Cluster Lead Nurse

Cluster Lead Nurse  

Full time permanent role 

RIVER Liverpool Drug and Alcohol Support Services   

Salary CGL Spine point 45-47 - (£49,950.27 - £52,221.35) 

Overview 

We are looking to recruit 2 Cluster Lead Nurse roles, to join our new service delivering Drugs and Alcohol interventions across Liverpool. One role will lead on the alcohol clinical service delivery whilst the other role will lead on the drug clinical service delivery and development.  

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives. Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our teams apply these daily, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options. 

 Our cluster lead nurses play an integral part in Change Grow Lives mission to help people change the direction of their lives, to grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.  

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent clinical leadership and management skills and have a flexible approach to their work to monitor, audit and sustain best practice. In return for hard work, professionalism, and dedication we will offer excellent terms and conditions, a comprehensive career development plan and the support you need to really make a difference to service users’ lives. 

Responsibilities:

As a Cluster Lead Nurse within Change Grow Live, you will work with people who use our services, helping them get to where they want to be in their recovery journey.

In our services no two days are the same. Every person who comes into our service is treated as an individual so 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.

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, which totals up to 6 days per year.
• We also have a wide range of educational opportunities including free access to the RCNi learning platform and we pay for your NMC fee.
• We offer you the opportunity to use the government backed Apprenticeship Levy fund to develop nursing practice in line with your specific role.
• 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.

We always keep the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to the active involvement of service users in their care and service delivery.

Does this sound like you?

If so, please read the job description and we look forward to reading your application soon. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Diane Rapley on 07507847530 or diane.rapley@cgl.org.uk

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

We will accept direct applicants only for this role.