Clinical Nurse Manager

Job summary

The Clinical Nurse Manager has operational responsibility for providing clinical, managerial and professional leadership in the running of the wider nursing team and influencing the future service delivery and nursing strategy, accountable for the delivery and standards of care provided to patient and ensuring safe effective person-centred care. This includes promoting a culture of compliance with the infection prevention and control programme and facilitating compliance with policy, to ensure Affinity Care achieves locally and nationally set targets. Lead in the appraisal and setting of personal development plans for senior nursing staff and healthcare assistants including ensuring access to continuing professional development , performance management and implementation of revalidation processes for the nursing team.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for leading, developing and delivering high quality patient focused services within areas of responsibility, ensuring the provision of safe and effective care, considering clinical expertise as a significant part of the decision-making process.

To support Affinity Cares values of quality, teamwork, care and compassion, dignity and respect, and openness, honesty and responsibility through the application of appropriate, behaviours and attitudes.

To manage and lead the nursing resource for the Clinical Team within the parameters of the NMC Code of Conduct and Affinity Cares governance standards and compliance requirements, ensuring that patient needs are assessed, care planned, implemented and evaluated and documented.

To provide leadership and direction to the nursing resource to enable the Clinical Team to

meet its performance targets, whilst ensuring all the nursing care is person centred and quality standards are met.

Responsible for the development and implementation of operational plans and strategies, designed to achieve local objectives in line with National targets.

To manage the nursing resource within the delegated budget and establishment, taking opportunities to realise efficiency gains through skill-mix and reductions in bank and agency usage, establishing and implementing a proactive monitoring system to manage performance in this area.

About us

We are Affinity Care Primary Care Network covering a population of over 64,000 patients over 7 GP practices and 8 sites, all in the Bradford area. Our ethos is to provide patient focused care based on the model of GP-led family orientated general practice tailored to local population needs. Our practices are highly accredited training practices, level 3 research ready sites within an embedded ethos of our learning organisation.

We are a friendly enthusiastic and hard working team with opportunities for career progression and will provide support and development for anyone demonstrating capability, enthusiasm, commitment and strong work ethic.

Benefits include:

• 5 weeks annual leave (pro rata for part time hours)
• Birthday Holiday
• Well-being day
• NHS pension