Penrose Health is recruiting a Lead Practice Nurse to head the nursing service across its multi-site network in South East London. The post combines leading Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and Phlebotomists with oversight of clinical governance and quality. It is a blended role: the postholder keeps a clinical caseload for most of the week, with protected time set aside for leadership. Applicants need current NMC registration and substantial recent practice nursing experience.
What the job involves
- Lead and line-manage Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and Phlebotomists, including inductions, mentoring, supervision and performance reviews
- Oversee clinical governance, safety and quality, including audits, significant events, complaints and incident learning
- Lead on safeguarding, infection prevention, medicines management and clinical risk within the nursing team
- Work with the Central Management Team to ensure the nursing service runs efficiently and effectively
- Manage rotas, cover, recruitment and retention with the Central Management Team
- Set clear priorities, give timely feedback and coach colleagues to remove barriers to performance
- Ensure key clinical programmes run safely and on target: long-term condition reviews, cervical screening, immunisations, wound care and NHS Health Checks
- Monitor performance against QOF, contractual and internal targets and drive improvement plans where needed
- Continue hands-on Practice Nurse work for most of the working week, including long-term condition management, screening, immunisations and patient education
- Provide visible leadership across all working hours
What’s required
Qualifications
- Recognised General Practice Nursing or Primary Care Nursing qualification, or equivalent post-registration training and assessed competence
Registration & licences
- Current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse
Experience
- Substantial recent experience as a Practice Nurse, including long-term condition management, cervical screening, immunisation and wound care
- Experience leading, supervising and developing clinical colleagues, including managing performance concerns
- Experience of clinical audit or quality improvement
Skills & knowledge
- Strong knowledge of general practice nursing, clinical governance and primary care quality requirements
- Understanding of safeguarding, infection prevention, medicines management and clinical risk
Other
- Patient-focused and clinically accountable
- Fair and consistent in applying standards
- Takes ownership of decisions, outcomes and mistakes
- Deals with difficult issues directly and respectfully
- Follows through on commitments to the team
Nice to have
- Independent prescribing qualification
- Leadership, management, teaching or clinical-assessment qualification
- Experience leading a nursing service across multiple sites
- Knowledge of CQC inspections, QOF and population-health management
- Influence effectively across different teams and professional groups
What’s offered
- Protected time for leadership responsibilities within the working week
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
