This is a newly created leadership post at Sid Valley Practice, bringing urgent and planned care nursing together under one clinical lead. The work centres on developing the nursing and advanced clinical practice workforce, improving patient pathways and continuity of care, and embedding clinical governance and infection prevention. The post-holder also keeps a hands‑on caseload of autonomous assessment and prescribing, working alongside GP partners. Candidates need an ANP qualification, independent prescriber status and experience of leading nursing teams.
What the job involves
- Provide professional, clinical, strategic and operational leadership across nursing and advanced clinical practice services
- Lead and develop the nursing and ANP workforce, including appraisals, workforce planning and succession
- Support clinical supervision, competency assessment and professional development, and maintain competency frameworks
- Integrate urgent and planned care nursing to improve continuity, pathways and patient outcomes
- Drive quality improvement, innovation and service redesign
- Ensure clinical governance, patient safety and compliance with CQC, QOF and national guidance
- Oversee long‑term condition, screening, immunisation and other nursing service programmes
- Provide line management oversight of the Infection Prevention and Control Lead
- Lead audit, significant event review and use of practice data to set improvement priorities
- Develop services for the growing and evolving patient population, identifying best practice across primary care and the NHS
- Recruit, induct and retain nursing, healthcare associate and ANP staff, and promote shared learning across teams
- Maintain own advanced clinical practice through autonomous assessment, diagnosis and treatment, including independent prescribing
What’s required
Qualifications
- NMC-registered nurse
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner qualification at Masters level, or credentialing or digital badge, or a post-graduate award for qualifications before December 2020
- Minor illness qualification
Registration & licences
- Qualified independent nurse prescriber on the NMC register
- Meets NMC revalidation requirements and the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level
Experience
- Leading nursing teams, including clinical supervision and competency assessment
- Service redesign or quality improvement, and leading change across multidisciplinary teams
- Working across urgent and planned care pathways in a primary care setting
- Autonomous assessment and management of acute presentations, and prescribing
- Practice within the four pillars
Skills & knowledge
- Wound care, suture and staple removal, ECGs, venepuncture, new patient medicals, chaperoning and requesting pathology tests
- Collaborative multidisciplinary working with a positive, supportive approach
- Evidence-based practice, PGDs and associated policy, broad knowledge of clinical governance, and health promotion
- Accurate clinical record keeping and knowing when to refer to GPs within own scope
Other
- Strategic, innovative and forward-thinking leader who inspires others, interprets data and leads change
- Resilient under pressure, empathetic in distressing situations, with integrity, and flexible outside core hours with CPD evidence suited to the ANP role
Nice to have
- Teaching qualification
- ALS and PALS
- Knowledge of diabetes, hypertension, asthma, spirometry and CHD
- Knowledge of routine and childhood immunisations
- Knowledge of women's health, including cervical cytology and contraception
- Travel medicine
- Knowledge of local public health issues
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
