Clinical Team Leader – Specialist School Nursing Team

HCRG Care Group; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and care service provider in the UK seeks a motivated Clinical Team Leader for their Specialist School Nursing Team. This role involves managing clinical operations, ensuring high-quality and responsive care for children with complex needs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership skills and a commitment to clinical governance. Benefits include a competitive salary, NHS Pension, and opportunities for professional development, alongside a flexible working environment.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to My Reward Hub for discounts

Online mental health support

Access to career coaching

Continuing professional development opportunities

Innovation funding

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Children’s, LD, or Adult); mentorship qualification.
• Evidence of CPD; clinical audit and service development experience.
• Strong understanding of community health services.

Responsibilities

• Lead day‑to‑day clinical and operational management.
• Provide safeguarding advice and guidance.
• Champion evidence‑based practice and clinical governance.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

Flexibility

Judgement

Education

Registered Nurse qualifications

Management/leadership qualification

Mentorship qualification (ENB 998 or equivalent)

Job description

Clinical Team Leader – Specialist School Nursing Team

We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and forward‑thinking Clinical Team Leader to join our Specialist School Nursing Service. As a Clinical Team Leader, you will hold continuing responsibility for the day‑to‑day clinical and operational management of the service across designated special schools, ensuring high‑quality, safe, and responsive care for children and young people with diverse and complex needs.

You will lead and support a team of skilled practitioners, overseeing the delivery of both clinical and non‑clinical interventions within the school environment.

Working in partnership with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding, you will also provide safeguarding advice and guidance, maintaining strong professional standards and ensuring compliance with NMC Codes, national policy, and Children and Family Health Surrey (CFHS) procedures.

A key part of this role is championing evidence‑based practice and embedding the principles of clinical governance to deliver an equitable, effective, and efficient service. You will promote the involvement of children, young people, and their families in shaping service development, while fostering excellent working relationships with colleagues across Education, Health, and Social Care.

Flexibility is central to how we work: while an office base will be provided, HCRG Care Group operates a flexible‑first approach, supporting agile and hybrid working to meet the needs of both staff and the communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

Lead day‑to‑day clinical and operational management of the Special School Nursing Service, ensuring high‑quality, evidence‑based care.

Communicate effectively with families, staff, and multi‑agency partners, providing professional advice on clinical governance, safeguarding, and quality standards.

Analyse service data, investigate incidents, and use professional judgment to drive continuous improvement.

Provide clinical leadership, supporting a skilled workforce through supervision, appraisals, training, recruitment, and performance management.

Ensure compliance with health, safety, safeguarding, equality, and data protection standards.

Develop and implement policies, contribute to audits and service redesign, and promote user involvement.

Maintain a clinical caseload, offering expert guidance in complex care and emergency situations.

Manage delegated budgets, resources, and specialist equipment effectively.

Lead service planning, innovation, and integration with education and social care partners.

Support team development, workload allocation, and ongoing workforce planning.

About us

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 are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident – Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the date shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you, so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Band 7 Clinical Team Leader you will be part of our valued team in our Specialist School Nursing Team, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 7 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases such as grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you are encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Ideal Candidate

• Qualifications: Registered Nurse (Children’s, LD, or Adult); mentorship qualification (ENB 998 or equivalent); clinical supervision facilitator; Master’s degree or equivalent experience; management/leadership qualification.
• Professional Experience: Experienced specialist practitioner; staff and service management; evidence of CPD; clinical audit and service development experience.
• Knowledge & Skills: Strong understanding of community health services, nursing workforce issues, health & safety, and risk management.
• Broad clinical skills, team leadership, effective workload management, and ability to prioritise and delegate.
• Communication & IT: Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication; computer literate.
• Personal Attributes: Judgement, resilience under pressure, flexibility, reliability, assertiveness, innovation, and commitment.
• Other Requirements: Ability to travel within the county; ability to work across professional boundaries; occasional moderate physical effort.
• Qualification in clinical audit and/or clinical research.
• Child protection supervisor.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience gained by undertaking ongoing personal development and training.
• Ability to interpret and illustrate data.
• Experience of involvement in clinical practice development / guideline development.
• Experience of undertaking clinical research.

Other requirements: Have a valid UK driving licence & access to a car insured for business use.

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.