Lead Practice Nurse - Newport Health Centre & Cowes Medical Centre
Job summary
Full time - 37.5 hours M-F preferred Part time - applications considered £45,000 - 50,000 PA (pro rata) Are you ready to take the next step in your Nursing career? Are you passionate about delivering outstanding care and have proven leadership experience? .. We're waiting to hear from you!
We have an exciting opportunity following our two practice merger for a motivated & experienced Nurse to join and lead our friendly and dedicated Nursing team at Newport Health Centre, and Cowes Medical Centre, Isle of Wight. The successful candidate will benefit from continual support from our GP Partnership, Practice Leadership and wider practice teams.
We offer a collaborative and positive work environment and investment into your own continual development. This role may also present an ideal opportunity for anyone who has extensive knowledge and Nursing experience within Primary Care and would like to develop their leadership/management skills.
Main duties of the job
This role will be primarily responsible for the delivery of our Nurse led services within our primary care settings and will assume responsibility for the leadership of our Nurse and Healthcare Assistant (HCA) teams. This includes oversight for several clinical areas such as infection prevention and control, health prevention and promotion, chronic disease management, as well as reviewing and delivery of clinical policy and procedures.
This is a varied/multifaceted, dynamic role where youll be offered the opportunity to combine your clinical knowledge with your leadership experience to enhance patient care and make a difference. Applicants must: Be a Registered Nurse (NMC registration required) Be enthusiastic and committed to providing high quality patient care with strong communication and administration skills.
Have expertise in long term condition management Possess a positive proactive attitude Have a passion to develop others, leading by best practice Inspire a positive, safe, forward thinking environment Demonstrate successful leadership skills If you're seeking an environment that values teamwork and patient centred care, this could be for you!
We'd welcome informal introductions should you have any questions pre application or if you'd just like to find out a bit more, Please get in touch (Please see contact details)
About us
On 1 October 26, Cowes Medical Centre and Newport Health Centre formally merged under a single partnership structure. Whilst both practices continue to operate under separate GMS contracts, responsibility for the overall management and delivery of services now sits with one partnership.
This development presents an exciting opportunity to bring together the knowledge, skills, and experience that exist across both sites, whilst retaining the strengths and local identity of each practice. The merger creates a platform for greater collaboration, shared learning, and more consistent ways of working across teams.
By combining expertise and aligning processes, the practices can build on existing successes, improve resilience, enhance patient services, and create a more integrated approach to care.
We have a diverse, multi-disciplinary team which includes GP Partners, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Paramedics, MSK Practitioners, Mental Health Practitioners, Practice Nurses, HCAs, Chronic Pain Coach, Care Coordinators, a Social Prescriber and many more vital roles to support our community. We are proud of our clinical standards, demonstrated by high QOF achievement and Good across CQC domains. We pride ourselves on being flexible.
Our team are actively involved with our Hampshire & IOW ICB, Central & West PCN, LMC and many other local networks.
Job responsibilities
The Lead Nurse will provide professional leadership and oversight of nursing services across both practice sites, working collaboratively to bring teams together and promote a unified approach to patient care. The role will support the sharing of knowledge, skills, and best practice, ensuring consistency in clinical processes, service delivery, and patient experience.
Through effective communication, engagement, and leadership, the Lead Nurse will drive collaboration across teams, streamline ways of working, and support the continuous development of an integrated and high-performing nursing service. To support the scale and scope of this cross-site leadership role, the Lead Nurse will be supported by a Deputy Lead Nurse at each practice site.
These deputies will provide day-to-day operational leadership, maintain a visible presence within their respective teams, and support the implementation of agreed standards, processes, and service developments. This structure will ensure effective local oversight whilst enabling the Lead Nurse to focus on leadership, service integration, workforce development, and the continued alignment of nursing services across both sites.
This role will be pivotal to Provide leadership to the practice nurse team for both Newport Health Centre and Cowes Medical Centre (comprising of practice nurses and HCAs) in collaboration with the general practitioners and wider team to develop an effective, quality driven general practice nurse service.
Promote nursing practice underpinned by the development of evidence-based practice guidelines, for shared delivery of care to our whole practice population. Ensure clinical effectiveness by monitoring key quality indicators, auditing nursing practice, reviewing patient outcomes, and supporting continuous quality improvement initiatives.
Use data and feedback to identify trends, drive service improvements, and ensure nursing services across both sites consistently deliver safe, effective, and high-quality patient care Role and responsibilities Clinical practice Practice independently in accordance with NMC code of conduct and with reference to practice guidelines, appropriately referring to GPs Maintain accurate documentation of care and utilisation of IT Ensure continuation of own personal and professional development, facilitated by utilisation of clinical supervision networks.
Lead and develop the nursing team Provide focus for nursing expertise within practice, advising nursing staff, appropriate to level of competence Identify training needs of practice nurse team and actively promote life-long learning, including PREP requirements Ensure quality annual appraisals are completed Share responsibility for ensuring effective inter-practice communication Ensure skills of practice nurse team are appropriately and effectively used to deliver care.
Ensure care is delivered by practice nurse team members with relevant and appropriate skills. Ensure that efficient and appropriate stock control is in place. Ensure adequate and appropriate practice nurse cover is available within practice. Wider primary health care team role Advance clinical nursing practice in the wider nursing team through the development of shared, evidence-based practice guidelines.
Lead the development and monitoring of key quality markers for practice guidelines, thereby promoting clinical effectiveness. Actively participate in educational programmes including medical students and GP registrar, in relation to areas of clinical and practice nursing expertise. Co-ordinate and administrate monthly nursing focus meetings for wider nursing team.
Provide a point of contact for nursing expertise for practice partnership and management. Plan, develop, implement and evaluate new health promotion and chronic disease management services. Provide professional advice on practice developments, recommending changes to working practices in line with evidence-based knowledge.
Confidentiality In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters.
They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation.
All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data Health & safety The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures.
This will include (but will not be limited to): Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements Management and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practice, including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing correct usage by staff Responsible for hand hygiene across the practice Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that provision of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc. are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment.
Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate. Safe management of sharps procedures, including training, use, storage and disposal Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile way, safe and free from hazards.
Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually) Routine management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of work space standards Waste management, including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection Spillage control procedures, management and training Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance Maintenance of sterile environments Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Equality and diversity: The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include: Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work Quality The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs Please review the full Job description and person specification that can be found under '
