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Clinical Lead
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday)
Job ref
468-HWE472-A
Employer
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Various Sites
Town
Welwyn Garden City
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 per annum plus fringe allowance
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/11/2025 23:59
Interview date
18/11/2025

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Clinical Lead

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

Herts & West Essex Integrated Care Board (HWE ICB) is looking for an experienced Nurse who has specialised knowledge and experience of working with individuals with complex care needs. You will have worked in either a specialised or community setting with experience of the Continuing Healthcare process.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for validating applications received from a variety of practitioners recommending people for Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care and act as a link person for continuing care service users and carers.

The post holder will be the case manager for people who are within the All Age Continuing Care [AACC] caseload and will provide professional advice to patients, carers and multi-agency colleagues.

The role will require a high level of communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work supportively and effectively with individuals and their families ensuring that they are fully involved throughout the process.

If you have the energy, enthusiasm, values and drive that are required for this post we invite you to apply.

Working for our organisation

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.  

The ICB’s role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

 It’s an exciting time for us and we’re looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

 So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.

The position is based at our Welwyn Garden City site.  Travel to other offices located at Hemel Hempstead and Harlow may also be required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse (Adult or Mental Health) – with current registration
  • Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
  • Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in the NHS/public body
  • Evidence of working knowledge of CHC
  • Excellent understanding of the current issues impacting on the NHS, governance, policy and an experience of its implications so as to interpret and communicate them locally
  • Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
  • Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
  • Experience of managing risks and reporting

Communication Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
  • Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders

Analytical

Essential criteria
  • Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
  • Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making

Planning Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.

Autonomy

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Melanie Sutton
Job title
Locality Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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