Clinical Lead Nurse

Job summary
Shape and lead the delivery of high-quality community care, ensuring patients receive safe, effective, and person-centred support close to home. As a Clinical Lead Nurse, you will work closely with the Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) Operational Manager to drive the delivery of integrated, high-quality services across the neighbourhood team. Providing visible clinical leadership, you will support the effective coordination of care, foster collaborative working across professional groups, and ensure the team consistently delivers excellent patient outcomes. You will play a key role in overseeing clinical practice, supporting colleagues, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring services are delivered in line with organisational objectives, professional standards, and best practice. Working alongside multidisciplinary partners, you will help shape and develop services that meet the evolving needs of local communities while maintaining a strong focus on quality, safety, and patient experience. The post holder will provide professional support, guidance, and leadership to nursing and wider clinical staff, championing evidence-based practice, service innovation, and workforce development.

Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Lead Nurse, you will work closely with the Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) Operational Manager to drive the delivery of integrated, high-quality services. Providing visible clinical leadership, you will support effective coordination of care, foster collaboration across professional groups, and ensure excellent patient outcomes. You will oversee clinical practice, support colleagues, and promote continuous improvement, ensuring services align with organisational objectives and best practice. The role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary partners to develop local services with a focus on quality and safety. You will provide professional support and leadership to nursing and clinical staff, championing evidence-based practice and workforce development initiatives to achieve key objectives and deliver coordinated care.

About us
HCRG Care Group is dedicated to transforming health and care, established in 2006 as one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. They work with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services, focusing on improved patient experience, efficiency, and outcomes. HCRG Care Group delivers a broad range of services, including adult and children community health services, primary care, urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, musculoskeletal services, and adult social care and wellbeing services. Committed to equal opportunities, the organization welcomes diverse applications and emphasizes the importance of safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults in their practices, ensuring a safer recruitment process.

Job responsibilities
Package Description:
Shape and lead the delivery of high-quality community care, ensuring patients receive safe, effective, and person-centred support close to home.
As a Clinical Lead Nurse, you will work closely with the Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) Operational Manager to drive the delivery of integrated, high-quality services across the neighbourhood team. Providing visible clinical leadership, you will support the effective coordination of care, foster collaborative working across professional groups, and ensure the team consistently delivers excellent patient outcomes.

You will play a key role in overseeing clinical practice, supporting colleagues, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring services are delivered in line with organisational objectives, professional standards, and best practice. Working alongside multidisciplinary partners, you will help shape and develop services that meet the evolving needs of local communities while maintaining a strong focus on quality, safety, and patient experience.

The post holder will provide professional support, guidance, and leadership to nursing and wider clinical staff, championing evidence-based practice, service innovation, and workforce development. You will contribute to operational performance, service improvement initiatives, and the achievement of key objectives, ensuring the Integrated Neighbourhood Team delivers responsive, proactive, and coordinated care to the population it serves.

Location: The Hollies, High Street, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2DP
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Package Description
As a Clinical Lead Nurse you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £49,387 - £56,515 FTE (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 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 life's 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 you're 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 the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Key Responsibilities

• Provide visible clinical leadership and operational oversight for the Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT), ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality patient care, with a particular focus on nursing services.
• Work in partnership with commissioners, GPs, social care, acute providers, and voluntary sector partners to support integrated care pathways and facilitate timely patient flow across primary, community, intermediate, and secondary care services.
• Lead service improvement and transformation initiatives, using performance data, workforce intelligence, and patient feedback to drive quality, productivity, and achievement of key performance indicators.
• Manage team resources effectively, including workforce, capacity, and budgets, ensuring services meet patient needs while delivering agreed operational, quality, and financial objectives.
• Provide expert clinical guidance and support to staff, maintaining clinical credibility and contributing to the assessment, case management, and care planning of patients with complex health and social care needs.
• Promote a culture of clinical excellence, governance, and continuous improvement by supporting incident investigations, sharing learning, managing risk, safeguarding vulnerable adults, and ensuring compliance with policies and best practice standards.
• Develop, motivate, and support the workforce through effective leadership, performance management, appraisals, workforce planning, and the identification of learning and development opportunities.
• Work collaboratively with the INT Operational Manager and wider system partners to contribute to strategic planning, service development, policy implementation, and the delivery of key organisational objectives.
• Champion person-centred care by empowering patients and carers to make informed decisions, supporting choice and independence, and ensuring care is coordinated across the entire patient pathway to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Person Specification
Essential Criteria

• Current professional registration with the relevant regulatory body (NMC or HCPC) and evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Educated to postgraduate level, or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Management qualification, or willingness to work towards one.
• Significant leadership experience within community or integrated healthcare services, including service improvement and transformation.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, develop effective stakeholder relationships, and deliver patient-focused outcomes.
• Experience of operational, workforce, performance, and resource management, including HR processes and change management.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance, risk management, patient safety, safeguarding, and incident investigation.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and decision-making skills, with the ability to work effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities.
• Sound knowledge of current healthcare policy, community services, and integrated models of care.
• Confident, resilient, and credible leader with a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care and supporting team development.
• IT literate with a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

Desirable Criteria

• Leadership or advanced management qualification.
• Experience leading projects, service redesign, or transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of financial and budget management.
• High level of emotional intelligence with excellent networking and relationship-building skills.
• Experience preparing and delivering presentations to a range of audiences.

For full details of the role, responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the attached Job Description.

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's 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.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're 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 doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Current professional registration with the relevant regulatory body (NMC or HCPC) and evidence of ongoing professional development. Educated to postgraduate level, or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge and experience.

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: HCRG Care Group
Address: HCRG Care Group, Bath, BA3 2DT, United Kingdom
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Recruitment Team
HCRG Care Group
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Details
Date posted: 20 August 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 1539804244
Job locations: HCRG Care Group, Bath, BA3 2DT, United Kingdom

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