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Clinical Nurse Lead

Priory Healthcare

Bury, BL9 5LXView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£46,000

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

20 October 2026

20 days left

Job description

You will be part of a compassionate team that is committed to supporting people's wellbeing. We take a personalised approach, using proven therapies t...

  • To promote, monitor and implement standards for service provision within the clinical environments, evaluating through clinical governance and audits as per company guidance and standards.
  • Provide clinical leadership, positive role modelling to the whole team, ensuring effective communication across the multidisciplinary team, through supervision, mentoring and appraisals.
  • Develop close working relationships with external professionals and clinical colleagues, ensuring clinical practice is in line with Priory policies and procedures and complies with statutory regulations and quality standards
  • Be the leader for the clinical team at site, directly supervising the nursing team and supporting other clinicians as a senior clinical colleague.
  • Be the main contact and liaison person for commissioners, families and other external professionals who supports our service users at site
  • Conduct and organize pre- admission assessments following referrals from external stakeholders and consultants, working with the whole MDT.
  • Carry out nursing and neuro assessments alongside other clinical colleagues to identify service user needs, before planning and delivering the appropriate interventions.
  • Compose Nursing reports and attend / lead on multidisciplinary team meetings / reports with other senior clinicians.
  • Lead the implementation of new innovations within their site and sharing best practice with colleagues within the service.
  • Undertake on-call duties as part of the leadership team at site to advise and support team as required.

Priory Highbank Centre

£46,000 per annum

Highbank has an opportunity for a Clinical Nurse Lead to join our team.

The Priory Highbank Centre is a 19 bedded facility for Neuro-rehabilitation and complex neuro-disability. Service users are referred mainly from NHS funders across the country for slow stream neuro rehabilitation or specialist assessments like PDoC assessments by experienced clinicians. The team also manages those people with complex tracheostomy and/or mechanical ventilation for specialist assessments or slow stream neuro-rehabilitation.

Priory is the UKs leading independent provider of mental health and adult social care. With 12,000 colleagues and a network of 270 services, we support over 24,000 people each year to live their lives as fully and independently as possible. We treat more than 70 conditions including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and childrens mental health and provide residential and supported living care for autistic adults, people with a learning disability, PraderWilli Syndrome, brain injuries and older people.

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process. Learn more about the accessibility support we offer here.

For agency enquiries and applications, please view our legal statement here.

All roles are subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential: - - Registered Nurse with post qualification experience; - - Managerial and leadership experience within neurological or complex care service

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

21 September 2026

Last checked

23 September 2026

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