Clinical Nurse Manager

The Humble yard Practice is seeking a capable and highly motivated practice nurse to join our team as Nurse Manager on a full-time basis. This is a leadership opportunity for a nurse with enthusiasm, commitment, and good communication skills to develop our loyal and well-established nursing team.

The role will involve applying your primary care nursing experience to help both experienced and new to primary care nurses develop their skills and confidence within a busy 3 surgery general practice setting.

The Nurse Manager will help the practice support our nurses to access development opportunities and we welcome discussions about general career progression. Generous and appropriate protected management time will be offered to achieve this important activity and other leadership tasks. This includes NHS leadership training for the successful candidate.

The Nurse Manager will alsobe required to provide more general leadership and management alongside the GP partners and management team in our aim of providing good quality patient care.

• Provide leadership and staff development, including producing personal development plans/appraisals for our nursing team.
• Coordinate the provision of care given by the nursing team.
• Liaise between the nursing team and the management team and partners.
• Help coordinate patients’ long-term conditions care management, including QOF and vaccinations programmes.
• Provide leadership and coordination for our infection control policies and practices

For more information, please see the job description attached.

All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Practice nurse experience.
• Competence to undertake some or all of asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
• Evidence of clinical skills and experience in some of all of treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
• Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
• Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS

We are a large, semi-rural, three-site dispensing, research and GP training Practiceoperatingover three surgery sites just to the southwest of the fine city of Norwich. We have a fast-growing list size of 22,000 patients and we are part of the 5-practice Kett’s Oak Primary Care Network.

• Up to 6 weeks + Bank Holidays (in line with Practice leave policy)

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.