About the role
Salary: £52000.00 to £58000.00
The Lead Nurse works with clinical and non-clinical teams to deliver the best healthcare to our patients while providing leadership and oversight of the nursing service across Penrose Health.
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
We're looking for an experienced Lead Practice Nurse to provide clinical leadership across our nursing service. Someone ready to shape how nursing care is delivered, while still doing the hands-on clinical work that drew them into nursing in the first place.