Lead Nurse / Advanced Practitioner
Build the nursing and clinical teams that will change how primary care is delivered in your Brighton community. This isn’t a role for someone looking to simply step into an established team and maintain the status quo. We’re looking for a Lead Nurse / Advanced Practitioner with a builder’s mindset – someone who enjoys creating, improving and leading through change, and who is excited by the opportunity to help shape what a great primary care team looks like from the ground up. Over the last two years, we’ve been on a significant transformation journey across our Brighton practices. We’ve made substantial changes to how we work, strengthened our clinical and operational approach and are now bringing our Sussex practices much closer together, enabling teams to share expertise, resources and support. We’re now taking the next step. Allied Medical Practice and Ship Street Surgery are coming together as one group, with plans to move into purpose-built practices next year. This will give us the capacity and infrastructure to significantly grow our patient population and build a modern primary care service for the future. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for someone who wants to help build the team, the culture and the clinical service that will take us into that next chapter. This is a genuine opportunity to make your mark.
Building and developing the clinical team
You’ll provide leadership, coaching and mentorship to Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, helping to establish a strong, capable and confident clinical workforce. You’ll have a particularly important role in building team capability and culture, creating clear expectations and supporting colleagues to develop.
Setting the clinical standard
You’ll provide advanced clinical assessment and care while acting as a visible role model for clinical excellence. You’ll help establish consistent standards of practice, ensuring patients receive safe, effective and evidence-based care.
Driving quality and governance
You’ll play a key role in strengthening clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and compliance. You’ll be comfortable identifying where things need to improve – and, importantly, you’ll enjoy working out how to make those improvements happen.
Leading change
Change is a significant part of this role. You’ll help implement new ways of working, develop clinical pathways and bring colleagues with you as we continue to evolve the service. We’re looking for someone who can stay positive and focused when things are changing, adapt quickly and keep the bigger picture in mind.
Developing people
You’ll create opportunities for colleagues to learn, grow and take ownership of their professional development. Through coaching, mentoring, one-to-ones and development plans, you’ll help build a team that is confident, accountable and proud of the care it provides.
Improving the service
You’ll work with clinical and operational colleagues to identify opportunities to improve patient outcomes, access, preventative care and the overall patient experience. You’ll be encouraged to challenge existing ways of working and bring forward brave ideas about how we can do things better.
Working as one team
Our Brighton practices are increasingly connected to our wider IC24 primary care network across Sussex. You’ll have access to colleagues, expertise and support across our other practices, giving you the opportunity to learn from what works elsewhere and share your own ideas and successes.
What we’re looking for
You’ll need:
- First Level Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
- Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
- Experience working within General Practice, Primary Care or Urgent Care
- Strong clinical leadership and decision-making skills
- Experience supporting, mentoring or managing clinical teams
- Understanding of clinical governance, quality improvement and audit
- A genuine interest in developing people and building high-performing teams
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- The resilience, adaptability and confidence to lead through change
- A proactive, organised and continuous-improvement mindset
We’re particularly interested in people who have built or transformed teams, services or ways of working – whether that’s within primary care, urgent care or another complex healthcare environment. Most importantly, you’ll care deeply about patients, have high clinical standards and genuinely enjoy helping people and services become better.
Why now?
We’re at an exciting point in the journey. Over the next few years we’re bringing our Sussex practices closer together, creating stronger links between teams and sharing expertise and resources across our services. At Brighton, Allied Medical Practice and Ship Street Surgery are being brought together as one group, with plans to move into purpose‑built practices next year. That investment will give us the opportunity to significantly increase our capacity and grow our patient population and deliver exceptional care to the residents of Brighton. We’re not looking for someone to simply run the nursing team we have today. We’re looking for someone who wants to help build the nursing team we’ll need tomorrow.
Who are we?
Integrated Care 24 (IC24) is a leading not‑for‑profit social enterprise providing NHS 111, GP Out of Hours, primary care and urgent care services to more than six million patients across the UK. Every day, our people help patients access the care they need, when they need it most. As a social enterprise, we’re driven by purpose. We reinvest in our services and our people, and we’re committed to finding better ways to deliver care for the communities we serve. We celebrate brave ideas and brave people.
Location
Allied Medical Practice, Brighton. Travel to other IC24 sites may occasionally be required to support service needs.
careers.ic24.org.uk
What’s in it for you?
- £54,140.87 per annum
- 6.6 weeks’ annual leave
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
- Learning and development opportunities to support your career journey
- Employee Assistance Programme including free 24/7 counselling support
- Access to health and wellbeing initiatives
- Blue Light Card discounts
- Colleague recognition and reward schemes
- The opportunity to play a key leadership role in a growing and transforming service
- The chance to build a team and shape a service rather than simply inherit one
- The opportunity to make a genuine and lasting impact within a growing Social Enterprise
We celebrate brave ideas and brave people.
Due to the nature of this position, employment is subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK, a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all and encourage applications from ethnic minorities, those with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, neurodiverse individuals, and other under‑represented groups. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong.
If you need any workplace adjustments during the application or interview process, or have accessibility requirements, please contact the recruitment team.
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