Nurse Lead – NHS Health Checks

Suffolk GP Federation; Landseer; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A local healthcare organization in Canada is seeking a band 6 equivalent nurse to join their Public Health & Diagnostics Team. The successful candidate will deliver training for health checks, maintain quality oversight, and ensure safety in service delivery. This permanent, part-time role offers flexible working, competitive salaries, and generous holiday benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Personal development opportunities

Competitive salaries

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Discounts via Blue light card

Qualifications

• Experience in supervising healthcare assistants and quality checks.
• Ability to keep Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) updated.
• Skills in training staff and delivering health checks.

Responsibilities

• Deliver training for staff undertaking health checks.
• Maintain and update SOPs.
• Provide quality oversight of checks done by pharmacies and practices.

Skills

Quality oversight

Training delivery

Safety management

Job description

We have an opportunity for a band 6 equivalent nurse to join our Public Health & Diagnostics Team to work closely with the NHS Health Checks Operations Manager to ensure the service is delivered safely and meets quality requirements.

What is the role?

• Delivery of training for staff undertaking a health check – Fed internal team, Community Pharmacies & GP Practices as necessary
• Keeping Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) up to date / relevant
• Quality oversight and supervision of HCA’s undertaking checks
• Quality oversight of Pharmacies undertaking checks – through quality measures in subcontract which includes POCT (Point of Care Testing) devices and IQA/EQA arrangements
• Quality oversight of Practices undertaking checks – through quality measures in subcontract which includes POCT (Point of Care Testing) devices and IQA/EQA arrangements

What are we looking for?

We will work alongside the successful candidate to ensure they are sufficiently inducted and trained; there will be regular constructive supervision in place. It is important to us that you feel safe and supported in the role.

Contract type:

Permanent Part time – 15 hours per week

What we can offer you:

• A strong ethos of flexible working, to help us maintain (or reclaim) that work/life balance.
• Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard.
• A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that ‘get it’
• Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and ‘no wait’ responses
• A commitment to personal development, training, and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets
• Cycle to work scheme
• Death in service cover
• Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking
• 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) on starting, rising to 29 days (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service. (Pro rata for part time employees)
• Blue light card employer – Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.