Lead Practice Nurse

Job summary

Long Lane Surgery is looking for an experienced Lead Practice Nurse Prescriber to head up our practice nursing team. This is a senior, hands-on role for a Registered Nurse with Independent Prescriber status who wants to combine clinical leadership with direct patient care. You'll manage and mentor a team of Nurses, Nursing Associates, HCAs and Phlebotomists, while remaining an active clinician yourself running chronic disease clinics, prescribing safely within your scope of practice, and supporting public health and screening programmes. It's a great opportunity for someone who wants to shape nursing service delivery, support new-to-practice staff, and help embed population health approaches across a busy general practice.

Main duties of the job

As Lead Practice Nurse Prescriber, you'll provide clinical leadership and professional supervision to the wider nursing and clinical support team, while delivering routine and long-term condition care yourself in line with NICE guidance and evidence-based practice. You'll act as Infection Prevention and Control lead, oversee QOF and chronic disease management, and support immunisation, screening and health promotion programmes. You'll prescribe and administer medicines safely under PGDs and PSDs, ensuring these stay current and compliant, and you'll mentor and support new-to-practice nurses and other healthcare professionals. The role also includes contributing to clinical governance, audits and significant event reviews, handling some HR responsibilities for the nursing team (recruitment, appraisals, rota and training compliance), and leading regular nursing team meetings to drive service improvement.

About us

Long Lane Surgery provides care for more than 14,000 patients. We are committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate healthcare, with a strong focus on inclusivity, continuity and trusted clinician-patient relationships.

Our clinical team includes 2 GP Partners and 9 salaried GPs, 2 Advanced Nurse Practitioners and 3 paramedics, alongside 4 clinical pharmacists and a pharmacy technician. Our nursing team is led by our Lead Practice Nurse and includes a Practice Nurse, a Nursing Associate, 2 Healthcare Assistants and 3 Phlebotomists, all working closely with our GPs to provide excellent clinical care and patient support. We're also supported by a large administrative and reception team.

We are a friendly, supportive and forward-thinking practice where teamwork, respect and professional development are highly valued. Staff benefit from working in a collaborative environment with experienced colleagues, opportunities to broaden skills, and the satisfaction of making a real difference to patients and families every day.

Job responsibilities

Long Lane Surgery is seeking a Lead Practice Nurse Prescriber to join our team on a 27 hours per week basis, reporting to the Operations Manager (with clinical accountability to the Partners). This is a senior nursing role combining hands-on patient care with leadership of our nursing team, which includes Nurses, Nursing Associates, Student Nursing Associates, HCAs and Phlebotomists.

You will be responsible for the effective management of patients with long-term conditions using evidence-based practice, including care for elderly and housebound patients, while supporting public health and screening programmes such as immunisations, cervical screening, and chronic disease management. You'll mentor and supervise new-to-practice nurses and other healthcare professionals, both within the practice and across the wider network, to strengthen integration with community, secondary, and social care services.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) lead, providing audits, training and evidence of compliance, and producing the annual IPC statement
• Leading on long-term condition and QOF management, contributing to practice targets and quality improvement initiatives
• Prescribing, supplying and administering medicines safely within your scope of practice, in line with PGDs, PSDs and legal frameworks
• Providing routine nursing care in line with NICE guidance and the National Service Framework, including wound care, chronic disease clinics, immunisations, travel medicine, and women's health services
• Providing leadership and professional supervision to the wider nursing and clinical support team, including performance, training and development
• Participating in clinical audits, significant event reviews, and root cause analysis, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement
• Supporting HR functions for the nursing team, including recruitment, induction, rota management, appraisals, and training compliance
• Leading regular nursing team meetings and contributing to the development and review of nursing protocols

The successful candidate will be a Registered Nurse with Independent Prescriber status, demonstrable experience in long-term conditions management, and a strong understanding of general practice nursing. In return, you'll join a practice committed to excellence, innovation, and compassionate, patient-centred care, with support for ongoing professional development and clinical supervision.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council)
• Independent Nurse Prescriber
• Evidence of working at the relevant level of practice as described in the Primary Care and General Practice Nursing Career and Core Capabilities Framework

Desirable

• Post graduate diploma or degree
• Demonstrable experience in long-term conditions management and quality improvement