Job summary
Are you an experienced practice nurse ready to make a bigger impact?

Spirit Primary Care is looking for an experienced, motivated Lead Nurse to provide clinical leadership, helping nurses across our practices feel supported, confident and equipped to deliver consistently high-quality patient care.

This is an exciting opportunity for an independent prescriber who wants to combine their own clinical practice with a wider leadership role.

Main duties of the job
As Lead Nurse, you will become a key clinical resource for our practice nursing teams.

Your role will include:

• Providing senior clinical support and advice to practice nurses, including support with complex clinical situations.
• Acting as a clinical escalation point and working collaboratively with GPs, Clinical Directors and the wider MDT.
• Identifying training, competency and development needs across our nursing workforce.
• Developing and delivering clinical training, education sessions and case-based learning.
• Supporting newly appointed, developing and experienced nurses to broaden their skills and confidence.
• Keeping up to date with NICE, NHS England, professional and local ICB/PCN guidance and translating changes into practical information for our teams.
• Supporting clinical governance, audits, significant events, complaints and quality improvement activity.
• Helping develop clinical pathways, protocols, policies and standard operating procedures.
• Identifying opportunities to improve and standardise nursing practice across our practices.
• Supporting the development of new clinical services and the future role of nursing within SPC.
• Maintaining your own clinical practice through regular patient-facing clinics.
• Using your independent prescribing qualification safely and effectively within your professional competence, local formulary and SPC policies.

About us
Spirit Primary Care is an at-scale provider of GP services across the Midlands, supporting tens of thousands of patients across multiple practices.

Working at scale allows us to share expertise, resources and learning across our teams, while keeping high-quality, patient-centred care at the heart of what we do.

You'll be joining a team that values clinical excellence, learning, collaboration and continuous improvement, with the opportunity to shape nursing practice across multiple sites rather than working within just one practice.

Job responsibilities
Your role will include:

• Providing senior clinical support and advice to practice nurses, including support with complex clinical situations.
• Acting as a clinical escalation point and working collaboratively with GPs, Clinical Directors and the wider MDT.
• Identifying training, competency and development needs across our nursing workforce.
• Developing and delivering clinical training, education sessions and case-based learning.
• Supporting newly appointed, developing and experienced nurses to broaden their skills and confidence.
• Keeping up to date with NICE, NHS England, professional and local ICB/PCN guidance and translating changes into practical information for our teams.
• Supporting clinical governance, audits, significant events, complaints and quality improvement activity.
• Helping develop clinical pathways, protocols, policies and standard operating procedures.
• Identifying opportunities to improve and standardise nursing practice across our practices.
• Supporting the development of new clinical services and the future role of nursing within SPC.
• Maintaining your own clinical practice through regular patient-facing clinics.
• Using your independent prescribing qualification safely and effectively within your professional competence, local formulary and SPC policies.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Nursing degree
• NMC registration without restriction
• Independent prescriber qualification

Experience
Essential

• Experience of leading a nursing and HCA team or working in a more senior nursing role
• Experience within a primary care/PCN setting and supporting staff across multiple sites
• Experience of supporting newly appointed, developing and experienced nurses to broaden their skills and confidence
• Prescribing experience
• Nursing experience within primary care
• Experience of auditing, reviewing and support performance
• Experience of developing clinical pathways, protocols, policies and standard operating procedures

Desirable

• Experience of developing new clinical services and the future role of nursing
• Experience of developing and delivering clinical training, education sessions and case-based learning

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).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.