Clinical Nurse Manager

The Humble yard Practice is recruiting a practice nurse or advanced nurse practitioner to lead its nursing team as Nurse Manager, on 30 to 37.5 hours a week. The core of the job is developing nurses at every stage, from those experienced in primary care to those new to it, while coordinating the team's care and running long-term condition and routine nurse consultations.

The post sits in a large, three-site dispensing and GP training practice within the five-practice Ketts Oak Primary Care Network, with protected management time provided. Current NMC registration with an active PIN is required.

• Provide leadership and staff development, including personal development plans and appraisals for the nursing team
• Coordinate the care provided by the nursing team
• Liaise between the nursing team and the management team and partners
• Provide general leadership and management alongside the GP partners and management team
• Help nurses, including those new to primary care, develop their skills and confidence
• Support nurses to access development opportunities and discuss career progression
• Provide care for patients needing long-term condition consultations
• Provide primary care nursing consultations, such as childhood immunisations and cervical screening

• Relevant nursing degree

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN

• Practice nurse experience
• Competence to run some or all of asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates
• Evidence of clinical skills in areas such as phlebotomy, ECG recording, cervical sampling, vaccinations, wound care and spirometry

• Compassionate, empathetic manner that values the dignity of patients, carers and colleagues
• Knowledge of supporting long-term conditions and experience of applying it
• Insight into current issues in nursing and the wider NHS

• Up to 6 weeks' annual leave plus bank holidays, in line with practice leave policy
• Generous protected management time for leadership and development tasks
• NHS leadership training for the successful candidate
• Support to access development opportunities and a progressive career path