Clinical Lead for Procare Adult Community Nursing East WaverleyThe closing date is 19 July 2026Job summaryWe are seeking an inspiring Clinical Lead to join our Adult Community Nursing service to cover maternity leave. You will provide visible leadership across Guildford and Waverley, ensuring safe, high-quality, and responsive care. Covering 12 months from Nov 2026.
The post holder is responsible for the delivery of a safe and high quality community nursing service in a defined locality through the effective line management of the District Nursing and additional service lines teams including the recruitment, budget, appraisals, continual professional development, key performance indicators, compliance, governance, and HR matters.
Main duties of the jobThis role combines strategic, operational, and clinical leadership across multiple services:
- District Nursing
- Urgent Community Response
- Night Response
- Phlebotomy
As part of the Senior Leadership Team, you will:
- Drive service excellence and innovation
- Lead workforce development and service transformation
- Work collaboratively with neighbourhood teams and system partners
We are looking for someone who is:
- A registered nurse with strong community nursing experience
- A confident and motivating leader
- Skilled in communication, problem-solving, and partnership working
- Passionate about high-quality patient care and population health
- Able to balance leadership with hands-on clinical practice
- Ready to take a step into a leadership role
About usThe Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.
With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.
We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.
DetailsDate posted: 02 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £59,798 to £67,020 a year
pa pro rata includes HCAS
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 384-CR-ClinicalLead
Job locations: Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, GU2 7XX, United Kingdom
Job responsibilitiesTo ensure the provision of an accessible, responsive, high quality, safe, efficient, and clinically effective locality based adult community nursing service that meets the needs of patients and carers, and is aligned to the needs of the local population
To provide highly visible clinical, professional, and transformational leadership to local adult community nursing teams, professional partners, and stakeholders within each locality area and across the Guildford and Waverley Integrated Care Partnership (ICP)
To work as part of the senior leadership team and triumvirate, including a GP Clinical Directors, Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and Adult Community Health Services area to ensure optimisation of resources, sharing of good practice, driving forward innovation, implementation of service improvement and shared learning
To form effective, sustainable, and good working relationships with local GPs, Practice Nurse, Social Care, Mental Health, and other professional partners
To work with other Clinical Leads, Deputy Head of Nursing, and the senior leadership team to deliver the adult community nursing strategy, NHS and Company values and behaviours
To work clinically 20% of the week
Participate in the manager on call rota as required.
Manage and lead a specific portfolio of services as agreed locally to ensure Procare Adult Community Nursing is delivered across Guildford and Waverley
Manage initial patient complaints and escalate as necessary.
Locally agreed portfolio to cover specific areas such as Health and Wellbeing, Primary Care, Unscheduled Care and Night Response.
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- Registered Level 1 Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
- Educated to level 6 / degree level in relevant area
- Evidence of level 7 / masters level study, or equivalent experience
- Completion of DN SPQ
- Teaching / Assessing / Mentorship qualification
- Clinically competent in areas relevant to adult community nursing as 40% of this post is clinical
Desirable- Management / Leadership course
- Project management qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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 RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer detailsEmployer name: Procare Community Services
Address: Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, GU2 7XX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website
Employer contact detailsFor questions about the job, contact:Head of Nursing
Ailsa Horsburgh
a.horsburgh@nhs.net
07919411475
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. 
