Lead Nurse (30hrs pwk)

Job summary
Henmore Health is looking to recruit an experienced, motivated and practical Lead Nurse to provide clinical leadership and day-to-day support to our nursing team across our Ashbourne and Brailsford sites.

This is a key senior role for a nurse who enjoys combining hands-on general practice nursing with team leadership, service development and quality improvement. The postholder will help ensure our nursing services are safe, consistent, efficient and aligned with commissioned requirements.

PLEASE APPLY DIRECT VIA EMAIL TO View email address on meeveem.com with your CV and short email introducing yourself. The closing date is midnight on 2nd November 2026, although we reserve the right to close early or extend.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership and day-to-day guidance to the nursing team.
• Line manage and support a team of around 5 to 6 nursing colleagues, including appraisals, 1 to 1s, supervision and competency oversight.
• Support safe, consistent and effective delivery of nurse-led services across both sites.
• Review nursing processes, clinic structures, recall systems and template use to improve efficiency and consistency.
• Work with the Quality Team to improve QOF coding, template use, recall processes and performance.
• Use SystmOne and Ardens Templates effectively to support accurate records, coding and patient care.
• Review relevant service specifications and commissioned requirements, acting as the clinical eyes on whether nursing services are being delivered safely, consistently and as expected.
• Support development in diabetes, respiratory disease, contraception, womens health and LARC services according to experience, competence and service need.
• Maintain an appropriate clinical caseload alongside protected leadership and management time.

About us
Henmore Health is a multi-site general practice providing care across Ashbourne and Brailsford. We are developing our nursing leadership structure to strengthen supervision, clinical governance, service consistency and quality improvement across the team.

Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Clinical Leadership and Oversight

• Act as the recognised clinical lead for the nursing team
• Provide day-to-day guidance on clinical practice and decision-making within scope
• Support safe, evidence-based care across all nursing clinics
• Lead on the development and implementation of clinical protocols and pathways
• Ensure alignment with current NICE guidance, local ICB requirements and best practice
• Act as the escalation point for nursing clinical queries where appropriate
• Review relevant service specifications and commissioned requirements, providing clinical input on whether nursing services are being delivered safely, consistently and in line with expectations
• Work with the Quality Team to identify clinical coding, template, recall or workflow issues that affect QOF achievement, patient care or commissioned service delivery

2. Line Management and Team Support

• Provide first-line support and line management for the nursing team, including Practice Nurses, Nursing Associates and HCAs.
• Undertake
• Appraisals
• Regular 121s
• Probation reviews where required
• Manage performance or conduct concerns in collaboration with the Operations Manager and HR processes where required.
• Support team wellbeing, retention, communication and consistency across both sites.

Importantly, this includes supporting resolution of differing clinical opinions within the team, ensuring decisions are

• Evidence-based
• Pragmatic
• Consistent across sites

3. Service Development and Improvement

• Lead ongoing review of nurse-led services including long-term condition reviews, diabetes, respiratory disease, contraception, cytology and womens health.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, flow, and use of skill mix
• Streamline nursing processes, recalls, clinic templates and appointment use across both sites, using SystmOne and Ardens Templates consistently
• Support safe innovation and new ways of working
• Work with the Operations Manager to align workforce planning, clinic structure and skill mix with patient need and commissioned requirements.
• Review diabetes, respiratory, contraception, womens health and other nurse-led services to ensure capacity, competence and processes match patient need and commissioned requirements

4. Clinical Governance

• Support clinical governance processes relating to the nursing team, including
• Significant events
• Audits
• Protocol compliance
• Contribute to CQC preparedness and quality assurance
• Ensure appropriate documentation and consistent use of clinical systems, including SystmOne and Ardens Templates.
• Support accurate coding, QOF achievement and quality improvement by working closely with the Quality Team and wider clinical team

5. Workforce Development, Education and Training

• Support training and development of the nursing team, including
• Newly appointed staff
• Role progression (e.g. Band 5 to Band 6)
• Scope expansion (e.g. smears, contraception, chronic disease management)
• Development in diabetes, respiratory disease, contraception, LARC fitting and womens health, according to existing competence and service need
• Help identify training needs and opportunities
• Support supervision structures and work collaboratively with the Nurse Clinical Supervisor where applicable.

The Lead Nurse will play a key role in supporting the development of the practice as a multidisciplinary training environment, including expansion of nursing and nursing associate placements.

The postholder will

• Undertake appropriate preparation to fulfil the role of Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (SSSA)
• Maintain competence in these roles through ongoing update training as required
• Support the development of the practice as an approved learning environment for
• Student nurses
• Trainee nursing associates
• Other relevant learners within primary care
• Provide supervision, support and assessment of learners in practice, appropriate to level of qualification
• Work with the Training Hub, university partners, and internal leadership to
• Establish and maintain nursing training placements
• Ensure appropriate supervision capacity across the team
• Contribute to quality assurance and learner feedback processes
• Promote a positive learning culture within the nursing team, supporting colleagues to take on supervision roles over time

6. Clinical Responsibilities
The postholder will maintain a clinical caseload appropriate to their competence, experience and service needs, which may include

• Long-term condition reviews, including diabetes and respiratory disease, according to competence and training
• Independent prescribing, where already qualified and appropriate to the role
• Womens health, contraception and LARC fitting, where already competent or following agreed training
• Supporting complex or escalated patient cases
• Use of SystmOne and Ardens Templates to support consistent assessment, coding, recalls and follow-up

Clinical time will be balanced with leadership responsibilities.

7. Cross-Organisational Working and Commissioned Services
Work collaboratively with the Operations Manager, GP partners, Local Governance Officer, Quality Team and wider clinical team.

• Act as the bridge between clinical and operational decision-making for the nursing team
• Contribute to wider organisational planning where nursing, commissioned service or clinical delivery input is required.
• Act as a clinical link for commissioned nursing services, reviewing specifications and advising whether delivery, coding and clinical processes are appropriate

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• NMC Registration
• Willingness to undertake Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor training (NMC SSSA)

Desirable

• Independent Prescriber

Experience
Essential

• Significant experience in general practice or primary care nursing
• Experience supporting or supervising staff
• Experience in long-term condition management, with an understanding of QOF and the importance of accurate coding and template use

Desirable

• Experience in service development or leading change
• Experience reviewing service specifications, audits, local enhanced services or commissioned pathways

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. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).