Clinical Lead

Provide Community (Provide Cic); Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Provide is recruiting for a Clinical Lead in Chelmsford to head the Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT). You will supervise nursing/paramedic staff, perform advanced clinical duties, and guide the team in delivering rapid home-based assessments and interventions to prevent hospital admissions.

The role requires an experienced Band 7 nurse/paramedic with HCPC registration, strong leadership, and excellent communication within a wide multi-agency network in the Essex area.

Qualifications

• NMC Pin/HCPC registration is required.
• Qualification in consultation and assessment is expected.
• Minimum 3 years experience at band 6 level.
• Managerial experience within clinical teams is preferred.
• Strong communication skills across multidisciplinary teams are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior clinical leadership within the UCRT.
• Undertake clinical duties and nursing procedures.
• Support the team to manage complex patients at home.
• Ensure rapid assessment and timely, coordinated care to prevent hospital admission.

Skills

NMC Pin/HCPC registration

Consultation and assessment

Band 6 experience

Managerial experience

Good communication

Job description

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic and compassionate Adult Registered Nurse or Paramedic looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference? Join our Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT) and help deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in the community, supporting people to remain safely in their own homes and avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions. We are looking for a proactive, supportive band 7 nurse/paramedic with proven clinical leadership and decision‑making skills.

UCRT is a 7‑day service providing rapid assessment and treatment for patients experiencing a health crisis in their own homes, including nursing and residential care homes. Working closely with partners across Mid and South Essex--including ambulance services, acute hospitals, GPs, social care, community services and the voluntary sector--we provide holistic assessments within two hours of referral and deliver timely, coordinated care.

As a clinical lead you will be expected to provide senior clinical leadership within the URCT team and undertake a range of clinical duties and nursing procedures along with supporting the team to manage more complex patients within their own home.

You will need to demonstrate expert knowledge surrounding community care and a commitment to provide high quality, safe and effective care for patients requiring rapid nursing intervention within their own home to prevent hospital admission.

Main duties of the job

To improve outcomes for people with frailty and complex co‑morbidities and reduce the need for these people to attend or be admitted into hospital.

• Working with partners to ensure effective systems are in place to make best use of services/facilities, aiming to reduce unnecessary admissions, reducing the length of stay in inpatient facilities and more efficient use of community services.


• Communicating and advocating across areas of clinical responsibility to ensure effective and personalised care is delivered for patients.


• Organising and managing your own time, allocating/delegating tasks appropriately, in order to achieve service goals.


• Performing comprehensive, specialist, holistic assessment for the individual patients meeting the service criteria. This will include physical examination and exploration of mental state and any cognitive deficits.

About us

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people's homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men's Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups.

Details

Date posted: 11 September 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 828-PROVIDE4277

Job locations: Kestrel House, Hedgerows Business Park, Colchester Road, Chelmsford, CM2 5PF, United Kingdom

Person Specification

Essential

• NMc Pin/HCPC registration


• consultation and assessment qualification


• 3 years experience as a band 6


• managerial experience


• Good communication Skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men's Networks.

Clinical Lead • Chelmsford, United Kingdom