Clinical Lead

Main area Admission Avoidance Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (long days covering the service from 8am-8pm and 10am -10pm) Job ref 828-PROVIDE4277

Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Kestrel House Town Chelmsford Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 25/09/2026 23:59

Job Overview

Are you an enthusiastic and compassionate Adult Registered Nurse or Paramedic looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference? Join our Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT) and help deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in the community, supporting people to remain safely in their own homes and avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions. We are looking for a proactive, supportive band 7 nurse/paramedic with proven clinical leadership and decision-making skills.

UCRT is a 7-day service providing rapid assessment and treatment for patients experiencing a health crisis in their own homes, including nursing and residential care homes. Working closely with partners across Mid and South Essex—including ambulance services, acute hospitals, GPs, social care, community services and the voluntary sector—we provide holistic assessments within two hours of referral and deliver timely, coordinated care.

As a clinical lead you will be expected to provide senior clinical leadership within the URCT team and undertake a range of clinical duties and nursing procedures along with supporting the team to manage more complex patients within their own home.

You will need to demonstrate expert knowledge surrounding community care and a commitment to provide high quality, safe and effective care for patients requiring rapid nursing intervention within their own home to prevent hospital admission.

Main duties of the job

• To improve outcomes for people with frailty and complex co-morbidities and reduce the need for these people to attend or be admitted into hospital.

Working with partners to ensure effective systems are in place to make best use of services/facilities, aiming to reduce unnecessary admissions, reducing the length of stay in inpatient facilities and more efficient use of community services.

Communicating and advocating across areas of clinical responsibility to ensure effective and personalised care is delivered for patients.

Organising and managing your own time, allocating/delegating tasks appropriately, in order to achieve service goals

Performing comprehensive, specialist, holistic assessment for the individual patients meeting the service criteria. This will include physical examination and exploration of mental state and any cognitive deficits

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see attached job description for full detailed list of duties and requirements of the role advertised. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• NMc Pin/HCPC registration
• NMP qualification
• consultation and assessment qualification
• 3 years experience as a band 6
  
  

desirable

Desirable criteria

• managerial experience
• Good written skills
• Good communication Skills
  
  

Further Information

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
• If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net
• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
  
  

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

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Work Trials

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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.