HCRG Care Group
Band 7 Transition Lead Nurse
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Job Introduction
Join Our Team as a Band 7 Transition Lead Nurse
Are you ready to make a real difference in the lives of children and families? We’re looking for a compassionate and dedicated Transition Lead Nurse to join our Children's Community Nursing Team in Surrey.
Benefits
- Competitive Pay & Pension: Enjoy a Band 7 Agenda for Change salary and NHS pension benefits.
- Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with NHS professionals nationwide to share insights and develop leading care practices.
- Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and premium offers at national supermarkets, well-known retailers, and indulgent treats like Virgin Experience Days through our Reward Gateway.
- Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, offering access to counselors, career coaching, legal advice, and more.
- Flexible Pay Options: Use Wagestream to track your earnings and access your wages as you need them, without worrying about high-interest loans or overdrafts.
- Learning & Development: Advance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, who collaborate with universities and Health Education England. Access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities to help you grow.
- Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas to improve services, and stay informed through regular updates from our leadership team.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Transition Lead Nurse (Band 7) to lead a high-profile programme focused on improving the experience and outcomes of young people transitioning from children's to adult health and care services.
This is an exciting opportunity to drive transformational change across a complex system, working in partnership with health, social care, education, voluntary sector and independent organisations. As the Transition Lead Nurse, you will be responsible for developing, implementing and embedding integrated transition pathways, policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and best practice guidance that promote consistent, safe and person-centred care.
The post holder will work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders to reduce variation in practice, strengthen partnership working, and ensure young people receive coordinated support as they move between services. You will provide leadership and expert guidance to professionals across organisations, helping to establish clear frameworks that support effective transition planning and improve long-term outcomes.
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The successful candidate will have significant clinical experience, excellent project management and stakeholder engagement skills, and a passion for improving services for young people. This role offers a unique opportunity to leave a lasting legacy by shaping and embedding sustainable transition arrangements that place young people and their families at the centre of care.
This part time role is fixed term for 12 months.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead the development and delivery of an integrated transition programme to improve outcomes for young people moving from children's to adult services.
- Review current transition arrangements, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop standardised pathways aligned with national guidance and best practice.
- Design, implement and embed transition pathways, policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and supporting tools across partner organisations.
- Collaborate with young people, families, carers and professionals to ensure transition services are person-centred, inclusive and responsive to individual needs.
- Build strong partnerships across health, social care, education, voluntary and independent sector organisations to drive service improvement and shared accountability.
- Chair and facilitate multi-agency stakeholder groups, providing leadership, coordination and expert advice on transition best practice.
- Develop and monitor performance measures, analyse outcomes and implement quality improvement initiatives to reduce variation and improve the experience of transition.
- Deliver training, guidance and resources to support practitioners in understanding and fulfilling their roles within transition pathways.
- Provide regular progress updates to senior leaders and governance groups, ensuring sustainable improvements are embedded beyond the lifespan of the project.
- Act as a specialist clinical resource and advocate for excellent transition planning, promoting safe, effective and coordinated care for young people.
Ideal Candidate
Essential Qualifications
- Registered Nurse (NMC Registered).
- Degree in Nursing or equivalent professional qualification.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Essential Experience
- Significant experience working with children, young people or adults with complex health needs.
- Experience of leading service development or quality improvement projects.
- Experience of multi-agency and partnership working.
- Experience developing policies, pathways, protocols or operating procedures.
- Experience influencing change across organisational boundaries.
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Essential Skills
- Strong project and programme management skills.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to analyse complex systems and develop practical solutions.
- Excellent written communication skills, including report and policy writing.
- Ability to facilitate workshops and collaborative working groups.
- Strong understanding of change management principles.
Other requirements: Full UK Driving Licence and access to a car insured for business use.
About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes.
We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.
We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Contact Information
For further information please contact Lisa on 07867373045
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