Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-MT2319-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Quadrant Unit 7
- Town
- Lancing
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead Nurse
Band 7
Job overview
Adur Community Primary Care Network (PCN) is seeking an experienced and motivated Community Nurse to lead, coordinate, and support our established team in delivering high-quality care to patients who are unable to leave their homes.
Our care model is centred on individual patient needs, achieved through collaborative working across services to provide exceptional care within the community.
This is a rewarding role for a patient-focused professional with strong clinical skills, a proactive attitude, and a commitment to excellence. We cover Adur and the surrounding areas.
If you are passionate about making a difference and want to contribute to an organisation dedicated to continuous improvement, we would love to hear from you.
Car driver essential – please include this in your application.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Lead Nurse – Adur Community PCN
We are seeking an experienced and qualified Community Specialist Practitioner with advanced practice credentials, strong clinical expertise, and proven leadership skills.
In this role, you will coordinate complex care, including the assessment and management of long-term conditions. You will apply case management principles to support patient self-management, promote independent living, and reduce hospital admissions through robust contingency planning.
As Clinical Lead, you will oversee staff management, supervision, and development, including appraisals and mentoring of junior team members. Acting as an educator and preceptor, you will lead the professional development of community nurses and champion self-care strategies for patients through innovative activation approaches.
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
The focus of this role is to provide safe, effective and quality clinical care using advanced qualifications to support clinical practice 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 as well as an ability to reflect upon and where needed challenge the status quo.
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information.
Person specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to analyse complex situations and problem solve as necessary
- Evidence of ability to identify and manage risk
- Evidence of knowledge and experience of team dynamics/leadership role
- Evidence of ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of embracing and implementing change to provide high quality health
- Ability to work in a flexible way and respond positively to change
- Ability to work autonomously and make own decisions
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Understanding of local and National policies
- acknowledges limitations to practice
- Awareness of own development needs
- Evidence of long term condition management
- Evidence of complex case management
- Evidence of compassionate leadership
- Awareness of resilience
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Car driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN first level nurse
- Post graduate level degree or equivalent
- Advanced Physical Assessment course Masters Module
- Non Medical Prescriber or willing to work towards
- Mentoring Course or equivalent / Practice assessor
- Community specialist practice qualification (District Nurse) or equivalent qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Masters qualification
- Public Health Module or willing to work towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Advanced physical assessment
- Independent or supplementary prescribing medication review and administration
- Evidence of ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively
- Able to analyse complex situations and problem solve as necessary.
- Evidence of the ability to identify and manage risk.
- Evidence of knowledge and experience of team dynamics/ leadership role
- Evidence of ability to work with a multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of knowledge and experience of working between acute and Primary Care settings
- Evidence of working in partnership and collaboration with other professionals
- Evidence of effective team leadership and organisational skills
- Evidence of embracing and implementing change to provide high quality health outcomes
- Evidence of the ability to champion patient issues
- Evidence of the ability to work in a changing, stressful situation.
- Ability to appropriately challenge a variety of professionals about an individual’s care.
- Ability to resolve or diffuse conflict
- Evidence of ability to identify training needs of self and team to provide relevant and appropriate experience to all learners
- Evidence of one to one mentoring skills
- Evidence of teaching patients and carers
- Evidence of communication skills
- Assertive and able to negotiate in complex situations.
- IT and ability to use Microsoft suite
- Ability to work in flexible way and respond positively to change.
- Ability to work autonomously and make own decisions
- Demonstrate a high level of understanding of self and able to identify personal limitation and shows openness to address them
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
- Kelly Hargie
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead - Adur Community PCN Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07799 558735
- Additional information
Applicants are welcome to visit the team for an informal visit.
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