Clinical Lead Community Nursing | Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Band 6 Registered Nurse for the Hospital at Home service in Ellesmere Port. This permanent position involves delivering urgent community response and virtual ward care. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and possess excellent communication skills. Join a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing high-quality, person-centred care to patients in their own homes. This role offers a part-time schedule of 30 hours per week and is crucial for supporting community health services.

Benefits

Compassionate, person-centred approach

Inclusive recruitment practices

Guaranteed Interview Scheme for armed forces community

Qualifications

• Must provide confident support and leadership to clients and clinicians.
• Experience in urgent community response and virtual ward care is beneficial.
• Commitment to person-centred care.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and clinical input for a designated clinical caseload.
• Collaborate with health, social care, and third sector partners.
• Ensure timely and appropriate patient care.

Skills

Enthusiastic

Self-motivated

Excellent communication skills

Ability to safeguard individuals

Job description

Band 6 Registered Nurse – Hospital at Home

We are looking to recruit a Band 6 Registered Nurse for the Hospital at Home service, providing urgent community response and virtual ward care to West Cheshire residents in their own home. You will be joining a multidisciplinary team including GP, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, nurses, therapists, pharmacists and clerical officers.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, self‑motivated and provides confident support and leadership and coaching to clients and clinicians. You must have excellent communication skills and the ability to work in partnership with clients and their families/carers and, when necessary, act to safeguard individuals who are at risk from harm and abuse.

This is a permanent post working 30 hours per week across a 7‑day service, between 8am and 8pm.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide a highly visible clinical profile with leadership and clinical input for a designated clinical caseload.
• Work collaboratively with the wider health, social care and third sector partner agencies to meet the needs of patients.
• Ensure patients receive the right care, by the right person at the right time and the right place.
• Place the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, with minimal avoidable delays, and an emphasis on people achieving independence whilst improving quality of care.
• Provide direction within the caseload in consideration of the impact of current health and social care agendas and local initiatives.
• Be aware of local public health community profiles and how this influences the required care for the population.
• Focus on the delivery of person‑centred care.
• Provide effective, evidence‑based care to a defined population through caseload management and monitoring of care standards.
• Provide clinical leadership, coaching and development of the clinical team, where appropriate.

About the Partnership

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all‑age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire. We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport. Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person‑centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

We hold a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for armed forces community applicants. If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, please answer 'YES' to the question: 'Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?'.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon!

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Dec 2025.