HCRG Care Group

Band 8a Clinical Lead Nurse

The closing date is 13 July 2025

Job summary

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality healthcare in the community? Were excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Clinical Leador a developmental role for an experienced District Nurse or Community Matronto join our senior leadership team within Adult Community Services in Surrey.

As a Clinical Lead, you will provide outstanding professional leadership, with a strong focus on patient safety and the quality of care. You will bring expert knowledge in Community Nursing to support your team, drive forward service improvement, and lead on clinical excellence, research, education, and the advancement of community nursing practice. Your work will align with both local priorities and national healthcare strategies.

Based atFarnham Hospital, this role covers theSurrey Heath locality, and you will be expected to travel across the area as required

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

Lead on the development and implementation of clinical guidelines and policies.
Provide expert clinical advice across services, the local health economy, and, where appropriate, beyond the organisation.
Identify and respond to the health needs of the local population, supporting wider public health strategies and initiatives.
Hold clinical and managerial responsibility for the on-call service within a defined area.
Engage in management supervision, one-to-ones, and coaching to support personal and professional development.
Take responsibility for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of services.
Conduct and participate in research and audits to inform and improve service delivery.
Ensure compliance withCQC standardsand lead on aspects ofclinical governance.
Monitor and evaluate service performance, including working practices, activity levels, demand, and capacity.
Use project management methodologies to lead on service redesign and drive forward strategic change.
Demonstrate strong business acumen, including marketing strategies and an understanding of commissioning processes.
Develop and present robust business cases to support service development and improvement.
Take accountability for financial planning, analysis, and management within the service.

Please refer to the full job description attached for a comprehensive list of responsibilities.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed 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

Date posted

02 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

HCRGCG/TP/1580/16119

Job locations

HCRG Care Group

Farnham

Surrey

GU9 9QL

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will feel valued as aBand 8a Clinical Lead Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

AFC Band 8a salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like 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 lifes 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 youre 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 a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will feel valued as aBand 8a Clinical Lead Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

AFC Band 8a salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like 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 lifes 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 youre 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 a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Person Specification

General Requirements

Essential

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Person Specification

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Desirable

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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.

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Farnham

Surrey

GU9 9QL

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Farnham

Surrey

GU9 9QL

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)