Job Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Lead Practice Nurse to join our friendly GP Practice at Lingwell Croft Surgery in Middleton, Leeds.
If you are looking for a large, well-managed, friendly practice that believes in work-life balance, then this could be the place for you.
Ideally, we would like candidates:
1. To be qualified in at least two LTCs, particularly a diabetes qualification or be prepared to work towards one.
2. Have a prescribing qualification.
3. To have had leadership experience.
Main Duties of the Job:
To lead a nursing team, responsible for ensuring that the practice provides an optimum service of nursing care relevant to the patient population; working to agreed protocols.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Meeting patients' nursing care needs as identified, or where care has been transferred to the nurse by a GP. This will usually be in the surgery but occasional home visits may also be required.
2. Initiating and maintaining health screening and promotion clinics for identified areas of the practice population, recognizing where modification of systems or referral is necessary.
3. Managing the nursing care of patients with chronic disease. Accurate and efficient input of data for GMS contract purposes is also required.
4. Providing leadership to the nursing team.
About Us
We are a partner-owned practice and have just one site with a patient list size of over 15,500.
We have nine GPs, three Advanced Nurse Practitioners, two clinical Pharmacists, a pharmacy technician, Physios, a Mental health team, and a highly qualified Nursing team of 8.
We are a well-organized, high-performing practice with a Good rating with CQC; who prides themselves on continuous improvement.
We are heavily involved in the local PCN and have the Clinical Director, Clinical Lead, and PCN Manager based at our surgery.
We fully support the training and development of our nursing staff as well as training Registrars and student Nurses at the practice.
We offer NHS agenda for change holiday entitlement (27-33 days) and NHS pension.
The practice's ethos is to provide excellent patient care and also to have a happy workplace and work-life balance.
Date Posted: 14 April 2025
Pay Scheme: Other
Salary: £35,339 to £52,419 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference Number: A3278-25-0002
Job Locations:
16 Shelldrake Drive, Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS10 3NB
Job Responsibilities:
Main Purpose of Job:
To lead a nursing team, responsible for ensuring that the practice provides an optimum service of nursing care relevant to the patient population; working to agreed protocols.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Meeting patients' nursing care needs as identified, or where care has been transferred to the nurse by a GP. This will usually be in the surgery but occasional home visits may also be required.
2. Initiating and maintaining health screening and promotion clinics for identified areas of the practice population, recognizing where modification of systems or referral is necessary.
3. Managing the nursing care of patients with chronic disease. Accurate and efficient input of data for GMS contract purposes is also required.
4. Providing leadership to the nursing team.
Prescribing:
Ideally have the prescribing qualification, or be prepared to work towards it.
Long Term Conditions:
Nurses to be qualified in at least two of the following long-term conditions, one of which ideally diabetes, or be prepared to study diabetes:
Diabetes:
1. Initiates the process of diagnosis of patients with suspected diabetes.
2. Manages patients newly diagnosed with diabetes under protocols.
3. Undertakes annual review of patients' understanding and ability to self-manage.
4. Refers to dieticians, chiropodists, and diabetes and specialist nurses.
5. Maintains a disease register.
6. Audits outcomes of care against standards and initiates changes as necessary.
Cardiovascular Disease:
1. Works with patients to set action plans for changes of lifestyle.
2. Provides support for patients by assessing interventions and treatments.
Respiratory Care:
1. Manages newly diagnosed patients with asthma and COPD.
2. Maintains a disease register.
3. Works within agreed local guidelines to manage patients with asthma, aiding diagnosis, reviewing inhaler technique, and advising on treatment changes.
Clinical Nursing Practice:
1. Assess, plan, provide, and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of individuals and groups in the practice population.
2. Assess, diagnose, and treat specific diseases in accordance with agreed medical/nursing protocols.
3. Undertake diagnostic, health screening, health surveillance, and therapeutic interventions within a broader health promotion/public health strategy.
4. Wound care including compression.
5. Women's health including cervical screening and contraception.
Care and Programme Management:
1. Develop profile of the practice population in order to initiate, contribute, and promote improved health and prevent disease in individuals and groups.
2. Initiate and carry out programmes of health screening.
3. Manage programmes of care for patients with acute and chronic diseases by planning, providing, and evaluating care.
4. Support and enable individuals, carers, groups, and communities to take action to meet their priorities for health.
5. Vaccinations and immunisations of babies, children, and adults.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential:
* Degree in Nursing qualification.
* Two Long term condition diplomas including diabetes.
* Training in sexual health and cervical cytology.
* Wound care management.
* Trained in giving Baby and childhood immunisations.
Desirable:
* Independent prescriber.
* Minor illness qualification.
* Telephone triage experience.
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 Registration:
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details:
Employer Name: Lingwell Croft Surgery
Address: 16 Shelldrake Drive, Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS10 3NB
Employer's Website: https://www.lingwellcroft.co.uk/#
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