Clinical Lead Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Sittingbourne; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

My Reward Hub discounts

Earned wage access

Wellbeing support

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is recruiting a Clinical Lead Nurse to head the Intermediate Care and Reablement Service in Medway. You will lead nursing teams, ensure evidence-based, person-centred care, and support capacity planning across community and bedded pathways.

You’ll drive workforce development, clinical governance and service improvement, working with senior colleagues to shape care delivery and patient outcomes in the Medway region.

Qualifications

• Evidence of leadership or management training and experience in community or intermediate care.
• Experience with clinical governance, safeguarding and quality improvement initiatives.
• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities for multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible clinical leadership across Intermediate Care and Reablement Service.
• Support safe discharge planning and manage patient flow and capacity.
• Contribute to workforce development and quality improvement activities.
• Collaborate with senior therapy colleagues and multidisciplinary partners.

Skills

Leadership training

Clinical governance

Discharge planning

Communication skills

Digital literacy

Education

NMC registration

Nursing degree or equivalent

Job description

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse with a passion for leadership, rehabilitation and delivering outstanding patient care?HCRG Care Group is proud to have been chosen by Medway Council to deliver the Intermediate Care and Reablement Service across the Medway community from 1 October. As we launch this exciting new service, we are looking for a Clinical Lead Nurse to play a pivotal role in supporting both our Home First and Bedded Intermediate Care pathways.This is a unique opportunity to join a service at the very start of its journey and help shape how care is delivered across Medway. Working alongside senior therapy colleagues and multidisciplinary partners, you will provide clinical leadership, support service development and help ensure local people receive high-quality, person-centred care that promotes independence and positive outcomes.

Package Description

You will be joining a supportive, ambitious and multidisciplinary team committed to helping people recover, regain confidence and remain independent following illness or hospital admission. As a senior clinical leader within a newly mobilised service, you will have genuine opportunity to influence how services are developed, support colleagues to thrive and help shape the future delivery of intermediate care and reablement across Medway.

In return, we offer:

• NHS Agenda for Change Band 7 salary with an NHS pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases, plus cashback and voucher offers for treats and essentials
• Access to your wages as you earn them, helping cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest borrowing
• Online and in-person wellbeing support, including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
• Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and professional development opportunities through our ‘Outstanding’ Learning Enterprise team
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to contribute ideas, backed by ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation where the majority of our rated services hold ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities

As Clinical Lead Nurse, you will provide visible clinical leadership across the Intermediate Care and Reablement Service, supporting the delivery of safe, effective and responsive care across both community and bedded rehabilitation pathways. You will act as an expert clinical resource for nursing teams and wider multidisciplinary colleagues, ensuring care remains person-centred, evidence-based and focused on helping individuals achieve greater independence. Working closely with operational and clinical leaders, you will support the day-to-day management of patient flow, capacity planning and service delivery. You will play an important role in facilitating safe discharge planning, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and ensuring people receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time. You will also contribute to workforce development, clinical governance and quality improvement activity across the service. This includes supporting supervision, developing colleagues, maintaining high standards of professional practice and helping drive a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Person Specification

Essential

• Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration
• Degree in Nursing or equivalent qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Leadership or management training, or willingness to undertake
• Significant post-registration experience within community, rehabilitation, intermediate care or integrated care services
• Experience managing patients with complex needs and multiple long-term conditions
• Experience leading, supporting and developing clinical teams
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Experience of clinical governance, safeguarding and quality improvement initiatives
• Experience of discharge planning and community-based care pathways
• Strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Ability to coordinate complex patient journeys and competing priorities
• Good report writing and digital literacy skills
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes

Desirable

• Previous experience within an Intermediate Care or Reablement service
• Experience leading operational service improvements
• Experience working across health and social care partnerships
• Additional leadership, management or quality improvement qualifications
• Knowledge of local health and social care systems and pathways

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.

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.

Questions about the role? Feel free to reach out to Sam on [phone] or [e-mail].