Nurse Manager in Market Harborough

Market Harborough and Bosworth Partnership is seeking an experienced and motivated Nurse Manager to join our established GMS nursing team. This key role involves leading, supporting, and developing our practice nurses and healthcare assistants, with a strong focus on maintaining high standards of clinical care and patient safety.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience leading/managing a nursing team in either primary or secondary care and will be excited by the challenge of a large, multi-site partnership. The role is anticipated to involve a 70/30 split between management and clinical duties, although this balance will be shaped by the successful candidate once in post.

• You will have responsibility for overseeing cold chain management, clinical audits, and the implementation of policies and procedures.
• You will actively contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement initiatives, and service development, working closely with GPs and the Practice Manager.
• In addition, you will manage all nursing resources to ensure alignment with the partnership's business priorities.
• You will ensure that HR processes are followed effectively through robust appraisal and performance management, with support from the Practice Manager for more complex HR matters.

Applicants must demonstrate strong clinical experience, particularly in the delivery of evidence-based care for long-term conditions, immunisations, and screening programmes.

About us: Situated in the beautiful surroundings of South Leicestershire, Market Harborough and Bosworth Partnership is a large GP Partnership serving 35,000 patients across two dispensing practices. We have a branch site at St Lukes Treatment Centre where we run the local MIU, minor illness clinics, and our dedicated care home team. We are a teaching and training practice, research active, and deliver multiple enhanced services alongside our GMS contract.

You will be joining a multidisciplinary team of over 130 staff, working alongside GPs, administrators, nursing staff, and allied healthcare professionals within a single-partnership PCN. We have a shared vision and values, and we pride ourselves on our warm and welcoming atmosphere. You will be supported with clinical supervision and training/development opportunities.

To be the best local health care provider delivering safe and effective patient care, developing and nurturing our staff, whilst always striving to better ourselves.

• Always act with honesty and integrity.
• Embrace and drive change.
• Promote equality, diversity, and inclusivity.
• Caring, trustworthy, and respectful to patients and colleagues.

• Registered General Nurse (Registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council).
• Recent and relevant experience in primary care.
• Post registration experience (Minimum 3 years).
• Experience in the Management of patients with Long-term conditions.
• Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of own clinic practice.
• Understanding of evidence-based practice.
• Knowledge of national standards that inform practice (e.g. QOF, NICE guidelines etc.).
• Understanding of systems to gain understanding of the health needs of the practice population as they relate to Primary Care.
• Understanding of infection prevention and control measures in clinical practice.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office, Word, Excel, EMIS and/or other Clinical Software.
• Good organisational skills.
• The ability to work under pressure.
• Clinical Leadership skills.
• Hep-B vaccinated or willing to be vaccinated.
• A flexible and adaptable approach to maintain the consistent delivery of high-quality services.
• Mentorship and working with pre-registration student nurses.

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.