Band 7 Lead Nurse - Primary Care

Job summary

University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust provides Primary Care Services from Selly Oak Health Centre to the local population. As part of our transformation work with the Practice we are expanding our clinical nursing service and are looking for an experienced practice Nurse to lead this work and support the quality governance agenda to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care to our patients. If you have experience of leading staff, working as apart of a MDT and have a wide range of highly developed clinical skills with the ability to work autonomously we would love to hear from you

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Practice Nurse to further grow your clinical and leadership skills whilst working as part of an innovative Out of Hospital Division within the Trust. You will be part of a diverse but supportive Divisional nursing team with opportunities to network across the wider Trust.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

In this role you will lead the provision of high quality nursing services to patients, including screening, assessment, treatment and advice, in order to promote and facilitate a healthy lifestyle and provide preventative health care.

You will lead on infection control in collaboration with non-clinical colleagues to meet the standards required of the practice, including monthly and annual audits. As part of the role you will also e required to lead in the development and delivery of specialist primary care services, such as long term disease management and ensure that National Service Frameworks (e.g CHD, Diabetes, mental health) are being delivered.

You will lead the nursing team to meet the needs of patients, working collaboratively with the general practice team and divisional team to support the delivery of policy and procedures, and provide nursing leadership. You will co-ordinate all available nursing resource, working with the practice manager and GPs to deliver the practice priorities and be able to assess effectiveness of care delivery for the nursing team through peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Ursula Hare 

07966457329