Cluster Lead Nurse

Change Grow Live; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday entitlements

Flexible working

Wellness hours

Pension scheme

Training & progression

Cycle to Work

Staff discounts

Eye test vouchers

Job summary

Change Grow Live in Birmingham is seeking a Cluster Lead Nurse for a fully on-site role. You will provide clinical leadership across substance misuse services and guide the nursing team to deliver safe, recovery-focused care.

Essential requirements include Registered Nurse status, leadership experience, and safeguarding knowledge. The role emphasises collaboration with doctors, psychiatrists and recovery staff in a busy community setting.

Qualifications

• This role requires strong clinical leadership and governance oversight within substance misuse services.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams is essential.
• Proven ability to motivate and develop nursing staff across sites.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible clinical leadership across substance misuse services.
• Lead the nursing workforce and work with operational managers to improve care quality.
• Deliver evidence-based nursing interventions for drug and alcohol users.
• Ensure compliance with NMC standards and governance requirements.
• Support medicines management, prescribing governance and risk management.
• Lead safeguarding practices for adults and children.
• Monitor clinical performance, audits and quality improvement initiatives.
• Coach and supervise nursing staff through appraisal and training.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team development

Clinical governance

Education

Registered Nurse (NMC)

Job description

Overview

Believe in people?

The best people have one thing in common.

They care.

At Change Grow Live, we’re more than just a substance misuse charity, we’re a community driven by our core values: Be Open, Be Compassionate, Be Bold. We believe in the power of transformation, and we’re looking for a Cluster Lead Nurse to join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team in Birmingham.

If you're ready to inspire change, this is the place for you.

Why work with us?

Are you seeking a role where every day brings new challenges and opportunities? At Change Grow Live, we embrace a whole-person approach to care, treating each person accessing treatment with us as a unique individual on their recovery journey. Our team thrives on collaboration, bringing together service managers, consultant psychiatrists, dedicated healthcare professionals, compassionate nurses, empathetic recovery staff, enthusiastic volunteers, and supportive peer mentors.

This is an excellent opportunity for an energetic and passionate Cluster Lead Nurse to help shape our vision in how we provide clinical services to individuals whose lives have been affected by drugs and alcohol.

Where: Birmingham (This is a fully on-site position. Remote or hybrid working arrangements are not available for this role.)

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

As a Cluster Lead Nurse, you will provide visible clinical leadership across substance misuse services, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and recovery-focused nursing care. You will lead the nursing workforce while working closely with operational managers and the multidisciplinary team to continuously improve clinical quality and patient outcomes.

Your role includes:

• Lead and develop a team of registered nurses and healthcare assistants.
• Provide professional nursing leadership across the cluster.
• Deliver high-quality evidence-based clinical interventions for people experiencing drug and alcohol problems.
• Ensure compliance with NMC standards, clinical governance requirements and organisational policies.
• Support medicines management, prescribing governance and clinical risk management.
• Lead safeguarding practice for adults and children.
• Monitor clinical performance, audits and quality improvement initiatives.
• Coach, supervise and develop nursing staff through appraisal, supervision and training.
• Work collaboratively with Service Managers, Consultant Psychiatrists, Doctors, Non-Medical Prescribers (NMPs) and Recovery Teams.
• Promote integrated working with primary care, hospitals, mental health services and partner agencies.

About you:

• Strong clinical credibility
• Inspirational leadership
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to motivate and develop teams
• Innovation and continuous improvement
• Compassionate, person-centred practice
• Flexibility within a busy community service
• Commitment to high standards of clinical governance

Essential requirements included:

• Registered Nurse (NMC)
• Experience within drug and alcohol services or related fields
• Leadership and management experience
• Knowledge of safeguarding legislation
• Clinical assessment and risk management skills
• Experience supervising and developing staff
• Ability to work across multiple sites
• Excellent organisational and partnership-working skills

We want to support you to recognise and achieve your goals:

• We hold regular national nurse and HCA forums, and you will have regular 1:1s and appraisals
• We actively support our nurses with revalidation with protected continuing professional development time
• We also have a wide range of educational opportunities including free access to the RCNi learning platform and we reimburse your NMC fee
• All our team members are encouraged to take a wellbeing hour every week and access personal well -being resources
• Our nursing pay is competitive with the NHS Agenda for Change pay bands

What we offer you:

• Generous holiday entitlement (+ bank holidays), increasing annually for first five years’ service
• Flexible working arrangements
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week, plus access to our Wellness Hub and Employee Assistance Program
• Contributory pension scheme
• Discounts on shopping, cinema, holidays, and more
• A friendly and supportive team environment
• Free eye test vouchers
• Extensive training, career development, and progression opportunities
• Cycle to Work and generous Refer a Friend Scheme

As part of our commitment to patient safety and professional standards, all nurses are required to wear the designated company uniform while on duty. This ensures a consistent, hygienic, and professional appearance in line with our healthcare protocols

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL points 45 to 47 (£51,199.03 - £53,526.89)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

Closing Date

20/9/2026

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.