Job summary
Excellent care at the heart of the community.
Step into a leadership role at the forefront of digital healthcare. As the Lead Nurse for our Remote Monitoring Hub, you'll shape a service that supports patients at home, prevents unnecessary hospital admissions, and delivers compassionate care through cutting-edge virtual solutions.
Please note the banding for this role is indicative whilst it goes through job evaluation.
About the Role
This is a strategic and operational leadership role where you'll manage a team that coordinate care pathways, and drive service excellence across Sussex. You'll work closely with clinicians, and senior leaders to ensure the Remote Monitoring Hub delivers high-quality, patient-centred care.
Although the patient monitoring is remote, the hub will be based at Crawley Hospital, where the team will be responsible for the monitoring of patients across Sussex.
The Remote Monitoring Hub Operational Service hours are 08:00hrs-20:00hrs, Monday to Sunday, 365 days of the year.
Why Join Us?
- Rated "Good" with Outstanding Features- CQC
- Flexible working- job sharing, career breaks, parental leave
- Real Living Wage Employer
- Inclusive culture- thriving staff networks (BAME, LGBT+, Disability)
- Stunning Sussex locations- South Downs & coastal communities
- Workplace nurseries & wellbeing support
- Career development - leadership pathways, CPD, mentorship
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading and managing the Remote Monitoring Hub team
- Overseeing triage, care coordination, and service delivery
- Supporting clinical governance, staff development, and wellbeing
- Driving innovation and transformation in urgent and community care
- Collaborating with strategic partners to reduce health inequalities
What We're Looking For
We're seeking a dynamicRegistered Nursewith:
- Significant experience in clinical triage and staff management
- Strong leadership and operational skills
- Knowledge of long-term conditions, urgent and palliative care
- Excellent communication, documentation, and IT skills
- A commitment to continuous improvement and inclusive leadership
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staffo Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for further details regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for further details regarding this role.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of local and national policies relevant to clinical area
- Knowledge of clinical and operational governance and its application to services.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
Desirable
- Ability to deal with a wide range of people at all levels including clients, carers, therapists, health and social care colleagues and other professionals
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor's degree in a health, social care or related area of study or relevant experience. Relevant to the clinical areas within the portfolio
- Evidence of post registration experience
- Postgraduate qualification in leadership/ management or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of clinical triage
- Significant experience of staff management, including recruitment and retention of staff, performance management, and managing sickness absence, and misconduct.
- Experience of managing staff including appraisal and personal development planning.
- Experience of partnership working with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory service providers.
- Understanding of multi-disciplinary working in the care of adults
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of local and national policies relevant to clinical area
- Knowledge of clinical and operational governance and its application to services.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
Desirable
- Ability to deal with a wide range of people at all levels including clients, carers, therapists, health and social care colleagues and other professionals
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor's degree in a health, social care or related area of study or relevant experience. Relevant to the clinical areas within the portfolio
- Evidence of post registration experience
- Postgraduate qualification in leadership/ management or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of clinical triage
- Significant experience of staff management, including recruitment and retention of staff, performance management, and managing sickness absence, and misconduct.
- Experience of managing staff including appraisal and personal development planning.
- Experience of partnership working with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory service providers.
- Understanding of multi-disciplinary working in the care of adults
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
