Practice Nurse Manager

• Clinical Delivery: Provide a full range of nursing clinics and services on-site at Alastair Ross Medical Practice, ensuring safe, effective, and patient-centred care.
• Cross-Practice Leadership: Youll provide cross-practice leadership by regularly visiting Tameside practices, offering hands-on guidance, mentorship, and practical support to nursing teams across the network.
• Performance & Quality Oversight: Monitor, review, and enhance nursing performance across all sites, ensuring compliance with practice policies, CQC requirements, and national clinical guidelines. Support professional development and facilitate ongoing training.
• Management Meetings: Attend weekly managerial meetings held in Tameside, taking place once each week in the morning, to contribute to operational planning and service improvement initiatives.
• Collaborative Working: Work closely with practice management teams to identify opportunities for service development, improve patient outcomes, and uphold high standards of care across all locations.

• Deliver comprehensive nursing care and evidence-based clinical advice to patients, including the management of chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension.
• Travel to our Tameside practices to deliver on-site leadership, operational support, and mentorship to nursing teams, ensuring consistent standards and effective day-to-day delivery of care.
• Oversee nursing performance, ensuring consistently high standards of clinical care, continuous professional development, and compliance with practice policies and national guidelines.
• Attend weekly managerial meetings in Tameside (held once per week in the morning).
• Conduct health screenings, childhood and adult immunisations, and other routine vaccinations.
• Perform cervical cytology and actively participate in the cervical screening programme.
• Provide health promotion, lifestyle guidance, and behavioural support, including smoking cessation and weight management advice.
• Support and contribute to the achievement of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) targets.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, healthcare assistants, and the wider multidisciplinary team to deliver coordinated and patient-centred care.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and compliant clinical documentation in accordance with practice policies and regulatory requirements.Lead and oversee Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) across the surgery, ensuring full adherence to statutory standards and best-practice protocols.
• Lead and oversee Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) across the surgery, ensuring full adherence to statutory standards and best-practice protocols.

Essential

• Registered Nurse (RN/RGN/RMN/RNLD) with current NMC registration. Evidence of ongoing professional development and revalidation. Accredited Cervical Cytology Screening Training (current and up-to-date). Immunisation and Vaccination Training (including childhood immunisations and anaphylaxis management). Chronic Disease Management training, e.g. in: Diabetes Asthma COPD Hypertension Cardiovascular disease

Desirable

• Clinical leadership or management training.
• Training in infection prevention and control (IPC).
• Safeguarding adults and children (Level 3).
• Basic life support and CPR training.

Essential

• Previous experience working in a GP surgery or primary care setting.
• Competent in performing cervical smears.
• Skilled in delivering routine and seasonal immunisations.
• Experience working toward and achieving QOF-based targets.
• Able to administer B12 injections.
• Experienced in chronic disease management.
• Competent in phlebotomy (blood taking)