Job Overview

Exciting Leadership Opportunity – Lead Nurse, Medical Care Group, Jersey
Are you an experienced and ambitious Senior Nurse ready to take the next big step in your career? Do you have the drive, vision, and leadership skills to shape the future of healthcare in a progressive and dynamic environment? If so, we want to hear from you!
Join Us as a Lead Nurse – Make a Real Difference!

This is an exceptional, permanent opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced nursing leader to play a pivotal role in our Medical Care Group based in Jersey.
As Lead Nurse, you will be at the forefront of clinical excellence, ensuring the highest standards of patient care while driving innovation and collaboration. Reporting directly to the Chief of Service, you will be a key part of our leadership team, working alongside senior stakeholders to shape the future of healthcare. Your contributions will directly impact patient outcomes, staff development, and service excellence.
What You’ll Be Doing:
•    Lead with Impact – Oversee clinical governance, ensuring safe, high-quality, and effective patient care.
•    Shape the Future – Contribute to strategic planning, policy-making, and service development.
•    Inspire and Empower – Drive workforce leadership, fostering a culture of innovation, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
•    Collaborate at the Highest Level – Work closely with General Managers, Clinical Directors, and senior healthcare leaders to deliver outstanding care.
•    Be a Key Decision-Maker – Participate in the organisation’s senior manager on-call rota.

Who We’re Looking For:
We need an inspiring and forward-thinking nurse leader who is ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role.
You’ll bring: Proven leadership experience at a senior level within nursing. Strong clinical governance expertise and a track record of driving quality improvement. Strategic vision with the ability to influence and lead change in a complex healthcare setting. A passion for excellence in patient care and service delivery. Exceptional communication and leadership skills to motivate teams and drive results.

Why Choose Jersey?
Jersey offers an enviable work-life balance in a stunning island setting. With a high-quality healthcare system, a supportive professional community, and a lifestyle that blends career growth with coastal charm, this is the perfect place to take your nursing leadership career to the next level.

Are You Ready to Lead with Purpose?
If you’re a dedicated, strategic, and passionate nursing leader looking for a career-defining opportunity, apply today!

For an informal chat please contact Jessie Marshall - j.marshall2@health.gov.je
 

Statutory Responsibilities

Active engagement, participation and compliance with any other statutory responsibilities applicable to the role, as amended from time to time. This role is politically restricted. The jobholder is not permitted to undertake political activity involving standing for election to the States or as a Parish Constable, or publicly supporting someone who is standing for election or playing a public part in any political manner.

Planning & Organisation

Planning skills required to align service provision with staff resource, considering large variability in patterns of working, such as rotas. Ability to adapt or direct resource as required to fulfil service needs which are liable to constant fluctuation with service pressures. Organisational planning to enable a smooth transfer for service users across areas and engagement in multi-agency inputs. Lead regular operational meetings to ensure service delivery to all areas of care group and reduce areas of clinical and non-clinical risk, responding appropriately to changing organisational demands and priorities. Ability to be responsive to changing organisational demands and priorities.

People Management

The post holder will be responsible for up to 300 staff. Manages staff in accordance with HR policies and procedures and will support staff to select and appoint with the necessary skills, and values. Co-ordinate staff development and use the appraisal, performance review and revalidation to continually improve performance. Ensure all team are registered with the NMC, Jersey and able to maintain their registration through NMC revalidation. Ensure that mandatory and statutory training is in place for staff in matters relating to infection prevention and control and that compliance is monitored. Ensure that team mandatory and statutory requirements are met.

Job Specific Outcomes 1 of 2

1. Responsibility for the delivery of the nursing and midwifery strategy across the nursing services. Operational responsibility to be able to deliver the high standard of clinical care and modernisation of services.
2. Manage human and material resources within their designated area and be responsible for ensuring nursing and midwifery meet cost targets that are part of a larger budget held at Head of Service level, to ensure financial sustainability within the care group.
3. Responsible for the staff governance arrangements in relation to professional regulation, supervision, and revalidation, ensuring a workforce that is fit to practice.
4. Performance manage direct reports, and enable personal and professional development that underpins the strategic direction of the organisation and ensures effective delivery of high quality care.
5. Maintain and enhance standards of patient care through the implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives, regular service evaluation and developments that involve patients/users of the service.
6. Provide day to day professional leadership and management of the nursing and midwifery workforce to ensure efficient and effective use of nursing manpower, patient outcomes, patient experience and patient safety is mitigated.
7. Provide clinical advice and expertise to peers, patients and management to ensure that best practice is promoted and delivered in order to reduce the risk to patients and that the safety of the patient journey is maximised.

Job Specific Outcomes 2 of 2

8. Communicate national and local policies and initiatives that impact on patient and nursing care including polices, guidelines and competencies and implement these to ensure practice remains contemporary and within guidelines

9. Provide specialist nursing or midwifery input to the Head of Care Group, Head of Profession and other key managers to enable them to progress service development, business planning and service delivery

10. Work as a member of the multi-professional health and care teams in furthering the clinical governance programme, ensuring safe and auditable practice.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registered with the appropriate specialist qualification for the job
• Master’s degree in Health related subject or equivalent level of experience.
• Evidence of further relevant professional courses and CPD
• Mentorship Qualification or equivalent.
• Management or Leadership award / qualification

Knowledge

• Budget Management
• Active engagement in clinical supervision
• Advanced clinical knowledge and skills
• Knowledge of quality and governance agenda
• Expert practitioner in area of nursing / midwifery
• Understanding of NMC Code of Practice and requirements of it for the practice and behaviour of staff and self, and the midwives rules
• Highly developed specialist knowledge of nursing procedures underpinned by theory and experience.
• Candidates must display expert level knowledge of the Governance and Risk frameworks required to underpin the delivery of safe patient care

Technical Work Based Skills

Strategic awareness in service development

Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite

General skills / attributes

Ability to present effectively both verbally and in writing

High level interpersonal and influencing skills

Experience

• Experience in undertaking research and applying to practice
• Significant post qualification working experience in order to have developed consolidated practice to lead the staff teams.
• Experience of working in an autonomous nursing/midwifery role.
• Experience of working at a senior clinical level within a managerial role.
• Demonstrable experience of managing change effectively.
• Significant management, human resource and operational experience.
• Experience of designing and delivering training to colleagues at all levels

Communication and Relationships

The post holder will receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to individuals - patients, families and staff. Needs to be able to display empathy especially at times of distress and will be required to impart same information to others in an appropriate way. The post holder needs to be able to effectively counsel and support colleagues at times of difficulty, distress or challenge in order to ensure continued delivery of safe services. Communicate effectively with key stakeholders this will require the post holder to have highly competent skills in negotiation, motivation, persuasion skills, presentation skills, and listening skills. Communicate with clinical professional colleagues, politicians, the media, professional bodies, Jersey Care Commission and staff side organisations. Positive working relationships are key to developing new services, managing existing services and safeguarding those in our care and requires key influencing skills. Provides the professional advice and support to others in relation to professional and practice matters, ethical issues. Ability to communicate with all levels of staff from Board to ward level using appropriate language