Lead Nurse / ACP

About Lakeside

Lakeside Healthcare is a large GP partnership that provides NHS care for around 170,000 patients across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. We are made of eight GP practices across 14 sites that are part of their local communities.

We work together as practices to provide resilience, sharing learning and professional back-office support services.

Our most important asset is our people, who provide care for our patients and help run our surgeries smoothly. We employ over 500 clinical and non-clinical staff, and we invest in training and developing to ensure that we retain and attract good quality staff who want to stay with us and be part of our team.

We are proud of what we do and strive to demonstrate our values of Caring, Respect, Quality and Teamwork in everything we do.

About the Team

Are you a Practice Nurse, ANP or ECP looking to move into a split clinical and Leadership role? We have a large Multi-Disciplinary team consisting of HCAs, NAs, Practice Nurses, ANPs and ECPs, working across St Neots to provide high quality patient care and are looking for a motivated Leader to join us.

Job Introduction

The purpose of the post is to deliver good quality Leadership to your team. Whilst bringing your clinical skills to provide, high quality primary care services to the practice population. Utilising skills and experience, the post holder will provide advanced interventions and influence development of services.

Using evidence-based knowledge, the post holder will deliver a high standard of care, making professionally autonomous and accountable decisions. The post holder will work within their professional boundaries to demonstrate safe clinical decision-making and cost-effective, expert care for patients within the practice.

The post holder will support service development, the safe delivery of policy and procedures, and demonstrate effective nurse advocacy and leadership.

Salary Range: £47,000 - £60,000 per annum, a leadership uplift will be discussed at interview.

What you will do

• Provide effective Leadership to the Nursing/AHP team, motivate, support and develop them.
• Manage Annual appraisals and 1:1s, setting clear objectives.
• Chair Regular team meetings locally ensuring active contribution and participation, and attend Lead Nurse/AHP meetings within the Lakeside Healthcare.
• Ensure effective communication between teams, ensuring teams are working within set standards.
• Initiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients and carers.
• Actively involved in the development and implementation of service developments and initiatives.
• Participates in risk assessment and promotes the safety and well-being of patients, staff and any other persons at all times and assist in ensuring a safe work environment.
• Ensure that all complaints, untoward incidents, accidents and areas of clinical risk are identified and reported to the lead GP, Nurse Manager or Practice Manager in accordance with the organisational policy and expected professional practice.
• Practice Lead for Infection, Prevention and Control.

Essential Criteria

• Registered Nurse/ECP.
• NMC or equivalent Registration.
• Managerial/Leadership experience within a healthcare setting.
• Ability to lead and manage a team.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills in the Primary Care environment.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Able to demonstrate experience in conflict management.

What we offer you (Benefits)

• Generous holidays (additional long service entitlements).
• NHS pension and long service recognition.
• NHS Discounts (Blue Light Card).
• Career opportunities.
• Role specific training and ongoing development.
• Great team environment.

Interview process

Please apply with a CV and a cover letter - Please upload your CV as a pdf and include your personal email address in your cover letter.

Our interview process will aim to meet you in person however some interviews may be carried out virtually.

To help you shine and show your full potential, please make us aware of any changes you might need at any stage of your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role, any changes at interviews, or anything else, we encourage you to contact our central People team. northantsicb.lakesidehumanresources@nhs.net.

We encourage candidates to not delay their application as we retain the right to close the advert early should the volume of applications become very high.

Please ensure you have your Right to Work documentation available at interview We will require you to produce the original documentation prior to your start date.

Shortlisting

We anticipate that shortlisting will commence one week after the advert has closed and will advise of interview arrangements if successful, however this timeline is dependent on the number of applications.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We value diversity and we're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to care for and support our patients and employees better. Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18 yrs. so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

Equal Opportunities

Lakeside Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring that all our staff and job applicants are protected from unlawful discrimination. All employees and job applicants will be treated equally, fairly and with respect. We will endeavour, through appropriate training, to ensure that our hiring teams making selection and recruitment decisions that do not discriminate, whether consciously or unconsciously and follow recognised industry best practice.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Employee discount

Application question(s):

• Do you have the right to work in the UK? (Yes/No) – If you answered Yes you must be able to provide sufficient evidence upon interview.

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 25/08/2024