Lead Nurse for PCN Nursing in Nottingham

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 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 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.

Benefits of working for PICS

• 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.
• 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 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 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 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.
• 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.
• Work together with other local health and social care providers to look for opportunities to support each other's students to ensure availability of high-quality placements.

MANAGEMENT OF RISK / PROMOTION OF SAFETY

• Ensure nursing staff actively implement safeguarding protocols for children and vulnerable adults and 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 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.

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.