Lead Nurse (IUPC)

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative healthcare service provider in London is seeking a Lead Nurse to oversee the Integrated Urgent Primary Care team. Responsibilities include leading a multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality care, and ensuring compliance with clinical protocols. Applicants should have significant experience in urgent care settings, possess a Registered Nurse qualification, and an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice. This full-time position offers a salary between £75,000 and £82,503 based on experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years post-registration experience in A&E or similar environments.
• Experience in a senior nursing position.
• Ability to lead a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the nursing team and manage clinical assessments.
• Supervise junior team members and support their development.
• Implement quality improvement plans and protocols.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Infection prevention and control

Decision-making

Assessment and treatment skills

Education

Registered First Level Nurse (Adult)

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice

Current NMC Registration

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for Lead Nurse at our Integrated Urgent Primary Care (IUPC) Service. The post holder will provide expert and innovative leadership to IUPC Team. The post holder will support the nursing team in growing and developing the service within the wider department; living and leading by the Care Group values and culture to nurture and enable a high performing team. The post holder will have strong and dynamic leadership skills to lead the team in the development of an IUPC Service. The IUPC comprises of the Urgent Treatment Centre, GP Out of Hours, and NHS111 CAS. Through the development of strong and flexible relationships with ED, you will ensure safe, high-quality and seamless care across the local health system. Contributing to and leading the implementation of service developments will a key part of the role.

The Lead nurse will be expected to work on site at least 4 days in UTC and should be available for meetings with partners/stakeholders. This job is full time 37.5 hours.

The Care Group reserves the right to close this advertearly where we have received a high number of applications, and we encouragecandidates to submit their applications promptly.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

To lead the nursing team (working for GPCG) undertaking face to face assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients who are streamed into the IUPC, co-located with the ED Department at the Royal London Hospital, in accordance with the relevant protocols.

Provide supervision/development of junior members of the multidisciplinary team.

To utilise clinical decision-making skills, in line with the agreed IUPC criteria, taking a continuous improvement approach to continually refining the criteria.

To work collaboratively with the Assistant Director of Operations to achieve the Key Performance Indicators and support the implementation of improvement plans.

Actively implement effective systems and processes for infection prevention and control utilising relevant audits within their clinical area.

Provide strong leadership to the team acting as a professional role model; ensuring evidence-based practice is delivered, and ensuring patient safety and quality of care is enhanced.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care

Being a great place to work

Integrating primary and community care

Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people

Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Job responsibilities

• To be a clinical expert within the field of advanced practice in Urgent Care. An experienced ACP/ANP, who can work at a high level autonomously within all areas of Urgent Care. To be able to perform all extended clinical skills to a high level and be a passionate and skilled teacher working with the team to do continuous development.
• To have managerial responsibility for the team of nursing practitioners overseeing the development and the progression of the team as a whole.
• To work closely and autonomously with other members of the Urgent Care team and wider health care stakeholders. This will include the formulation of policies and protocols to support role advancement in line with service needs.
• To help plan, organise and participate in the teaching, training and supervision of the team of advanced clinical practitioners. This will include the overseeing of rota creation and management within individual team members.
• In addition to these duties the post holder will develop and deliver training, act as a mentor/assessor to a variety of health care professional staff gaining competencies in this varied speciality. The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical advice and support to, and liaising with other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To deliver the advanced clinical practitioner roles in conjunction with the service lines requirements and the changing non-consultant workforce to ensure satisfactory personnel are available to deliver safe and effective care.
• To provide leadership and management for the nursing team in the UTC.
• To develop a flexible workforce to meet the ever changing needs of the service within a managed financial envelope.
• To have undertaken the independent prescribing module and be able to be competent to practice as an independent prescriber.
• Be aware of own professional boundaries, always working within ones appropriate sphere of competence and maintaining patient safety at all times.
• To deliver the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda working within the GPCG Clinical Governance Framework to ensure that nursing and associated clinical services deliver quality, performance and operational directives.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years post-registration experience, working at a senior level within A&E or Walk-in Centre/Extended Hub/General Practice.

Qualifications

• Registered First Level Nurse (Adult)

Qualification

• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.

Qualification

• Current NMC Registeration

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.

Asst Director - Integrated Urgent Primary Care

£75,000 to £82,503 a yeardepending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours,Annualised hours