Trainee Site Manager

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider is seeking a Trainee Site Manager based in London, responsible for ensuring operational excellence across multiple practice sites. The role demands strong leadership skills, proven team management experience, and a commitment to high-quality patient care. This permanent position offers a progressive salary with potential for career development in a supportive organizational culture.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience as a team leader or site manager is crucial.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development is required.
• Proven track record in a multidisciplinary team for at least 3 years.

Responsibilities

• Ensure smooth day-to-day operations at the sites.
• Support the management team in coordinating changes.
• Plan rotas to maintain adequate staffing levels.

Skills

Team leadership

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

Good level of education, 5 GCSEs or equivalent

Relevant team management qualification or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job summary

Job Title: Trainee Site Manager

Salary: starting at £28,352, progressive payscale up to £33,143

Hours: 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday

Location: Princess Street Practice and Surrey Docks Health Centre

Nexus will be holding a recruitment open day for the role, please see details below :

At Surrey Docks Health Centre SE16 6AE

2pm - 4pm Community Hall

4th December 2025.

Please attend in person with your CV in hand to be considered on the day.

Main duties of the job

Our Trainee Site Managers provide local site-based leadership. To support Nexus to ensure that consistently high quality standards and practices are applied across all areas of patient care and service provision. To ensure and promote a positive, fair, innovative and safe working environment for staff at all levels.

Responsibilities

Ensuring the smooth day-to-day operational running of the sites and all facilities and support services required to ensure high quality patient service delivery.

To support the Senior Management Team in coordinating change across the Group.

Responsible for ensuring that all staff are aware of and adhere to all Nexus based policies, protocols and procedures.

Ensure the smooth running of practice sites and room availability to enable the delivery of a high quality service to patients.

To plan the rota to ensure adequate staffing levels taking into consideration staffing shortages and leave.

To undertake reception cover when this is required.

About us

Nexus was formed in 2016 with the merging of established local practices in Southwark. We look after a practice population of more than 76,000 patients spread across our 8 sites. Our clinical approach is based on a foundation of clinical excellence, clinical leadership, and clinical governance shaped by the needs and challenges of our local population. We are a well recognised training organisation for future GPs and nurses. We are focused on the learning and development of our clinical and non‑clinical staff.

We operate 8 GP Practice sites across north Southwark that are geographically close and well served by local transport hubs at London Bridge, Elephant & Castle and Canada Water. We share a single patient list but our patients are attached to a specific site and are looked after by local multidisciplinary teams which include GPs, Nurses, Physicians Assistants, Paramedics, ANPs and Pharmacists. Our site based teams are supported by Managers and local administration staff. Our GP Partners have overall clinical and administrative responsibility for Nexus Health Group and are supported by a Senior Management Team and centralised HR, IT, clinical administration functions.

Nexus works closely with our local PCN and 2 of our GP Partners are PCN clinical directors.

Job details

Date posted: 18 November 2025

Pay scheme: Other

Pay: £28,352 a year progressive pay scale up to £33,000

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: A5226-25-0049

Job locations

Princess Street Group Practice

2 Princess Street

London

SE1 6JP

Surrey Docks Health Centre

Blondin Way

London

SE16 6AE

Qualifications

• Good level of education, 5 GCSEs or equivalent
• Relevant team management qualification or equivalent experience of working as a team leader / site manager.
• Evidence of on‑going professional development

Experience

• At least 3 years experience with proven track record of working in a multidisciplinary team and of taking lead responsibility for areas of work preferably in a health sector.
• Computer literate with the ability to use the full range of Microsoft office packages, including Word, Excel, applications and email.

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.

Employer details

Nexus Health Group

Address:

Princess Street Group Practice

2 Princess Street

London

SE1 6JP

Employer's website

https://nexushealthgroup.nhs.uk/