Job summary As an IUC Clinical Lead, you will play a key leadership role within Practice Plus IUC's London Out of Hours service, combining advanced clinical practice with operational leadership. This part-time position offers 15 hours per week and provides the flexibility to work predominantly remotely, with occasional travel to our Uxbridge and Putney sites for meetings, service activities and key stakeholder engagement. Working autonomously as an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will ensure patients receive safe, effective, high-quality urgent care while supporting the service to achieve its clinical, quality and performance objectives. You will work closely with Service Managers, Medical Leads and senior colleagues to strengthen clinical governance, workforce development and continuous improvement across. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will have the opportunity to undertake clinical sessions across the service, either remotely or face-to-face depending on the session type. You will provide oversight in areas including safeguarding, medicines management and patient safety while supporting innovation and service redesign. As a key member of the senior leadership team, you will also play an integral role in recruitment, conducting interviews and assessing new ANPs and ACPs against agreed competency frameworks. This is an opportunity to combine clinical expertise, people leadership and strategic thinking to help shape the future of urgent care services.

Main duties of the job Lead and deliver high-quality clinical care as a senior autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary urgent care team. Oversee medicines management processes, ensuring safe pathways, compliance, audit completion and effective stock governance. Provide clinical leadership for safeguarding, including supervision, pathway development and liaison with external agencies. Drive recruitment, induction, mentoring and professional development of the non-medical workforce. Investigate complaints, incidents and patient safety events, producing reports, shared learning and quality improvements. Promote clinical governance through supervision, appraisal, competency assessment and adherence to professional standards. Lead service improvement, workforce planning and practice development initiatives across the service. Support managers with clinical decision-making, risk management, business continuity and operational challenges. Build effective relationships across teams and partner organisations, influencing best practice and positive patient outcomes.

About us Current registration with the NMC, HCPC or General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), with up-to-date revalidation. Advanced Clinical Practice Master's level qualification or an equivalent accredited pathway. Extensive recent experience in a supervisory, leadership or managerial clinical role. Significant post-qualification experience within urgent, emergency, unscheduled or primary care settings. Strong understanding of Integrated Urgent Care services, clinical governance and quality standards. Excellent communication, leadership, coaching and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence and inspire others. Safeguarding knowledge with Level 3 safeguarding or a commitment to achieve it, alongside awareness of the Mental Capacity Act and professional development requirements. Ability to analyse clinical information, make complex decisions and work effectively under pressure in a collaborative environment. For more information, please see the downloadable Job Description attached to the advert. Or to talk to the lead recruiter for this role, please contact Michael Shepherd - [email protected] Please note that offers of employment are subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a DBS check. Practice Plus Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. #LI-MS1 #PracticePlusGroup #IUC

Job description Job responsibilities As an IUC Clinical Lead, you will play a key leadership role within Practice Plus IUC's London Out of Hours service, combining advanced clinical practice with operational leadership. This part-time position offers 15 hours per week and provides the flexibility to work predominantly remotely, with occasional travel to our Uxbridge and Putney sites for meetings, service activities and key stakeholder engagement. Working autonomously as an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will ensure patients receive safe, effective, high-quality urgent care while supporting the service to achieve its clinical, quality and performance objectives. You will work closely with Service Managers, Medical Leads and senior colleagues to strengthen clinical governance, workforce development and continuous improvement across. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will have the opportunity to undertake clinical sessions across the service, either remotely or face-to-face depending on the session type. You will provide oversight in areas including safeguarding, medicines management and patient safety while supporting innovation and service redesign. As a key member of the senior leadership team, you will also play an integral role in recruitment, conducting interviews and assessing new ANPs and ACPs against agreed competency frameworks. This is an opportunity to combine clinical expertise, people leadership and strategic thinking to help shape the future of urgent care services.

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