Band 8a Clinical Lead Nurse

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

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 :

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 :

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.

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