Lead Nurse for PCN Nursing

Job responsibilities

PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP OF PCN NURSING TEAMS

• Provide professional leadership to the PCN nurses (RGNs, Nurse Associates and General Practice Assistants), maximising the performance of individuals and the efficiency and effectiveness of the teams, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality services for patients.

• Undertake annual appraisals and reviews of personal development plans.

• Review and amend job descriptions to reflect changes in roles and responsibilities.

• Provide professional and personal support for staff when required, particularly in relation to issues that affect their ability to work. Implement PICS absence management policy.

• Work alongside PCN managers to Identify the nursing requirements to meet the PCN population need, assessing the impact and implementation of skill-mix in the delivery of care and developing new services and adjusting skill-mix as required.

• Participate in the recruitment of nursing staff as required and implement induction and probation programmes for new nursing staff

• Facilitate regular operational meetings for individual PCN nursing teams - ensuring agendas and minutes are available

DELIVERY OF HIGH QUALITY, EFFECTIVE SERVICES

• Support the nursing teams in contributing to meeting PCN targets, encouraging flexibility in roles to meet changing demands

• Support the nursing team to carry out screening, immunisation and health promotion activities when required by PCNs.

• Support with the development of PICS-wide and protocols and policies, promoting evidence-based practice.

• Support the implementation of and adherence to local/national policies, proposed developments and improvements to service delivery.

• Ensure the nurses produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultations, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures, monitoring this through regular audits of clinical records.

• Ensure the completion of clinical audit cycles as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of the nurses against standards, implementing improvements where required - including annual audits of NMPs

• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation and lead on the maintenance of quality governance systems for the nursing team.

• Using Datix system, undertake the investigation of any patient safety incidents and patient feedback relating to PCN nursing

COMMUNICATION AND TEAMWORK

• Build and oversee cohesive and effective PCN nursing teams which work effectively within the wider PCN team.

• Develop effective relationships with PCN management teams and GP practice staff where PCN Nurses / GPAs work.

• Organise and chair bi-monthly PCN Nursing Governance meetings to share good practice, new clinical knowledge & guidance and to disseminate learning from PICS Clinical Governance Committee.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

• Develop own knowledge and practice to meet objectives/changes in service, through attendance at participative learning events, self-directed learning, clinical supervision and reflection on practice.

• Disseminate learning and information to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments.

• Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.

• Ensure that all mandatory training is completed by nurses and GPAs.

• Develop training plans for the nursing teams to support their professional development and meet the needs of the service.

• Support nurses to meet the requirements of revalidation with the NMC.

• Facilitate opportunities for clinical supervision and monitor that all nurses undertake structured reflection on practice.

• Encourage nursing staff participation in local practice nurse forums / PLT events and ...