Lead Nurse

Clinical Leadership Provide clinical leadership and supervision for nursing staff, ensuring high standards of care across all nursing services.

Deliver and coordinate clinical services including chronic disease management (e.g., diabetes, COPD, hypertension), immunisations, vaccinations, and health promotion.

Undertake advanced clinical duties such as immunisation delivery, cervical cytology, wound care, blood tests, ECGs, and other clinical procedures as required by the practice.

Provide or support nurse-led clinics and autonomous clinical decision-making within scope of practice.

Support adherence to national and local clinical guidelines and evidence-based practice.

Service Development & Quality Improvement Identify opportunities and lead initiatives to develop nursing services to meet practice priorities and patient needs.

Contribute to achieving practice performance targets (e.g., Quality and Outcomes Framework, immunisation targets). Promote clinical governance, audit, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.

Team Leadership & Management Lead, mentor, and supervise the nursing team, including registered nurses, nurse associates and healthcare assistants.

Support recruitment, induction, appraisal and development of nursing staff.

Manage nursing rotas and contribute to team workload planning.

Act as a role model, promoting teamwork, professionalism and collaboration.

Communication & Collaboration Work closely with GPs, Practice Manager, other clinicians and admin staff to integrate nursing services with the wider practice and PCN. Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and teams to support care delivery and practice goals.

Attend and contribute to clinical and practice meetings.

Education & Development Support training and professional development of nursing staff and students.

Promote a learning environment and disseminate new clinical knowledge, guidelines and best practice.

Professional & Regulatory Responsibilities Maintain up-to-date NMC registration and practice within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

Ensure accurate and timely clinical record-keeping in line with practice standards.

Comply with data protection, confidentiality and safeguarding requirements.