Nurse Manager

Nurse Manager

The closing date is 31 January 2026

Ireland Wood & Horsforth Medical Practice is seeking an experienced, motivated, and forward‑thinking Nurse Manager to join and guide our dedicated nursing team. In this pivotal role, you will lead and mentor the nursing team, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care, safety and professional development. You will oversee infection control, cold chain processes, clinical audits and policy implementation, while contributing to governance, quality improvement and service innovation.

This role is ideal for a dynamic nurse leader with strong clinical expertise, excellent communication skills and a passion for continuous improvement in primary care.

• Line management of the practice nursing team, consisting of nurses and HCAs.
• Responsibility for several clinical areas such as infection prevention and control, health promotion, chronic disease management, and supporting the practice management team in reviewing and delivering clinical policy and procedure.
• Implementation of processes for effective management of patients with long‑term conditions using evidence‑based practice, including care for elderly and house‑bound patients.
• Work as a senior member of the multidisciplinary team to ensure nursing services are delivered effectively to the entitled patient population.
• Ensure the post holder has access to appropriate clinical supervision and a named individual in the organisation to provide general advice and support on a day‑to‑day basis.

Ireland Wood & Horsforth Medical Practice is a thriving and well‑respected GP practice in Leeds, serving the second largest patient population in the city of approximately 28,000 patients across two sites. We strive to offer a friendly and supportive working environment in which our team is strongly encouraged to realise their full potential. We pride ourselves on being patient‑centred with excellent access and highly value continuity of care.

We work out of modern purpose‑built premises within LS16 and LS18 areas of Leeds, as part of the Woodsley and Holt Park Primary Care Network.

The following are the core responsibilities of the Nurse Manager. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks depending on workload and staffing levels:

• Provide line management to the nursing team, including annual appraisals, one‑to‑one meetings, team meetings, managing annual leave and absences, and opportunities for training and development.
• Coordinate the nursing team rota, ensuring sufficient staff are available to meet patient needs.
• Act as the Infection Prevention Control (IPC) lead and work to the IPC policy, providing audits, training, support and evidence of compliance to the practice manager.
• Work alongside the practice manager to maximise practice income and achievement (e.g., QOF,IF, LES/DES/Public Health targets).
• Develop, implement and embed an effective care management programme for the frail and house‑bound patients registered at the practice.
• Assess the needs of patients, ensuring the provision of healthcare is appropriate, incorporating evidence‑based practice.
• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes.
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients that promote health and wellbeing.
• Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long‑term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patient health.
• Provide routine nursing care to patients in accordance with clinical‑based evidence, NICE and the NHS.
• Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions.
• Prescribe medication for patients in accordance with PGDs and own scope of practice.
• Review patient medications to enhance compliance.
• Provide guidance to patients on the use of prescribed and over‑the‑counter medications regarding side effects and dosages.
• Co‑ordinate the provision of travel medicine services.
• Request pathology services and process pathology results as required.
• Oversee the provision of chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical…