Clinical Lead

Go back South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Lead - Community Nursing The closing date is 02 December 2025 B7 Clinical Lead for Hambleton & Richmondshire Are you interested in leadership and are you a dynamic individual looking for a new challenge in an environment that is undergoing a major change programme? If you are, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity of a clinical lead post within Clinical Service Unit 10 - Community and Neighbourhood Health services covering Hambleton & Richmondshire locality. We are undergoing a significant programme of radical transformation within community services, and we have a great opportunity for a clinical lead to provide leadership to the teams within your area of responsibility, working collaboratively with the Clinical Matron and General Manager. You will provide assurance of safety, quality and the overall patient experience as well as ensuring the effective day to day management of nursing in your area to deliver key quality, performance, and financial plans, to achieve service and standards improvements. South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training; programmes have been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role. Main duties of the job The post holder will hold 24 hour responsibility for the clinical area with support from the Clinical Matron and General Manager. They will ensure that they lead and clinically manage the area so that safe, high quality, evidence based nursing care is delivered to patients whilst respecting and involving families and carers as partners in care. This post includes both operational and clinical responsibilities with the post holder spending a percentage of their working week (10% - 50%) providing visible and hands on clinical care to patients whilst working closely within the attached primary care network (PCN) to lead and provide coordinated care through integrated teams. The post holder will have responsibility for leading and managing the community nursing workforce and will work in conjunction with the senior management team and the PCN to manage the budget for the area to ensure the best use of resources. About us We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions: Your Leadership Impact on Leading your Team to Success Leading Into the Future Service Improvement for Beginners Developing your Service Improvement Skills Lean Practitioner The leadership and improvement programme aims to: Explore leadership within the NHS Promote Trust values and behaviour Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role. After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team. Job responsibilities Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role. Person Specification Experience Experience of leading /managing staff within a health/social care operational environment. Experience of having successfully delivered a significant service improvement / change project which resulted in positive impact. Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change Evidence of teaching / training Qualifications & Training Registered as fit to practice by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). To hold a Degree/diploma in relevant field awarded by professional body along with specialist training to masters level Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development To have completed the specialist practitioner qualification in District Nursing (BSc or PGDip) To hold Leadership and management qualification To hold or be working towards MSc or relevant post-graduation qualification Knowledge & Skills Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model Participate in regular clinical supervision 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. South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust #J-18808-Ljbffr