Experienced Lead Practice Nurse
Primary Care Careers
Ipswich, IP1 2EUView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£56,700 to £58,700
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
31 October 2026
11 days leftJob description
Burlington Primary Care is looking for a lead practice nurse who wants to shape something: to design how nursing is delivered, grow a team around them...
- Lead and develop the nursing and HCA team: recruitment, induction, appraisal, and mentoring
- Deliver and oversee high-quality clinical care across a broad range of long-term conditions
- Design and implement nursing protocols, care pathways, and service improvements
- Drive clinical governance, CQC compliance, and quality improvement
- Represent nursing at practice leadership level alongside the GP partners and practice manager
- Contribute to PCN objectives and collaborative working across the wider system
- Champion lifestyle medicine and prevention-focused approaches to long-term condition management
- Support and develop innovative models of care delivery, including group consultations
- Champion culturally sensitive, accessible care for a multilingual patient population
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.
Over the last 50 years, we have built a practice with roots in the community, a team that knows its patients & a culture that takes both clinical excellence & staff wellbeing seriously.We are CQC-rated Good. We are forward-thinking, committed to innovation & to the personal touch that makes general practice what it is.Our partners bring deep extensive expertise across primary care. We believe that prevention is as important as treatment & are actively building services that reflect that.Our MDT includes nurses, HCAs, paramedic, pharmacists, pharmacy technician, GP assistant & long-term-condition care coordinators.We are based at in Ipswich town centre, with on-site parking for staff.
- Build your own team: genuine authority to recruit, develop, & lead the nursing workforce
- Clinical breadth: a complex, diverse patient list to stretch & reward you
- A seat at the table: nursing leadership valued & visible at partner level
- Prevention-first culture: we take lifestyle medicine seriously & want nursing to lead on it
- Innovative ways of working: group consultations already in use; space to develop & expand new models of care
- Innovation welcomed: we want your ideas, not just your compliance
- Investment in you: prescribing, leadership qualifications & specialist interests actively supported
- Work-life balance: we take staff wellbeing seriously, not just as a line in an advert
- Stability & legacy: over 50 years of community roots & a committed permanent team
- Competitive salary + NHS pension
We are looking for a confident, experienced, registered nurse, with a solid background in general practice. Experienced in long-term condition management, you will have led or supervised clinical colleagues before, finding it rewarding. We are looking for someone with vision: someone who looks at a nursing team & sees what it could become; someone comfortable sitting with GP partners and making the case for nursing; someone who wants the responsibility, not just the title. You will bring cultural intelligence & commitment to equity. Our patient population is one of our greatest strengths, & the right candidate will see it that way too.:
Essential
- Qualified nurse with current NMC registration
- Significant general practice experience
- Experience leading, supervising, or mentoring clinical staff
- Strong knowledge of chronic disease management & preventative care
- Excellent communication, organisational & interpersonal skills
- Commitment to clinical governance & evidence-based practice
- Confident working in a MDT
- Experience working with patients from diverse cultural & linguistic backgrounds
Desirable
- Independent prescriber qualification
- Leadership/management qualification
- Experience in workforce planning & staff development
- Knowledge of QOF, Enhanced Services & PCN working
- Interest or experience in lifestyle medicine, health coaching, or behaviour change approaches to long-term condition management
- Experience delivering/supporting group consultation models
- Additional language skills
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
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First seen
19 October 2026
Last checked
20 October 2026
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