Lead Practice Nurse Health Centre Medical Centre

The Lead Nurse will provide professional leadership and oversight of nursing services across both practice sites, working collaboratively to bring teams together and promote a unified approach to patient care. The role will support the sharing of knowledge, skills, and best practice, ensuring consistency in clinical processes, service delivery, and patient experience. Through effective communication, engagement, and leadership, the Lead Nurse will drive collaboration across teams, streamline ways of working, and support the continuous development of an integrated and high-performing nursing service.

To support the scale and scope of this cross-site leadership role, the Lead Nurse will be supported by a Deputy Lead Nurse at each practice site. These deputies will provide day-to-day operational leadership, maintain a visible presence within their respective teams, and support the implementation of agreed standards, processes, and service developments. This structure will ensure effective local oversight whilst enabling the Lead Nurse to focus on leadership, service integration, workforce development, and the continued alignment of nursing services across both sites.

This role will be pivotal to Provide leadership to the practice nurse team for both Newport Health Centre and Cowes Medical Centre (comprising of practice nurses and HCAs) in collaboration with the general practitioners and wider team to develop an effective, quality driven general practice nurse service. Promote nursing practice underpinned by the development of evidence-based practice guidelines, for shared delivery of care to our whole practice population.

Ensure clinical effectiveness by monitoring key quality indicators, auditing nursing practice, reviewing patient outcomes, and supporting continuous quality improvement initiatives. Use data and feedback to identify trends, drive service improvements, and ensure nursing services across both sites consistently deliver safe, effective, and high-quality patient care Role and responsibilities Clinical practice Practice independently in accordance with NMC code of conduct and with reference to practice guidelines, appropriately referring to GPs Maintain accurate documentation of care and utilisation of IT Ensure continuation of own personal and professional development, facilitated by utilisation of clinical supervision networks.

Lead and develop the nursing team Provide focus for nursing expertise within practice, advising nursing staff, appropriate to level of competence Identify training needs of practice nurse team and actively promote life-long learning, including PREP requirements Ensure quality annual appraisals are completed Share responsibility for ensuring effective inter-practice communication Ensure skills of practice nurse team are appropriately and effectively used to deliver care.

Ensure care is delivered by practice nurse team members with relevant and appropriate skills. Ensure that efficient and appropriate stock control is in place. Ensure adequate and appropriate practice nurse cover is available within practice. Wider primary health care team role Advance clinical nursing practice in the wider nursing team through the development of shared, evidence-based practice guidelines. Lead the development and monitoring of key quality markers for practice guidelines, thereby promoting clinical effectiveness.

Actively participate in educational programmes including medical students and GP registrar, in relation to areas of clinical and practice nursing expertise. Co-ordinate and administrate monthly nursing focus meetings for wider nursing team. Provide a point of contact for nursing expertise…