Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Can be flexible working within constraints of the service. May include some weekends to support the service
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 150-KB2511-CC-A
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southgate Medical Group
- Town
- Crawley
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Lead
Band 7
Job overview
We have the pleasure in recruiting an experienced nurse to fill our Clinical Nurse Lead post, who has the Specialist Practitioner Qualification. The post will be based in Crawley and may cover the surrounding areas.
We are looking for someone who is committed to nursing and attaining to the highest standards of assessment, treatment and support to our community patients and their carers.
If you read the job description and specification you will see that the role requires you to have expert clinical knowledge to guide and support staff in the team to provide the best care and support. To be energised in the role to encourage staff to develop and patients to engage in their treatment plans.
Main duties of the job
The post of Clinical Nurse Lead is for an experienced and qualified community specialist practitioner who has advanced practice qualifications including clinical and leadership skills.
You will be expected to coordinate complex care and the assessment and management of long term conditions. Case management skills are required to enable self-management of health, independent living in the home/community, and reduction of hospital admissions through robust contingency plan provision. There will be elements of MDT working where you will attend the MDT meetings to discuss and support patients that come under the 'proactive care' umberalla.
The post holder will also be responsible for staff management, supervision and development, including appraisals and supervision of junior staff, and deputising for the Operational Team Lead in their absence.
As an educator, mentor and preceptor working with others, you will take the lead in the development and supervision, particularly for the community nurses, as well as promoting self-care management principles with patients using innovative patient activation strategies.
The focus of this role is to provide safe, effective and quality clinical care using advanced qualifications to support clinical practise along with strong clinical leadership, advice and support to the team.
Excellent communication and negotiation skills are essential in order to effectively liaise with members of the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To lead the processes for delivering, monitoring and improving the quality of care provided to patients. This includes risk management, complying with and contributing to CQC requirements, incidents and clinical audit.
- Delivers effective skilled, case management including care co-ordination, care planning and treatment for complex patients.
- Identify risks to service delivery and problem solve to ensure resources are allocated across the team/ teams to appropriately prioritise care
- Ensure clinical research is conducted in line with Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust protocols and in liaison with the research team, ensuring that the research has had ethical approval.
- Ensure that patients receive the information they need and are treated with dignity and respect for their privacy.
- Carry out risk assessments and adhere to safe systems of work. This includes understanding and adhering to the reporting procedures for clinical and nonclinical incidents/near misses. Employees must attend relevant courses and mandatory updates, take a pro-active role in contributing to risk identification and management and be responsive to lessons learned from incidents and near misses.
- Reports clinical and non-clinical incidents and proactively manages risk to patients including vulnerable adults and staff.
- Supports, monitors and challenges caseload management processes to ensure quality, safe and effective care delivery.
- To promote an environment conducive to effective learning and to comply with statutory and mandatory responsibilities in line with current local and National monitoring requirements
See the job description and job specification for further information.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive Clinical Experience- Case Management
- Evidence of up-to-date knowledge and skills, particularly in long term condition management
- Evidence of ability to maintain/monitor high standards of care
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Clinical leadership experience at a senior level
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to analyse Complex Situations and Problem solve as nescessary
- Evidence of Ability to identify and Manage Risk
- Evidence of Knowledge and Experience of Team Dynamics and Leadership Role
- Evidence of ability to work in a MD Team
- Evidence of embracing and implementing change to provide high quality Health Care
- Ability to work in a flexible way and respond positively to change
- Ability to work autonomously
- Understanding of Clinical Governance
- Understanding of National and Local Policy
- Acknowledges limitations to own practice
- Awareness of own development needs
- Evidence of Managing Long Term and Chronic Conditions
- Evidence of Complex Case Management
- Evidence of Compassionate Leadership
- Awareness of Resilience
Othe Requirements
Essential criteria
- Car Driver with access to car for work purposes, unless under the Equality Act for reasonable adjustments
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified RN
- Post graduate level degree or equivalent
- Advanced Physical Assessment course Masters Module
- Non-Medical Prescriber or willing to work towards Masters qualification
- Practice assessor Community specialist practice qualification (District Nurse) or equivalent qualification
- Public Health Module or willing to work towards
- Leadership Qualification or HR Leadership sessions
Desirable criteria
- Mentoring Course or equivalent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Hodder
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07798 580615
- Additional information
Informal discussion or visits welcome, please contact Laura Hodder on 07798 580615 or email [email protected]
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