Experienced Practice Nurse and Director of Nursing

Director of Nursing (Band 8c) 12 hours per week (Fixed-Term for 12 months)

• Leading the nursing workforce and supporting professional development.
• Overseeing clinical governance, quality assurance, and risk management.
• Contributing to organisational strategy and regulatory compliance.
• Championing evidence-based practice and continuous improvement.
• Supporting workforce planning, recruitment, and retention initiatives.
• Providing inspiring leadership to the nursing and clinical teams.
• Overseeing nurse education, development, and workforce planning.
• Supporting innovation, clinical effectiveness, and service improvement.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks and upholding the highest standards of patient care.

• Routine treatment room duties (wound care, cervical cytology, vaccinations, long-term conditions support).
• Health promotion and chronic disease management (diabetes, COPD, hypertension, Heart Failure, Mental Health).
• Supporting QOF and practice wide clinical objectives.
• Delivering high quality, patient centred care.

This role offers a rare opportunity to lead, shape, and strengthen nursing services across our four practice sites, ensuring consistently high standards of safe, person centred and effective care. This post is open to experienced Practice Nurses ready to step into strategic leadership, or Advanced Nurse Practitioners with established leadership experience looking to progress into an organisational-level role. This is an exciting opportunity for a senior clinician who enjoys both strategic oversight and direct patient care, and who wishes to contribute to high quality service delivery within a supportive, forward thinking primary care environment.

We are a partnership with a strong and proud nursing focus, shaped over many years by our previous Nurse Partner whose leadership, innovation, and commitment to high quality patient care remain central to how we work today. We are looking for a candidate who will continue this legacy, someone who values clinical excellence, supports nursing development, and is passionate about strengthening the nursing voice within the partnership.