Lead Practice NurseNHS

Job summary

Staff are Prospect Medical Group are dedicated to providing excellent patient-centred care and working with our diverse community.

The role will include long-term condition management, childhood immunisation, cytology, smears, and travel vaccinations.

We are looking for a highly capable, enthusiastic, and motivated person. The successful candidate will provide both clinical and professional leadership to the nursing team, supporting the delivery of high-quality, safe and effective patient care. The role combines clinical practice with team leadership, quality improvement, workforce development and service delivery responsibilities.

As a senior member of the multidisciplinary team, you will lead the management of long-term conditions, support public health and screening programmes, oversee infection prevention and control standards, and contribute to the ongoing development of nursing services within the practice. You will play a key role in mentoring and supporting nurses, healthcare assistants and students, helping to develop a skilled and engaged workforce.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical nursing service and support to other professionals and to patients of the practice including treatment, screening, chronic disease management and advice within the professional competence of the post holder. Support and work effectively within the clinical team.

The successful applicant will:

Provide clinical leadership to the nursing team and support delivery of high-quality patient care.

Lead the management of patients with long-term conditions using evidence-based practice.

Support and develop nurses, nursing associates, healthcare assistants and students through supervision and mentorship.

Act as Infection Prevention and Control Lead, ensuring compliance with national and local standards.

Deliver routine nursing services including chronic disease reviews, immunisations, vaccinations, cervical screening and health promotion activities.

Contribute to quality improvement initiatives, clinical audits and service development projects.

Support achievement of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and enhanced service targets.

Work collaboratively with GPs, PCN colleagues, community services and wider healthcare partners to improve patient outcomes

Job description

Patient care

Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised nursing care needs as identified, or where care has been transferred by a GP. This will usually be in surgery but occasional home visits will also be required.

Have responsibility for individual patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporate the issues and recommendations made.

Initiating and maintaining health screening and promotion clinics for identified areas of the practice population, recognizing where modification of systems or referral is necessary.

Managing the nursing care of patients with chronic disease, employing personal recall systems suitable to the practice needs. This includes using the practice computer systems for input of information for recall and screening purposes.

Undertake general nursing examinations and treatments for patients healthcare needs such as wound care, sutures removal, electrocardiogram (ECGs), Cytology, Ear Care.

Maintaining efficient liaison with all areas of the Primary Care Team and other agencies to assure continuity of care where necessary.

Health Promotion

Undertake basic assessment of the needs of patients including men and womens health screening and education. Coordinate the development of plans to meet the health needs of patients including diagnostic tests, treatment plans, health promotion and prevention.

Provide smears following current guidelines and manage follow up system.

Administer depoprovera injections following current guidelines

Be able to assess critically and re-evaluate the clinical situation as the patients condition or needs change.

Team work

Assist in clinical audit and the setting up and monitoring of standards of care.

Assist and teach others in clinical setting, including unqualified staff

Work effectively in the team.

Information and IT

Facilitate good communication systems within the practice with the use of computerised messages.

Extrapolate information received by outside agencies and bring to the notice of all clinicians wherever necessary.

Undertake all training and attend any computer data input and retrieval meetings deemed necessary by the Practice Manager to manage the clinical system effectively.

Personal Development

Attend relevant training updates as required to maintain clinical effectiveness

Maintain continuous professional development records in keeping with the requirement of NMC.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.

About us

Prospect Medical Group is a long established, friendly and forward-thinking GP practice in the west end of Newcastle Upon Tyne based in a single site premises. At Prospect Medical Group we aim to provide quality healthcare through highly coordinated, personalised care that helps our patients live healthier lives while embracing an environment that supports training, education and continuous development. We are committed to delivering safe, effective and compassionate care

We currently have a patient list size of around 14,000. We are highly involved in our PCN (Inner West Newcastle) and through this we benefit from pharmacists, physiotherapists, psychology, paramedics, mental health workers and social prescribers who work also work for the practice.

Our collective purpose is to provide the best care to our patients.

We use SystmOne clinical system.