Lead Clinical Duty Manager

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in London is seeking a Lead Clinical Duty Manager to join their leadership team. This role requires an experienced nurse leader to oversee hospital operations during out-of-hours, coordinate clinical services, and ensure safe, effective decision-making. Ideal candidates must have strong leadership skills and significant nursing experience, especially at the Senior Staff Nurse level. The position promises impactful work within a renowned facility dedicated to quality care.

Qualifications

• Must have recent clinical experience at Senior Staff Nurse Band 6.
• Evidence of Leadership, Management and Specialty Development.
• Significant post-qualification/registration experience in the nursing field.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and support Duty Managers in emergencies, staffing, and bed utilization.
• Lead team development, performance monitoring, and decision-making consistency.
• Ensure patient safety and quality standards as a clinical leader.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical decision-making

Crisis management

Team development

Coaching

Education

Registered Nurse

First degree or equivalent (Desirable)

Job description

Lead Clinical Duty Manager

Closing date: 12 December 2025.

Apply directly using the following link: https://hje.kallidusrecruit.com/vacancyinformation.aspx?vguid=ab665dbf-a43b-4e4c-86fb-3c57a924b589

Please note, only applications received through the employer's website will be reviewed.

Job summary

Join our leadership team and make a real impact. We’re seeking an experienced nurse leader to head our Duty Manager team, ensuring consistent, safe, and effective decision‑making across hospital operations out of hours. If you’re passionate about clinical leadership, team development, and operational excellence, we’d love to hear from you.

The Lead Clinical Duty Manager provides operational leadership and coordination of hospital services out of hours, ensuring safe, effective, and consistent decision‑making across the Duty Manager team.

This includes: managing and coordinating a wide range for clinical and non‑clinical emergencies, dealing with and addressing a range of clinical and non‑clinical problems, reviewing and ensuring safe staffing levels where required, coordinating admissions, and escalating issues to the senior manager on call.

About us

Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London, our independent private hospital has just been rated the number one in the country for care in the latest Bupa survey. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.

Job responsibilities

• Oversee and support Duty Managers in managing clinical and non‑clinical emergencies, staffing, and bed utilisation.
• Lead on team development, performance monitoring, and professional decision‑making consistency.
• Act as a role model for clinical leadership and governance, ensuring patient safety and quality standards are maintained.
• The post‑holder works closely with Admissions to ensure proactive focus on effective utilisation of hospital beds and provides support for clinical areas as a 08 bleep holder.
• The post holder will coordinate the staff bank and primarily focus on management of requests for cover for nursing shifts with effective utilisation of staffing resource.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Current NMC registration in adult or general nursing
• Evidence of Leadership, Management and Speciality Development
• Significant post‑qualification/registration experience in nursing field
• Must have recent clinical experience at Senior Staff Nurse Band 6
• Experience in facilitation, teaching, assessing, coaching
• Proven experience in leading teams and managing change.
• Strong ability to influence and standardise practice across multiple stakeholders.

Desirable

• Educated to first degree level or equivalent

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.

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth

Address

60 Grove End Road
St John’s Wood
London
NW8 9NH

Employer's website

https://www.hje.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)