Clinical Lead

Practice Plus Group are looking for an adept Advanced Practitioner to take a dual managerial and clinical lead role in the provision of a quality service to patients attending the North West & South West London IUCS (OOH & CAS). This role will require you to practice autonomously as an Advanced Nurse/ Clinical Practitioner and also to support the local Service Managers (Registered CQC Managers) in various aspects of the IUCS managerial functions.
A key result area will be your ability to integrate your nursing/clinical subject matter expertise seamlessly with the imperative to deliver a cost effective and heavily monitored service and become an invaluable resource to the Service Managers and Medical Leads, always balancing clinical advice with managerial issues and demands such as (e.g.) cost, spend, KPI achievement and workforce planning and operational management.
Practising as a senior and credible Nurse/Clinical Practitioner and in doing so becoming a role model for other staff, you must be able to supervise, teach, coach and mentor other healthcare professionals.
This role will be based in our Uxbridge office with regular travel to our office in Putney and London Primary Care Centre sites, there is no homeworking available for this position.
Working days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for 6 sessions per week.
What you'll be doing
Medicines Management
· Responsible for the oversight and management of the medicines management policies at local level.
· Collaborate with operational, medical and pharmacy leads to ensure safe pathways and processes are embedded.
· Ensure robust local processes in place, ensuring appropriate levels of medication are available and these stored appropriately.
· Liaise regularly with the Medicines Management Team to ensure processes are up to date and audits are done in a timely fashion.
Safeguarding
· Responsible for the oversight and management of the local safeguarding policies
· Engaging with the relevant ICS and Social Care Teams to establish robust local pathways
· Trained to Level 4 Safeguarding and have a sound understanding of both Child and Adult Safeguarding, providing assurance to local commissioners.
· Provision of safeguarding training and supervision to the team.
· Updating teams on local contextual safeguarding issues.
· Ensuring teams are aware of referral processes, CP-IS alerts and how to raise concerns.
Workforce and Professional Development
· Responsible for driving the recruitment of the non-medical workforce and undertaking interviews in line with the agreed competency frameworks.
· Recognising many new recruits may require personalised development plans to undertake their roles or to extend duties, agree these plans and ensure they are monitored.
What we'll look for in you
1. Registered on the Nursing and Midwifery Council General Register or HCPC or Rpharms register.

2. Must hold and have experience of independent prescribing with a non-medical prescriber qualification (eg V300)
3. Up to date with revalidation.
4. Substantial post qualification practice, with recent experience in:
a. Out of Hours/Primary Care including Home Visiting
b. An Emergency Care Environment
Or…
c. An Urgent Care Centre
Or…
d. A Walk in Centre
Or….
e. A clinical environment where adults and children receive emergency, urgent and/or unscheduled care
5. Extensive and recent occupation of a supervisory, lead or similar managerial role/function
6. Completion of Advanced Clinical Practice Masters level qualification or similar accredited pathway
7. Demonstrably able to work in an interdependent manner with all other professionals and clinicians

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Blue Light Card, Boundless card and Costco membership eligibility
Award winning ED&I programme
Training & Development
Tailored CPD training delivered via our bespoke Learning Management System.
Extensive training courses accessible via Practice Plus Group Skills Academy.
Great development and career progression opportunities.
You get to know people over the weeks and months, and you can see them start to improve when they are having treatment…it's really nice, you can make a difference and help someone overcome difficulties.