Clinical Team Lead- Home Visiting Service

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Clinical Team Lead Paramedic will:

Provide line management, senior clinical leadership, mentoring, and support to Paramedics and Coordinators within the HVS team.

Offer clinical oversight and advice to support safe triage, assessment, and decision-making.

Collaborate with the and Clinical Educational Lead to ensure clinical quality, governance and continuous service improvement.

Promote professional development within the Paramedic team, leading on clinical learning, audit, and best practice.

Contribute to strategic service development and innovation across the Sutton PCNs in partnership with Clinical Directors/ Board Directors of Sutton PCNs.

Clinical Leadership and Support

Provide line management and clinical guidance to Home Visiting Service clinicians, supporting complex decision-making and patient management.

Support coordinators and clinicians with clinical triage and referrals, ensuring appropriate patient selection and escalation.

Provide triage cover when required to maintain service continuity.

Review and appropriately challenge referrals made outside the HVS inclusion criteria, ensuring safe, appropriate patient pathways.

Offer advice and support to coordinators when uncertain about accepting referrals. Provide case-based learning and feedback following complex cases, incidents or audit findings.

Support the integration of clinical governance principles into daily practice.

Participate in and lead clinical audits to ensure safety, quality and effectiveness of the HVS.

Provide clinical supervision and mentoring for both substantive and locum clinicians.

Identify training needs and develop learning events to support professional development across the team. Collaboration and Teamworking

Work closely with the and Clinical Operations Lead to align clinical delivery with operational processes.

Contribute clinical expertise to service development, quality assurance, and performance monitoring.

Support the Proactive care team by undertaking assessments of individuals referred to the service as required and develop care plans with the patients/family / carers as appropriate

Ensure Universal care Plans are completed and uploaded for these individuals

Support the with implementation of clinical governance frameworks and protocols

Collaborate with Clinical Directors, Practice Leads, and ARRS roles to support integrated care delivery.

Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, promoting collaboration and shared learning.

Liaise effectively with GPs, community teams, urgent care providers, and social care partners to ensure seamless patient care.

Clinical Practice

Assess, diagnose, and manage patients at home or in primary care settings, using advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.

Provide continuity of care through follow-up and safety-netting where required.

Prescribe or recommend medication where appropriate and within scope of practice.

Contribute to reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and improving patient outcomes.

Maintain high-quality clinical documentation and data integrity. Administrative and Governance Support

Line manage the Home Visiting Service Clinical team.

Oversee completion and accuracy of end-of-day timesheets, task lists, and activity reporting.

Support clinical audit, data collection, and reporting requirements..

Contribute to service reviews, quality improvement projects, and CQC readiness.

Uphold information governance, confidentiality, and data protection standards.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-registration experience at least 5 years in primary, urgent, or community care.

Desirable

• Experience working within a Primary Care Network or multi-professional team.
• Experience supporting service transformation or clinical innovation.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered healthcare professional with current UK registration (e.g.
• NMC, HCPC, or equivalent).
• Significant post-registration experience (normally 5 years or more) in
• primary care, urgent care, community care, or a relevant setting.
• Experience of clinical leadership and line management
• Demonstrated ability to practise autonomously and manage complex
• clinical presentations.
• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Sound understanding of clinical governance, audit, and quality
• improvement.
• Ability to work across sites, including undertaking home visits.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicl

Desirable

• Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or working towards one.
• Independent prescribing qualification (or working towards).
• Experience working within a Primary Care Network or multidisciplinary
• team.
• Experience supporting service development, transformation, or
• innovation.
• Understanding of population health management and integrated care
• models.

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

Sutton Primary Care Networks

Address

Thomas Wall Centre

52 Benhill Avenue

Sutton

Surrey

SM1 4DP

Employer's website

https://www.suttonpcns.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)