Job overview

Are you an inspiring clinical leader with a passion for delivering exceptional community nursing care?

We are looking for a motivated and forward-thinking Clinical Lead to join our Adult Community Nursing service, providing visible leadership and driving service excellence across the Guildford and Waverley.

As Clinical Lead, you will be responsible for delivering a safe, high-quality and efficient community nursing service within a defined locality. You will provide strategic, operational, and clinical leadership to District Nursing teams and locality-based services, ensuring care is responsive to the needs of our patients, carers, and local population.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape and influence community nursing, working at the heart of integrated neighbourhood teams and collaborating closely with GPs, Social Care, Mental Health, and other professional partners. You will be part of our senior leadership team, championing innovation, driving service transformation, and ensuring high standards of care, governance, and workforce development.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of the senior leadership team with direct responsibility for East Waverley District Nursing, District Nursing Unscheduled Care, Phlebotomy and  Night Response. Working with service lines Operational Team Leads, District Nurse and the SLT to ensure service delivery across Guildford and Waverley, 7 days a week. 

Key Responsibilities

•    Lead the delivery of safe, evidence-based and high-quality community nursing services.
•    Ensure seamless patient pathways from referral to discharge, promoting dignity, involvement, and person-centred care.
•    Chair monthly locality meetings and drive service improvement, quality monitoring, and KPI performance.

•    Work clinically for 20% of the week to maintain competence and visibility in practice.

•    Line manage Band 7 District Nurses and Operational Team Leads, including Night Response
•    Line manage District Nursing Urgent Community Response team and phlebotomy.
•    Oversee workforce planning, off-duty management, training compliance, sickness absence, and recruitment for defined locality and portfolio.
•    Manage locality budgets, contribute to cost improvement plans, and ensure equitable use of resources.

Working for our organisation

The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.

With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.

We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.