South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Lead - Community Nursing

The closing date is 02 December 2025

Job summary

B7 Clinical Lead for Hambleton & Richmondshire

Are you interested in leadership and are you a dynamic individual looking for a new challenge in an environment that is undergoing a major change programme?

If you are,South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity of a clinical lead post within Clinical Service Unit 10 - Community and Neighbourhood Health services coveringHambleton & Richmondshire locality.

We are undergoing a significant programme of radical transformation within community services, and we have a great opportunity for a clinical lead to provide leadership to the teams within your area of responsibility, working collaboratively with the Clinical Matron and General Manager.

You will provide assurance of safety, quality and the overall patient experience as well as ensuring the effective day to day management of nursing in your area to deliver key quality, performance, and financial plans, to achieve service and standards improvements.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training; programmes have been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will hold 24 hour responsibility for the clinical area with support from theClinical Matron and General Manager. They will ensure that they lead and clinically managethe area so that safe, high quality, evidence based nursing care is delivered to patients whilstrespecting and involving families and carers as partners in care.

This post includes both operational and clinical responsibilities with the post holder spendinga percentage of their working week (10% - 50%) providing visible and hands on clinical careto patients whilst working closely within the attached primary care network (PCN) to lead andprovide coordinated care through integrated teams.

The post holder will have responsibility for leading and managing the community nursingworkforce and will work in conjunction with the senior management team and the PCN tomanage the budget for the area to ensure the best use of resources.

About us

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

o Your Leadership Impacto Leading your Team to Successo Leading Into the Futureo Service Improvement for Beginnerso Developing your Service Improvement Skillso Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust values and behaviourso Develop your leadership effectiveness and skillso Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Date posted

19 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

328-FCS-7610918

Job locations

Friarage Hospital

Northallerton

DL6 1JG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of leading /managing staff within a health /social care operational environment.
Experience of having successfully delivered a significant service improvement / change project which resulted in positive impact.
Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change
Evidence of teaching / training

Qualifications & Training

Essential

Registered as fit to practice by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
To hold a Degree/diploma in relevant field awarded by professional body along with specialist training to masters level
Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development

Desirable

To have completed the specialist practitioner qualification in District Nursing (BSc or PGDip)
To hold Leadership and management qualification
To hold or be working towards MSc or relevant post-graduation qualification

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model
Participate in regular clinical supervision

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of leading /managing staff within a health /social care operational environment.
Experience of having successfully delivered a significant service improvement / change project which resulted in positive impact.
Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change
Evidence of teaching / training

Qualifications & Training

Essential

Registered as fit to practice by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
To hold a Degree/diploma in relevant field awarded by professional body along with specialist training to masters level
Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development

Desirable

To have completed the specialist practitioner qualification in District Nursing (BSc or PGDip)
To hold Leadership and management qualification
To hold or be working towards MSc or relevant post-graduation qualification

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model
Participate in regular clinical supervision

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).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Friarage Hospital

Northallerton

DL6 1JG

Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Friarage Hospital

Northallerton

DL6 1JG

Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)