Lead Nurse

Affidea is Europe's leading provider of out-of-hospital healthcare, operating over 420 centres across 14 countries, providing high-quality medical services to nearly 15 million patients every year. We specialise in advanced diagnostic imaging, community based poly-clinics and specialist healthcare services. Our continued growth reflects our commitment to bringing high-quality, accessible healthcare closer to the communities we serve. 

Affidea UK & Ireland

In the UK and Ireland, Affidea operates a growing network of diagnostic imaging and minor injuries centres, delivering a broad range of cutting-edge imaging technology and healthcare services to the public, private insurers, employers, and other organisations. As part of our ongoing expansion, we're extending our presence into new regions, including our upcoming clinic in London and hospital in Belfast offering exciting opportunities to be part of a business that's shaping the future of accessible, community-based healthcare across the region

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Nurse ( CNM1 ) to join our team in Cork.

The Lead Nurse is central in leading, motivating, and managing the team of nurses to deliver high-quality, patient-focused care. Acting as an expert practitioner, the Lead Nurse ensures evidence-based clinical nursing is provided within a safe and efficient environment, while supporting continuous service improvement and staff development and meeting the company’s clinical, strategic and business goals..

Leadership & Clinical Management:

• Provide clinical leadership to the nursing team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.

• Support and participate service development initiatives in partnership with the Clinic Manager/Nurse Services Manager

• Adjust staffing resources dynamically to ensure continuity of care.

• Roster, assign nurses to different clinics and duties and participate in the overall delivery of care in the Express Care Service, and in other Clinics provided.

• Provide assistance to the Nurse Services Manager in the management of all clinical services in the Cork Clinic.

• Ensure nurses practice within the scope of NMBI, and all professional guidelines.
  

Patient Care & Safety:

• Maintain an appropriate, competent and safe clinical environment, ensuring hygiene standards and infection prevention and control protocols / standard precautions are maintained.

• Support multidisciplinary collaboration, coordinating with medical, radiography, and allied healthcare professionals.

• Ensure timely scheduling of procedures, working closely with medical and radiography staff.

• Promote patient-centered care, ensuring effective communication and support for patients and their families.

• Deal with patient concerns, issues and queries, and respond to patients, partners and contractors on all aspects of the running of the ExpressCare service.
  

Operational & Strategic Responsibilities:

• Work closely on all matters of the clinic with the Nurse Services Manager

• Directly manage nursing staff, including rostering and performance management.

• Coordinate mandatory training and maintain up-to-date records.

• Oversee clinical audits and manage incident reporting to maintain high patient care standards.

• Identify areas for service improvement and initiate quality-enhancing initiatives preparing the unit for JCI accreditation and maintaining the IPSG6 principles in all aspects of the clinics operation.

Qualifications & Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or equivalent

• Active Registration in the General Division of NMBI

• Minimum 5 years post-registration experience in acute general hospital settings, with at least 2 years in Emergency Nursing.

• Managerial experience in a healthcare setting 

• Experience in clinical teaching or mentoring student nurses.

• Ability to analyse, report, and drive improvements in nursing practice.

•  Strong strategic planning and relationship-building skills across complex healthcare environments.

Application Process:

By clicking apply to this role your application will not only be considered for this position, but your details will be stored on our database and may be considered for similar future positions that may arise. This means that the personal data contained in your application and provided to Affidea as part of the application process may be retained by us for up to 12 months from the date of your application. After this time, it will be deleted. If you do not wish your details to be stored on our recruitment database, please email Affidea recruitment stating this and we will ensure that such information is not stored other than for the purposes of this application. Please refer to our Recruitment Privacy Notice for more information or to Affidea’s Data Privacy Notice for Recruitment