Lead Nurse

Overview

Do you want to make a difference? Do you want to work in an environment where you can use your clinical skills and your creativity to achieve the best for people?

At Change Grow Live, we believe in the power of transformation. If you're a dedicated and passionate nurse with a burning desire to impact lives positively, you've found the right place. We're looking for a Lead Nurse to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team in Barnet, London, on a 12 month maternity cover basis.

Here is your opportunity to lead the nursing team and support our multidisciplinary team. Our teams are multi-disciplinary, they consist of a service manager, consultant psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, health care assistants, recovery staff, volunteers, administrators, and peer
mentors, all focused on bringing the individuals using our services the best possible support & interventions.

Where: Barnet

Full Time Salary Range: £43,814.50 - £48,183.48 (pro rata for part time hours)

Allowance: £21,63.27 Outer London Weighting (pro rata for part time hours)

Contract Type: Fixed term until 31 st Jan 2026 (maternity leave cover)

Responsibilities:

As a 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.

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.

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we'd love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.