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Lead Practice Nurse GP Surgery
Brixton Hill Group Practice | Brixton, London SW2
Job Type: Permanent | Full-Time or Part-Time
Salary: £48,000 to £53,000, dependent on experience and qualifications
An Exciting Opportunity to Lead, Inspire and Make a Difference
Are you an experienced Practice Nurse ready to take the next step in your career? Or an established Lead Practice Nurse looking for a new opportunity where your experience, ideas and leadership will genuinely be valued?
Brixton Hill Group Practice is seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced Lead Practice Nurse to lead and develop our nursing team.
This is an excellent opportunity for a confident and forward-thinking nursing professional to take a leading role within a well-established, supportive NHS GP training practice in South London.
We are looking for someone who is not only clinically experienced but also passionate about leading others, improving patient care and helping shape the future of our nursing services.
You will have the autonomy to make a meaningful contribution to the practice, supported by an experienced team of GPs and healthcare professionals.
About You
We are seeking a confident, approachable and experienced nursing professional who enjoys taking responsibility, supporting colleagues and delivering excellent patient care.
Main duties of the job
Your key responsibilities will include:
Clinical Leadership and Team Development
Providing professional and clinical leadership to the nursing team, including Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistants. Supporting, mentoring and developing nursing colleagues. Coordinating nursing services and supporting effective team working. Promoting best practice, clinical excellence and a positive working environment. Supporting staff development, training, competency assessments and performance reviews. Working collaboratively with GP Partners and management to improve clinical services. Clinical Responsibilities
Delivering high-quality nursing care and consultations. Leading and supporting chronic disease management, including diabetes, asthma, COPD and hypertension. Undertaking cervical screening, immunisations and vaccinations. Providing wound management, health screening and preventative healthcare. Supporting infection prevention and control. Promoting patient education, health improvement and self-management. Quality Improvement and Governance
Supporting clinical governance, patient safety and quality improvement initiatives. Participating in clinical audits and implementing improvements. Supporting the achievement of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) objectives. Ensuring nursing services operate in accordance with current NHS guidance, CQC requirements and professional standards.
About us
Supporting the development and implementation of clinical policies, protocols and procedures. Identifying opportunities to improve patient access, clinical outcomes and service delivery.
Competitive salary, reflecting your experience, qualifications and leadership responsibilities. A senior clinical position with genuine scope to influence and develop nursing services. Full-time or part-time (no less than 30 hours) working opportunities. 5 weeks' annual leave, pro rata. Access to the NHS Pension Scheme. Ongoing professional development and training opportunities. Support from experienced GP Partners and a collaborative multidisciplinary team. Opportunities to develop specialist clinical interests. A friendly, welcoming and supportive working environment. On-site parking and convenient public transport links. Why Join Us?
This is more than simply another nursing role.
It is an opportunity to become a key member of our clinical leadership team, help develop a high-performing nursing service and make a lasting difference to the health and wellbeing of our patients.
We value the knowledge, experience and ideas our nurses bring to the practice and encourage a culture of mutual respect, professional development and continuous improvement.
If you are looking for a rewarding leadership role where you can combine your passion for nursing with the opportunity to lead and inspire others, we would love to hear from you.
Job description Job responsibilities Job purpose
To provide safe, effective and person-centred nursing care while leading, coordinating and supporting the practice nursing team. The Lead Nurse will provide professional leadership, help maintain consistent clinical standards, oversee agreed nursing systems and provide assurance to the Practice Partners and management team. The post holder remains personally accountable for their own clinical practice and does not replace the individual professional accountability of other registered clinicians.
Accountability framework Each registered nurse remains professionally accountable for their own decisions, actions, omissions, competence and compliance with the NMC Code.
The Lead Nurse is accountable for the reasonable leadership, coordination, monitoring and escalation functions allocated to the role, including acting when concerns are identified.
The Lead Nurse is not automatically personally accountable for every act or omission of another clinician merely because they lead the nursing team.
Where work is delegated, the Lead Nurse must ensure that delegation is appropriate, instructions are clear, and the person accepting the task has the necessary competence and support.
Ultimate organisational and employer accountability remains with the Practice Partners and the practice management structure. Significant clinical, staffing, safety or resource concerns must be escalated promptly.
The scope of the role must be supported by appropriate authority, protected leadership time, access to information, and agreed reporting arrangements.
Key duties and responsibilities1. Clinical practice Provide nursing treatments independently or with GPs, within professional competence and agreed practice protocols.
Undertake general and specific health assessment and screening, referring to a GP or other appropriate clinician when required.
Provide services applicable to the practice, which may include cervical screening, immunisations, wound care, blood pressure monitoring, family planning, chronic disease management, healthy living advice, venepuncture and new-patient assessment.
Maintain accurate, contemporaneous patient records and relevant activity data.
Work in accordance with the NMC Code, evidence-based practice, local pathways, patient group directions and practice policies relevant to the service delivered.
Maintain confidentiality, informed consent, safeguarding awareness and appropriate clinical escalation.
2. Professional leadership and team coordination Provide visible day-to-day professional leadership for the nursing team and promote a supportive, respectful and learning-focused culture.
Coordinate nursing workload and deployment within the authority and resources agreed by the Practice Partners and management team.
Clarify roles, responsibilities and expected standards across the nursing team.
Support induction, supervision, mentoring and development of nurses, nursing associates, healthcare assistants, students and other learners, within the post holders competence.
Hold or contribute to regular nursing team meetings, communicate agreed actions and monitor completion.
Identify capability, conduct, health, wellbeing or performance concerns and escalate or address them through the appropriate practice process. Formal employment decisions remain with authorised managers or Partners.
Support recruitment and appraisal activity where requested and appropriately trained.
3. Clinical governance, quality and safety Coordinate nursing-related audits, quality improvement activity and reviews of clinical practice, with actions recorded, allocated and followed up.
Monitor adherence to agreed nursing protocols and identify where policies, training or systems require review.
Promote effective incident reporting, learning and implementation of agreed actions. Escalate serious or recurring concerns promptly.
Support the investigation and clinical review of complaints relating to nursing services, while ensuring the practice complaints process and responsible manager are followed.
Contribute nursing evidence and assurance for CQC readiness, infection prevention and control, safeguarding, medicines and vaccine governance, cold-chain management, emergency preparedness and other applicable regulatory requirements.
Review relevant nursing performance, safety and service information and provide proportionate assurance reports to the Practice Partners and management team.
Work with the practice safeguarding, infection prevention, medicines and other designated leads. The Lead Nurse only holds a named lead portfolio where this has been expressly allocated, supported and documented.
4. Workforce competence, training and professional registration Maintain an overview of role-relevant nursing competencies, mandatory training and professional registration checks through agreed practice systems.
Identify training needs and support an annual or role-based training plan for the nursing team.
Ensure staff are not knowingly allocated work outside confirmed competence and escalate any gaps that affect safe service delivery.
Provide or arrange clinical supervision and learning opportunities within available resources.
Maintain the post holders own NMC registration, continuing professional development, required training and evidence of competence.
Undertake or coordinate competency assessments where the Lead Practice Nurse is appropriately trained, competent and authorised to assess the relevant area of practice.
Maintain an agreed competency framework and assurance record for nursing staff and healthcare assistants, identifying gaps, supervision requirements and review dates.
Ensure effective induction and preceptorship arrangements are in place for new members of the nursing team, proportionate to their experience and role.
5. Clinical systems, supplies and service delivery Oversee agreed systems for vaccines, medicines, clinical stock, equipment, emergency medicines, consumables and associated records, with specific tasks delegated to competent staff where appropriate.
Ensure identified equipment or supply issues are acted upon or escalated to the responsible manager.
Contribute to safe, effective use of the clinical system, templates, coding and recall processes relevant to nursing services.
Help plan and improve nursing services according to patient need, practice priorities, commissioned requirements and available capacity.
Liaise as appropriate with GPs, managers, pharmacies, community services, commissioners, local authorities, social care and voluntary organisations.
Contribute to nursing workforce planning, skills-mix review, clinic design, rota planning, annual leave coordination and service-capacity reviews, with final staffing decisions remaining with authorised managers or Practice Partners.
Monitor nursing capacity and identify where staffing levels, skill mix or clinical demand may affect patient access, safety or service delivery, escalating concerns appropriately.
Support delivery and monitoring of nursing contributions to QOF, enhanced services, locally commissioned services and other agreed practice clinical targets, while maintaining safe, individualised patient care.
Oversee the effective use of nursing templates, SNOMED coding, clinical searches, recall systems and data-quality processes relevant to nursing services.
6. Policy, audit and improvement Lead or contribute to the development, review and implementation of nursing policies, protocols, standard operating procedures and clinical pathways.
Participate in research, audit and quality improvement approved by the practice.
Identify areas requiring improvement, agree proportionate actions with relevant leads and monitor progress.
Promote equality, dignity, patient involvement and reduction of health inequalities within nursing services.
Act as, or support, the practice Infection Prevention and Control Lead where this portfolio is expressly allocated, including completion of audits, maintenance of action plans, staff training, monitoring and provision of assurance evidence.
Where the IPC Lead portfolio is not allocated to the post holder, work closely with the named IPC Lead and support implementation of agreed IPC actions across the nursing team.
Support governance of vaccine storage and cold-chain processes, including monitoring, incident escalation and implementation of learning, within the responsibilities allocated by the practice.
7. Information governance, health and safety and security Follow practice requirements for confidentiality, information governance, data protection, record security and safe use of clinical systems.
Comply with practice health and safety, fire, infection prevention, specimen handling, lone working, violence and aggression, accident and security procedures.
Report incidents, hazards, near misses and concerns through the correct practice process and ensure urgent matters are escalated.
Promote safe handling, storage and disposal of clinical equipment, medicines, vaccines, specimens and waste.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
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Desirable
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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 Brixton Hill Group Practice
Address Brixton Hill Group Practice
22 Raleigh Gardens
London
SW2 1AE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.brixtonhillgp.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)