Band 8a Clinical Lead Nurse - #150320

Job Introduction

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality healthcare in the community? We’re excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Clinical Lead—or a developmental role for an experienced District Nurse or Community Matron—to join our senior leadership team within Adult Community Services in Surrey.

As a Clinical Lead, you will provide outstanding professional leadership, with a strong focus on patient safety and the quality of care. You will bring expert knowledge in Community Nursing to support your team, drive forward service improvement, and lead on clinical excellence, research, education, and the advancement of community nursing practice. Your work will align with both local priorities and national healthcare strategies.

Based at Farnham Hospital, this role covers the Surrey Heath locality, and you will be expected to travel across the area as required.

Main Responsibility

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead on the development and implementation of clinical guidelines and policies.
• Provide expert clinical advice across services, the local health economy, and, where appropriate, beyond the organisation.
• Identify and respond to the health needs of the local population, supporting wider public health strategies and initiatives.
• Hold clinical and managerial responsibility for the on-call service within a defined area.
• Engage in management supervision, one-to-ones, and coaching to support personal and professional development.
• Take responsibility for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of services.
• Conduct and participate in research and audits to inform and improve service delivery.
• Ensure compliance with CQC standards and lead on aspects of clinical governance.
• Monitor and evaluate service performance, including working practices, activity levels, demand, and capacity.
• Use project management methodologies to lead on service redesign and drive forward strategic change.
• Demonstrate strong business acumen, including marketing strategies and an understanding of commissioning processes.
• Develop and present robust business cases to support service development and improvement.
• Take accountability for financial planning, analysis, and management within the service.
• Deliver education, training, and presentations across the health and social care economy.
• Support workforce planning and the development of individuals, teams, and the wider service.
• Act as a champion for research and evidence-based practice.
  
  

Please refer to the full job description attached for a comprehensive list of responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• 1 st Level NMC Registration
• Post registration qualification appropriate to role at BSc or MSc level
• 5 - 7 Years Senior Practitioner level
• Demonstration of Leadership and Management at level 7
• Advanced communication skills including interpersonal skills, liaison, influencing, and negotiation skills, writing and presentation skills.
  
  

While not essential, holding a V300 Independent Prescribing qualification—or a strong desire to work towards obtaining it—is highly desirable. Additionally, experience in project management and confidence in data analysis would be advantageous to support service development and strategic planning.

Other requirements:

• Full driving licence and access to a car during working hours
• Occasional exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions.
• Frequent contact with body fluids.
  
  

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Band 8a Clinical Lead Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• AFC Band 8a salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
  
  

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Attached documents