todress appropriately for their role.

Job description

The followingare the core responsibilities of the lead practice nurse. There may be, onoccasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent uponfactors such as workload and staffing levels: As the Clinical lead, you willhave overall line management responsibility for the Practice Nursing TeamProvide clinical leadership to the nursing team Mentor new nursing staffSupport the development of others to maximise staff potential in the team.Identify the potential for service developments, risk and deficits and informpractice manager making recommendations based on specialist knowledge Undertakeone-to-ones, joint appraisals, regular Practice Nurse and HCA meetings,clinical education, and other practice-wide learning events and meetings.

To provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance withclinical based evidence, local area prescribing guidelines NICE. Play a keyrole in our clinical governance and overall practice management team. Act as aclinical leader in the delivery of practice nursing services to patients,ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority. Attend regular nursingmeetings. Lead the nursing team in the planning and implementation of localguidelines, protocols, and standards, as well as local projects or initiatives. Ensure health and safety and infection control are high priorities, supportedby other members of the team. Work with our Practice Management team to ensurewe monitor practice performance of QOF and enhanced services regularly toachieve high standards of patient care. Take responsibility for owndevelopment, learning, and performance, including organising clinicalsupervision where appropriate and acting as a positive role model. Work tosupport staff wellbeing and development. Quality improvement Meet CQC standards Work with colleagues and management teamto ensure that we focus our clinical time to maximum benefit of patients andthat our systems and processes support staff to focus on what matters most. Tooversee the provision of wound care services to patients. To co-ordinate theprovision of travel medicine services. To maintain accurate clinical records inconjunction with existing legislation. To ensure read codes are usedeffectively by all members of the nursing team. To prioritise health issues andintervene appropriately. To support the team in dealing with clinicalemergencies. To implement vaccination programmes for adults and children and tolead on vaccine updates / ensure current national vaccine guidelines are beingfollowed and develop and maintain vaccine protocols. To order imms and vaccs,to liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supportedappropriately (vulnerable patients etc.) To delegate clinical responsibilitiesappropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope ofpractice of the individual) To support the clinical team with all safeguardingmatters in accordance with local and national policies. To deliveropportunistic health promotion where appropriate. To check/ update PGD anupdate protocols (with support from GPs and Practice Management) To be responsible for ensuring maximum optimisation of use of appointmentsacross the nursing coordinate and organise HCA clinics, training andpersonal development.

Toorder/monitor stock, maintain drugcupboard and practice supplies.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Experience of working in a Primary Care setting.

Desirable

Experience of working as Practice Nurse Lead

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