Lead Practice Nurse

Key Responsibilities

• Leading and line-managing Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and Phlebotomists — including inductions, mentoring, supervision and performance reviews
• Setting clear priorities, giving timely feedback and coaching colleagues to remove barriers to performance
• Overseeing clinical governance, safety and quality — including audits, significant events, complaints and incident learning
• Leading on safeguarding, infection prevention, medicines management and clinical risk within the nursing team
• Working with the Central Management Team on rotas, cover, recruitment and retention
• Ensuring key clinical programmes run safely and on target — long-term condition reviews, cervical screening, immunisations, wound care and NHS Health Checks
• Monitoring performance against QOF, contractual and internal targets, and driving improvement plans where needed
• Continuing to deliver hands-on Practice Nurse duties across the working week, including long-term condition management, screening, immunisations and patient education

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Are a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration and a recognised General Practice/Primary Care Nursing qualification (or equivalent experience)
• Have substantial recent experience as a Practice Nurse, including long-term condition management, screening, immunisation and wound care
• Have experience leading, supervising or developing clinical colleagues — including handling performance concerns fairly and directly
• Communicate clearly, set expectations early, and follow through on commitments to your team
• Take ownership of decisions and outcomes, and use evidence to drive improvement
• Are comfortable balancing hands-on clinical work with visible, active leadership
• Have experience with clinical audit or quality improvement (independent prescribing, leadership qualifications or multi-site nursing leadership experience all a bonus, but not essential)

Benefits