Lead Nurse Manager

• provide visible clinical and managerial leadership across both sites
• line manage nursing staff, including deployment, rotas, leave, attendance, appraisals, supervision and performance
• maintain an appropriate patient-facing clinical workload
• ensure safe, effective, evidence-based care meeting professional and organisational standards
• provide senior nursing advice and act on patient safety or competence concerns
• develop staff, support succession planning and delegate leadership to senior nurses
• oversee nursing governance, including audit, quality improvement, incidents, complaints, IPC, medicines/vaccines, safeguarding and equipment safety
• use workforce, activity and quality data to improve access, capacity, LTC management, vaccination uptake, QOF and agreed priorities
• lead improvements to roles, skill mix, pathways, systems and ways of working
• contribute to workforce planning, recruitment, policies, protocols and organisational decisions
• work with the Group Practice Manager and Nurse Lead GP Partner, escalating significant staffing, financial, contractual or clinical risks
• build effective relationships with partners, managers, MDT, PCN, community and external services.

• providing visible, credible and consistent leadership to the nursing team
• setting clear expectations for professional conduct, performance, accountability and patient care
• line managing nursing staff, including supervision, appraisal, attendance, wellbeing, performance and day-to-day employment matters
• managing nursing rotas, annual leave, deployment and safe staffing across both sites
• supporting workforce planning, recruitment, induction, retention, succession planning and development of the nursing skill mix
• developing senior nursing staff and delegating appropriate leadership, supervision and appraisal responsibilities
• maintaining a regular clinical workload and providing senior nursing advice and professional support
• ensuring staff work safely within their competence and scope of practice
• taking prompt and proportionate action where there are concerns about clinical competence, unsafe practice, poor performance or inappropriate behaviour
• overseeing nursing clinical governance, including incidents, complaints, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, medicines and vaccine governance, record keeping, clinical equipment safety, audit and quality improvement
• contributing nursing assurance to CQC requirements, contractual standards and internal and external reviews
• monitoring and improving the nursing teams contribution to patient access, capacity, QOF, long-term-condition management, vaccination uptake and other organisational priorities
• using workforce, activity, quality and outcome information to identify variation, capacity pressures, competency gaps and opportunities for improvement
• leading agreed service improvement and modernisation, including changes to nursing roles, skill mix, rotas, pathways, technology and ways of working
• supporting education, competency assurance, mandatory learning, continuing professional development, preceptorship, clinical supervision and student placements
• overseeing nursing resources, including staffing, stock, vaccines, cold-chain systems, consumables and clinical equipment
• contributing to nursing policies, protocols, pathways and standard operating procedures and ensuring agreed changes are implemented effectively
• maintaining effective communication within the nursing team and building constructive relationships with GP partners, managers, the wider multidisciplinary team, the PCN, ICB, community services, training organisations and other external partners.

Essential

• Registered Adult Nurse (RGN) with current NMC registration and no restriction incompatible with the role.
• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent specialist knowledge gained through postgraduate development and substantial relevant experience.
• Evidence of current continuing professional development, reflective practice and ability to meet NMC revalidation requirements.

Desirable

• Relevant postgraduate qualification.
• Formal leadership or management development; recognised coaching, teaching, assessing or practice-education qualification.
• Independent or supplementary prescribing qualification relevant to the postholders scope of practice.

Essential

• Substantial post-registration nursing experience demonstrating sound clinical judgement, autonomous practice within competence and current clinical credibility.
• Demonstrable experience of leading people, a service or significant workstream: setting expectations, securing delivery, handling challenge and taking responsibility for outcomes. A previous Nurse Manager title is not required.
• Experience of supervising or developing staff and of addressing concerns about standards, behaviour, attendance, capability or performance fairly and directly.
• Evidence of leading or making a material contribution to service improvement, modernisation, workforce development or implementation of changed practice.
• Experience of clinical governance, audit, evidence-based practice, risk management or quality improvement and of converting findings into sustained action.
• Experience of supporting learning, competency development or clinical supervision within a team.

Desirable

• Experience in general practice, community care or a comparable setting; experience across more than one clinical service.
• Substantial formal line-management responsibility for a large or multidisciplinary clinical team.
• Experience of appraisals, absence management, recruitment and formal HR processes in partnership with an HR or senior-management lead.
• Experience of role redesign, skill-mix review, succession planning or organisational change.
• Experience contributing to CQC assurance, incident or complaint investigation, medicines/vaccine governance or infection-prevention assurance.
• Experience of preceptorship, student placements, trainee nursing associates or development of other clinical leaders.