# Clinical Nurse Lead

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Priory Healthcare.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Priory Healthcare
- **Location:** Highbank AC
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Salary:** £46,000 / year
- **Contract type:** Permanent - Full Time
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-30T23:59:59.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21T15:18:52.228Z
- **Source information URL:** https://jobs.priorygroup.com/en/postings/009c2be5-7435-41c6-8db9-12c05b911fb7
- **Application URL:** https://jobs.priorygroup.com/en/postings/009c2be5-7435-41c6-8db9-12c05b911fb7
- **Employer website:** https://jobs.priorygroup.com/why-join-us/

## Job Content

Priory Highbank Centre £46,000 per annumFull Time – 37.5 hoursHighbank has an opportunity for a Clinical Lead to join our team. The Priory Highbank Centre is a 19 bedded facility for Neuro-rehabilitation and complex neuro-disability. Service users are referred mainly from NHS funders across the country for slow stream neuro rehabilitation or specialist assessments like PDoC assessments by experienced clinicians. The team also manages those people with complex tracheostomy and/or mechanical ventilation for specialist assessments or slow stream neuro-rehabilitation.

### What you'll be doing

- To promote, monitor and implement standards for service provision within the clinical environments, evaluating through clinical governance and audits as per company guidance and standards.
- Provide clinical leadership, positive role modelling to the whole team, ensuring effective communication across the multidisciplinary team, through supervision, mentoring and appraisals.
- Develop close working relationships with external professionals and clinical colleagues, ensuring clinical practice is in line with Priory policies and procedures and complies with statutory regulations and quality standards
- Be the leader for the clinical team at site, directly supervising the nursing team and supporting other clinicians as a senior clinical colleague.
- Be the main contact and liaison person for commissioners, families and other external professionals who supports our service users at site
- Conduct and organize pre- admission assessments following referrals from external stakeholders and consultants, working with the whole MDT.
- Carry out nursing and neuro assessments alongside other clinical colleagues to identify service user needs, before planning and delivering the appropriate interventions.
- Compose Nursing reports and attend / lead on multidisciplinary team meetings / reports with other senior clinicians.
- Lead the implementation of new innovations within their site and sharing best practice with colleagues within the service.
- Undertake on-call duties as part of the leadership team at site to advise and support team as required.

### What we will give you in return

- Designated supernumery hours to do leadership and managerial duties
- All mandatory training provided at site
- Support and opportunities for continuing professional development and specialist training relevant to the speciality
- Contributory pension scheme
- Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and private healthcare
- Access to development opportunities
- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel
- Leadership & management development
- Long service award
- Refer a friend bonuses

## Person Specification

### What you'll bring to the role

**Essential**

- You will be an experienced and enthusiastic Registered Nurse with post qualification experience. You will have managerial or leadership experience, preferably working in a neurological or complex care service in a mixture of physical, sensory, cognitive, emotional & psychological difficulties e.g. prolonged disorders of consciousness, long term medical conditions, tracheostomy and long term mechanical ventilation etc.Applicants will be subject to recruitment and selection procedures designed to emphasis the Unit's commitment to the safeguarding of its service users.

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