Lead Nurse

Overview

Believe in people?

The best people have one thing in common.

They care.

At Change Grow Live, we’re more than just a substance misuse charity, we’re a community driven by our core values: Be Open, Be Compassionate, Be Bold. We believe in the power of transformation, and we’re looking for a Lead Nurse to join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

 

If you're ready to inspire change, this is the place for you.

 

Why work with us?

Are you seeking a role where every day brings new challenges and opportunities? At Change Grow Live, we embrace a whole-person approach to care, treating each person accessing treatment with us as a unique individual on their recovery journey. Our team thrives on collaboration, bringing together service managers, consultant psychiatrists, dedicated healthcare professionals, compassionate nurses, empathetic recovery staff, enthusiastic volunteers, and supportive peer mentors.

This is an excellent opportunity for an energetic and passionate Lead Nurse to help shape our vision in how we provide clinical services to individuals whose lives have been affected by drugs and alcohol.   

 

Where: St Lukes Service (This is a fully on-site position. Remote or hybrid working arrangements are not available for this role.)

Hours:

Full Time Salary: Dependent on experience (Pro rata for part time)

Contract Type: Permanant

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

Responsibilities

The Lead Nurse role is a varied one, the successful candidate will be an integral member of a multidisciplinary team, offering specialist clinical interventions to people who use our services.

Every person who comes into our service is treated as an individual. Understanding the importance of a whole person approach along with being curious, a good listener, a clinically robust practitioner and having a flexible approach are essential skills.

Your role includes:

• Demonstrating skills of a motivated leader including being enthusiastic, creative, ability to inspire and committed to leading the nursing team.

• Developing and delivery of clinical, health and wellbeing interventions.

• Providing clinical and managerial supervision to the nursing team.

• Contributing to service development to ensure that all who use our services consistently receive high quality interventions that adhere to best practice guidelines and achieve high professional standards.

• Demonstrating excellent clinical skills and monitor, audit and sustain best practice across the sites within the location.

• Providing clinical interventions at hub and community sites.

We want to support you to recognise and achieve your goals:

• We hold regular national nurse and HCA forums, and you will have regular 1:1s and appraisals

• We actively support our nurses with revalidation with protected continuing professional development time

• We also have a wide range of educational opportunities including free access to the RCNi learning platform and we reimburse your NMC fee

• All our team members are encouraged to take a wellbeing hour every week and access personal well -being resources

• Our nursing pay is competitive with the NHS Agenda for Change pay bands

What we offer you:

• Generous holiday entitlement (+ bank holidays), increasing annually for first five years’ service

• Flexible working arrangements

• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week, plus access to our Wellness Hub and Employee Assistance Program

• Contributory pension scheme

• Discounts on shopping, cinema, holidays, and more

• A friendly and supportive team environment

• Free eye test vouchers

• Extensive training, career development, and progression opportunities

• Cycle to Work and generous Refer a Friend Scheme

As part of our commitment to patient safety and professional standards, all nurses are required to wear the designated company uniform while on duty. This ensures a consistent, hygienic, and professional appearance in line with our healthcare protocols

Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role

note about using AI in your application

AI can be a really helpful tool when putting together your application, and we're happy for you to use it. However, what we're most interested in is you.

We want to understand your experiences, achievements and strengths, so please make sure your application reflects your own story and clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria and the impact you've made in previous roles.

There's no need to write in a particular style. The strongest applications are those that are authentic, specific and clearly demonstrate your skills, experience and potential. We look forward to learning more about you.

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL points 40 to 44 (£45,583.51 - £50,128.89)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

Outer London Weighting (£2,250.61)

If you have any questions or concerns on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.