# Lead Practice Nurse

**Company**: Penrose Health
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £52,000 to £58,000 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Lead Practice Nurse to provide clinical leadership across our nursing service. The successful candidate will work as a Practice Nurse, delivering direct patient care for the majority of their working week, while also leading and supporting our Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, and Phlebotomists.

The Lead Nurse will be responsible for:

- Leading the nursing team and nursing service across Penrose Health

- Overseeing clinical governance within the nursing function

- Working with the Central Management Team to ensure the nursing service operates efficiently and effectively

- Continuing to work as a Practice Nurse and provide direct patient care for the majority of the working week

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and line-managing Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, and Phlebotomists

- Setting clear priorities, giving timely feedback, and coaching colleagues to remove barriers to performance

- Overseeing clinical governance, safety, and quality, including audits, significant events, complaints, and incident learning

- Leading on safeguarding, infection prevention, medicines management, and clinical risk within the nursing team

- Working with the Central Management Team on rotas, cover, recruitment, and retention

- Ensuring key clinical programmes run safely and on target

- Monitoring performance against QOF, contractual, and internal targets, and driving improvement plans where needed

We offer a salary of £52,000 to £58,000 per year, a permanent full-time contract, and a supportive working environment.

To be considered, you will need to have:

- Current UK professional registration as a Registered Nurse

- Recognised General Practice Nursing or Primary Care Nursing qualification, or equivalent post-registration training and assessed competence

- Substantial recent experience working as a Practice Nurse

- Experience leading, supervising, and developing clinical colleagues

If you're an experienced Practice Nurse who enjoys leadership without giving up clinical work, and you want a genuine say in how nursing is delivered across a growing, multi-site organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

## Skills

### Required
- General Practice Nursing
- Clinical Governance
- Safeguarding
- Infection Prevention
- Medicines Management
- Clinical Risk

### Nice to have
- Independent Prescribing
- Leadership
- Management
- Teaching
- Clinical Assessment

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