Change Grow Live
Cluster Lead Nurse
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Overview
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At Change Grow Live, we’re more than just a substance misuse charity, we’re a community driven by our core values: Be Open, Be Compassionate, Be Bold. We believe in the power of transformation, and we’re looking for a Cluster Lead Nurse to join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team in Birmingham.
If you're ready to inspire change, this is the place for you.
Why work with us?
Are you seeking a role where every day brings new challenges and opportunities? At Change Grow Live, we embrace a whole-person approach to care, treating each person accessing treatment with us as a unique individual on their recovery journey. Our team thrives on collaboration, bringing together service managers, consultant psychiatrists, dedicated healthcare professionals, compassionate nurses, empathetic recovery staff, enthusiastic volunteers, and supportive peer mentors.
This is an excellent opportunity for an energetic and passionate Cluster Lead Nurse to help shape our vision in how we provide clinical services to individuals whose lives have been affected by drugs and alcohol.
Where:
Birmingham (This is a fully on-site position. Remote or hybrid working arrangements are not available for this role.)
Hours:
37 hours per week
Contract Type:
Permanent
Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.
Responsibilities
As a Cluster Lead Nurse, you will provide visible clinical leadership across substance misuse services, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and recovery-focused nursing care. You will lead the nursing workforce while working closely with operational managers and the multidisciplinary team to continuously improve clinical quality and patient outcomes.
Your role includes:
- Lead and develop a team of registered nurses and healthcare assistants.
- Provide professional nursing leadership across the cluster.
- Deliver high-quality evidence-based clinical interventions for people experiencing drug and alcohol problems.
- Ensure compliance with NMC standards, clinical governance requirements and organisational policies.
- Support medicines management, prescribing governance and clinical risk management.
- Lead safeguarding practice for adults and children.
- Monitor clinical performance, audits and quality improvement initiatives.
- Coach, supervise and develop nursing staff through appraisal, supervision and training.
- Work collaboratively with Service Managers, Consultant Psychiatrists, Doctors, Non-Medical Prescribers (NMPs) and Recovery Teams.
- Promote integrated working with primary care, hospitals, mental health services and partner agencies.
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About you:
- Strong clinical credibility
- Inspirational leadership
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to motivate and develop teams
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- Compassionate, person-centred practice
- Flexibility within a busy community service
- Commitment to high standards of clinical governance
Essential requirements included:
- Registered Nurse (NMC)
- Experience within drug and alcohol services or related fields
- Leadership and management experience
- Knowledge of safeguarding legislation
- Clinical assessment and risk management skills
- Experience supervising and developing staff
- Ability to work across multiple sites
- Excellent organisational and partnership-working skills
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
- We also have a wide range of educational opportunities including free access to the RCNi learning platform and we reimburse your NMC fee
- 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
What we offer you:
- Generous holiday entitlement (+ bank holidays), increasing annually for first five years’ service
- Flexible working arrangements
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week, plus access to our Wellness Hub and Employee Assistance Program
- Contributory pension scheme
- Discounts on shopping, cinema, holidays, and more
- A friendly and supportive team environment
- Free eye test vouchers
- Extensive training, career development, and progression opportunities
- Cycle to Work and generous Refer a Friend Scheme
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As part of our commitment to patient safety and professional standards, all nurses are required to wear the designated company uniform while on duty. This ensures a consistent, hygienic, and professional appearance in line with our healthcare protocols
Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role
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We want to understand your experiences, achievements and strengths, so please make sure your application reflects your own story and clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria and the impact you've made in previous roles.
There's no need to write in a particular style. The strongest applications are those that are authentic, specific and clearly demonstrate your skills, experience and potential. We look forward to learning more about you.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible
Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy
Salary Range (pro rata if part time)
CGL points 45 to 47 (£51,199.03 - £53,526.89)
ILW / OLW / Fringe
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
Closing Date
20/9/2026
If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:
Mary Chiyanike | Mary.Chiyanike@cgl.org.uk | 07502917650
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
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