Job summary
The Humbleyard Practice is seeking a capable and highly motivated practice nurse to join our team as nurse manager. This is a leadership opportunity for a nurse with enthusiasm, commitment, and good communication skills to develop our loyal and well-established nursing team. The role will involve applying your primary-care nursing experience to help both experienced and new-to-primary care nurses develop their skills and confidence within a busy 3-surgery general practice setting.
Main duties of the job
Candidates will embrace our core values of: compassion & kindness, professionalism, growth, candour, and promoting an uplifting work environment. The practice understands that staff thrive when they feel valued and see a progressive career path.
About us
We are a large, semi-rural, dispensing, research and GP training practice, operating over three surgery sites just to the southwest of the fine city of Norwich. We have a fast-growing list size of 22,000 patients and we are part of the 5-practice Ketts Oak Primary Care Network.
We would welcome interested candidates contacting us to arrange an informal visit through sending an email to humbleyard.d82064@nhs.net.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The nurse manager will help the practice support our nurses to access development opportunities and we welcome discussions about general career progression. Generous and appropriate protected management time will be offered to achieve this important activity and other leadership tasks. This includes NHS leadership training for the successful candidate.
The nurse manager will also be required to provide more general leadership and management alongside the GP partners and management team in our aim of providing good quality patient care.
Please see the attached job description for further information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The nurse manager will help the practice support our nurses to access development opportunities and we welcome discussions about general career progression. Generous and appropriate protected management time will be offered to achieve this important activity and other leadership tasks. This includes NHS leadership training for the successful candidate.
The nurse manager will also be required to provide more general leadership and management alongside the GP partners and management team in our aim of providing good quality patient care.
Please see the attached job description for further information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A relevant nursing degree.
- Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Practice nurse experience.
- Competence to undertake some or all of asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
- Evidence of clinical skills and experience in some of all of treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
- Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
- Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
- Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A relevant nursing degree.
- Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Practice nurse experience.
- Competence to undertake some or all of asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
- Evidence of clinical skills and experience in some of all of treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
- Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
- Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
- Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.
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 (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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 (opens in a new window).
