Chronic Disease Nurse

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Chronic Disease Nurse

The closing date is 13 February 2026

The post holder will provide robust clinical leadership, and they will support the Head of Healthcare of the Male estate to ensure delivery of high quality effective and efficient services and develop integrated pathways to support seamless service delivery built around patient need in the enhanced inpatient setting, including the implementation of systems and processes that support effective service delivery.

The Clinical Lead will help to clinically manage the service landscape, this role will oversee patient care delivery, implement practices to maintain high standards, regularly review and update care plans, and evaluate clinical outcomes to identify areas for improvement.

The Clinical Lead will take on a supervisory and hands‑on clinical role, including direct clinical support, running clinics, medication administration, oversight of the Enhanced care unit and long term condition management.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical leadership within the team and will actively seek out and disseminate information, governance, best practice, and knowledge that supports the development of service delivery, ensuring clinical innovation and quality. Highlight and facilitate the opportunity for introduction and development of new practices thereby supporting the implementation of key strategic priorities across the team. Support and drive clinical changes in service delivery. By providing clinical leadership, clinical governance, and supporting junior staff, the Clinical Lead will work towards improving clinical decision‑making, and patient outcomes.

The clinical lead role will focus on streamlining clinical workflows, reducing duplication, and enabling Band 6 staff to work at the top of their scope.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

- Registered with the NMC as an RGN

- Experience working at Band 7 level

- Leadership qualification or willingness to work towards the qualification

Knowledge and Experience

- Evidence of leading a multidisciplinary team

- Demonstrate an understanding of national government initiatives in health and social care and how they impact

- Knowledge of working with a diverse population and the needs of this group

- Experience of developing, delivering and evaluating care and risk management plans

- Evidence of experience with long term condition management

- Experience of investigating Datix

- Evidence of successful mentoring

- Experience of using Healthroster

Skills

- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills

- Ability to manage highly stressful and emotive situations

- Current local knowledge of policy and challenges facing NHS providers

- Ability to demonstrate strong IT skills

- Prison Experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

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