Job Description

Job Introduction

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Clinical Lead Nurse to join our dynamic Sexual Health Team. This role provides visible, supportive leadership within the clinical setting, ensuring high-quality, patient-centred care. You will work closely with the Medical Team, Service Manager, Nurse Manager, and Practice Educator to implement clinical strategies that maintain excellent standards and performance.


As Clinical Lead Nurse, you will lead the nursing and administrative teams, promoting confidence and ensuring the service operates safely, effectively, and productively. You will collaborate with key support functions--including Quality Leads, Medicines Management, and Infection Control--to ensure compliance with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards, conduct Initial Service Reviews, and drive improvement initiatives as needed.


You will act as a clinical role model, supporting staff in providing effective sexual health interventions across clinic and outreach settings. Working alongside the Practice Educator, you will help embed robust clinical procedures and training, ensuring staff access to protected learning time, clinical supervision, and reflective practice.


This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the development of sexual health services and make a meaningful difference in the health and wellbeing of the community.

Interviews to take place 2nd July 2025, 12-2pm

Main Responsibilities

Leadership:

Provides positive clinical leadership by working collaboratively with the Clinical Lead and wider team to promote high standards of patient care Providing direct and indirect clinical care and works cohesively with the Practice Educator to develop and embed teaching and research. Develops and maintains open and robust communication links with a range of professionals, patients and carers regarding issues related to the service including signposting and pathways with other partner agencies and service users

Training and Development:

To work as an expert practitioner working independently within remit and ensures that own practice demonstrates current and relevant clinical knowledge and is accountable for their own practice and developing, maintaining, and utilising specialist skills and knowledge, including completing mandatory/annual training updates. Knowing where to seek clinical support from specific experts as required. To network nationally across other Sexual Health services and professionals for the development of best practice.

Quality and Safety

Supports the Service Manager and works alongside the wider team by ensuring that the team are aware of performance objectives and that there is a consistent management regime to deliver these and promote continuous improvements. Leads on all audits for the service and any actions required , ensuring timely completion and identification of any risks. Work collaboratively with the Nurse Manager to ensure there are clear processes in relation to Patient Experience and Engagement and that learning is shared from complaints and that compliments are captured and shared on datex.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate
Registered General Nurse CPD 326/327 Qualification Independent Nurse Prescriber - or willing to work towards Teaching and mentoring qualification Letter of competency and experience in Implant and IUD/IUC fitting or willing to work towards Completed BASHH "STIF Intermediate Competency" or willing to work towards Demonstrate the application of evidenced based practice. Able to demonstrate a depth and breadth of current issuesand policies within the organisation and have the ability to translate into practice. Autonomous practitioner working independently and inconjunction with other health care professionals. Evidence of teaching/mentoring students / groups Evidence of continued professional development. Experience of Clinical Governance including risk management Able to plan and organise own time and workload and copewith last minute changes. Provide education and training to other staff and students.

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached .

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.


Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.


We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.


While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.


As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.


Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.


Package Description

You will feel valued as a

Band 7 Clinical Lead Nurse

within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Salary of 46,148-52,809 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions

Free tea and coffee at your base location Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least 100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year * The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission