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Clinical Lead (Nurse) HomeFirst Chichester

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Profession
Nurse (adult and children)
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
25 Aug 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
14 Jul 2025

Job overview

Are you looking for a role where every day brings new challenges and the opportunity to change the lives of people in Sussex? Now is the perfect time to be part of our evolving Home First Service.

We’re bringing together nurses, therapists, health and therapy assistants to work alongside acute multi-disciplinary teams and transfer of care hubs to promote an efficient, effective hospital-to-home transition for our patients.

Our multi-disciplinary Home First teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm.

Patients who are discharged from hospital into Home First will be receiving step-down intermediate care, involving community-based assessments and interventions provided in their own home to support recovery and monitoring of their health in the early days post discharge to prevent re-admission.

Home First will, where required, provide acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.

This is more that just a job- it’s a chance to be part of an innovative wrap around recovery service that helps people recover at home and regain their independence, giving them the confidence to get back to daily life.

Main duties of the job

The focus of this role is providing safe, effective, and quality senior clinical care, along with strong clinical leadership, advice, and support to the team.

You will use your comprehensive knowledge and champion excellence in practice in a dynamic healthcare environment. Your specialist clinical assessment skills will support patients with complex needs in addition to providing clinical advice and support to colleagues.

Working with the operational leads you will ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and the delivery of an excellent patient experience. You will also be part of the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. Central to this is supporting the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff supporting each other and learning together.

Your experience of working across a variety of clinical settings and working autonomously will help you excel in this role.  We will support you to develop specialist areas of practice and your leadership skills through internal and external programmes.

In this role you will be responsible for staff management, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and the performance development reviews of members of the team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence and access to a vehicle due to the geographic area covered by the team.

Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.