About this role
Job summary
ABOUT THE ROLE
PICS is seeking an experienced and passionate nursing leader to join our team as a PCN Lead Nurse focusing on the Mid Nottinghamshire geographical location. This is an exciting opportunity to provide professional leadership and clinical oversight to nursing teams working across Primary Care Networks (PCNs) throughout Mid Nottinghamshire.
As a key clinical leader, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality nursing care by Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates, and General Practice Assistants, Student Nursing Associates employed by PICS on behalf of PCNs. You will work closely with PCN and PICS leadership teams to provide assurance around clinical quality, patient safety, workforce development, and service improvement.
This is a highly visible role that offers the opportunity to influence the strategic development of nursing services across primary care while supporting and developing a skilled and motivated nursing workforce.
The role requires the postholder to travel regularly across multiple PCN and PICS sites throughout Nottinghamshire to attend face-to-face meetings. The position operates on a hybrid working model, combining office-based working across Nottinghamshire locations with the flexibility to work from home where service requirements allow
Main duties of the job
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide professional leadership to the PCN nurses (RGNs, Nurse Associates and General Practice Assistants), maximising the performance of individuals and the efficiency and effectiveness of the teams, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality services for patients.
- Support the nursing teams in contributing to meeting PCN targets, encouraging flexibility in roles to meet changing demands
- Ensure nursing staff actively implement safeguarding protocols for children and vulnerable adults and to know who to refer to and how to escalate concerns about radicalisation.
ABOUT THE CANDIDATE
We're looking for a motivated and experienced nursing professional who can inspire teams and champion excellence in patient care.
You will ideally have
- Current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse.
- Significant experience working within primary care, community services, or a related healthcare setting.
- Experience of leading, managing, and developing clinical teams.
- Strong knowledge of clinical governance, quality improvement, safeguarding, risk management, and professional standards.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Current registered Nurse (NMC) and masters level of education.
- Ability to manage and prioritise workload
- Sole and exclusive use of a suitable Motor Vehicle with business insurance.
About us
PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solution through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us: http://picsnhs.org.uk/.
Benefits of working for PICS
We offer a comprehensive package which includes
- NHS Pension 2015 Scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Alternative government-based scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Competitive leave entitlement that includes maternity, paternity and adoption leave, study leave allowance, and sickness provisions
- Access to education and training opportunities, depending on your role (CPPE Pharmacy, NHS England Roadmap for First Contact Practitioners, apprenticeship schemes, support professional development)
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team with support from a wide variety of professionals
- A flexible approach to a work-life balance
- Cycle to work scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme
- All staff events and conferences
- Staff engagement (Wellbeing Group, EDI Network, Staff Focus group)
- Free parking across many sites
- Personalised induction into the company and job role
Job description
Job responsibilities
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP OF PCN NURSING TEAMS
- Provide professional leadership to the PCN nurses (RGNs, Nurse Associates and General Practice Assistants), maximising the performance of individuals and the efficiency and effectiveness of the teams, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality services for patients.
- Undertake annual appraisals and reviews of personal development plans.
- Review and amend job descriptions to reflect changes in roles and responsibilities.
- Provide professional and personal support for staff when required, particularly in relation to issues that affect their ability to work. Implement PICS absence management policy.
- Work alongside PCN managers to Identify the nursing requirements to meet the PCN population need, assessing the impact and implementation of skill-mix in the delivery of care and developing new services and adjusting skill-mix as required.
- Participate in the recruitment of nursing staff as required and implement induction and probation programmes for new nursing staff
- Facilitate regular operational meetings for individual PCN nursing teams - ensuring agendas and minutes are available
DELIVERY OF HIGH QUALITY, EFFECTIVE SERVICES
- Support the nursing teams in contributing to meeting PCN targets, encouraging flexibility in roles to meet changing demands
- Support the nursing team to carry out screening, immunisation and health promotion activities when required by PCNs.
- Support with the development of PICS-wide and protocols and policies, promoting evidence-based practice.
- Support the implementation of and adherence to local/national policies, proposed developments and improvements to service delivery.
- Ensure the nurses produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultations, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures, monitoring this through regular audits of clinical records.
- Ensure the completion of clinical audit cycles as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of the nurses against standards, implementing improvements where required - including annual audits of NMPs
- Assess effectiveness of care delivery through peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation and lead on the maintenance of quality governance systems for the nursing team.
- Using Datix system, undertake the investigation of any patient safety incidents and patient feedback relating to PCN nursing
COMMUNICATION AND TEAMWORK
- Build and oversee cohesive and effective PCN nursing teams which work effectively within the wider PCN team.
- Develop effective relationships with PCN management teams and GP practice staff where PCN Nurses / GPAs work.
- Organise and chair bi-monthly PCN Nursing Governance meetings to share good practice, new clinical knowledge & guidance and to disseminate learning from PICS Clinical Governance Committee.
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Develop own knowledge and practice to meet objectives/changes in service, through attendance at participative learning events, self-directed learning, clinical supervision and reflection on practice.
- Disseminate learning and information to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments.
- Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.
- Ensure that all mandatory training is completed by nurses and GPAs.
- Develop training plans for the nursing teams to support their professional development and meet the needs of the service.
- Support nurses to meet the requirements of revalidation with the NMC.
- Facilitate opportunities for clinical supervision and monitor that all nurses undertake structured reflection on practice.
- Encourage nursing staff participation in local practice nurse forums / PLT events and contribute to the development of these activities where required.
- Promote PCNs as good learning environments for undergraduate and post-graduate healthcare students, encouraging development of nurses as assessors and supervisors.
- Work with other clinical leads to provide PICS annual update for Non-Medical prescribers
- Act as an effective assessor for Nurse Associate students and RGN nurses on post registration courses: observing them in practice, liaising with their supervisors in practice, attending their progress review meetings and attending Assessor meetings at local Universities
- Work together with other local health and social care providers to look for opportunities to support each others students to ensure a availability of high-quality placements
MANAGEMENT OF RISK / PROMOTION OF SAFETY
- Ensure nursing staff actively implement safeguarding protocols for children and vulnerable adults and to know who to refer to and how to escalate concerns about radicalisation.
- Ensure regulatory standards are met including those defined by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (eg. revalidation requirements) and the Care Quality Commission.
- Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
- Ensure that there are adequate processes in place to ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs administered by PCN nurses.
- Ensure that systems are in place to monitor that infection-control measures are in accordance with local and national guidelines and policy.
- Using Datix for recording, lead in the analysis of incidents / accolades / feedback related to PCN nursing, identifying areas for improving practice and embedding changes in practice as required.
- Ensure any relevant patient safety alerts / medical device alerts are disseminated to clinical teams
- Active member of the PICS Clinical Governance Committee
STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF PCN NURSING SERVICES
- As a lead clinician within the PICS, contribute to the strategic development of services to meet patient and population needs across the wider local healthcare economy.
- Develop links within the ICB and other local and national bodies, working across multi-professional and agency boundaries relevant to PCN Nursing to develop existing and new roles and services.
- Identify, apply and disseminate research findings relating to clinical practice.
- Actively contribute to any research activity as required.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.
Qualifications
Essential
- Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
- Please provide your registration number of your NMC professional registration.
Experience
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
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
Primary Integrated Community Services
Address
Unit H3 Ash Tree Court
Nottingham Business Park
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG8 6PY
United Kingdom
Employer's website
http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)