Clinical Lead Community Nursing

We are looking to recruit a Clinical Lead to join Chester South Community Care Team in the Chester area. You will be joining a multidisciplinary team including but not limited to; team manager, enhanced clinical practitioner, clinical leads, community nurses, AHP's and many other specialist professionals who visit the team.
We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, self-motivated and who provides confident support and leadership and coaching to clients and clinicians. You must excellent communication skills and an ability to work in partnership with clients and their families/carers and when necessary, act to safeguard individuals who are at risk from harm and abuse.
This role is Fixed term until 28/06/2026.
- Provide a highly visible clinical profile with leadership and clinical oversight of a designated Care Community caseload
- Working collaboratively with the wider health, social care and the third sector partner agencies to meet the needs of patients
- Ensure patients receive the right care, by the right person at the right time and the right place
- Placing the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, with mínimal avoidable delays, and an emphasis on people achieving independence whilst improving quality of care
- To provide direction within the caseload in consideration of the impact of current health and social care agendas and local initiatives
- To be aware of local public health community profiles and how this influences the required care for the population
- According to community profiles: understand the skills required from the Community Care Team
- To focus on the delivery of person centred care
- To provide effective, evidence based care to a defined population through case load management and monitoring of care standards
- Provide clinical leadership, coaching and development of the clinical team.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.
We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.
Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.
We also offer up to three weeks’ induction, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you hit the ground running with CWP.
Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.
Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.
At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’
Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.