Overview
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Service Lead to shape and lead community services across the Borough of Harrow. The role focuses on delivering compassionate, patient‑centred care that keeps people safe and well at home, while preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting timely discharges.
Qualifications
Candidates should be a clinician from a Nursing, Paramedic, or Allied Health Professional background with strong urgent‑care experience and advanced clinical decision‑making skills. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast‑paced community setting, managing complex cases while leading a high‑performing team. They must be a confident, collaborative leader committed to service improvement, patient safety, and high‑quality care. Strong communication, professionalism, organisation, and the ability to work effectively under pressure are essential.
Responsibilities
* Deliver patient‑centred, high‑quality care with a high level of professional and personal autonomy.
* Apply specialist knowledge and skills in clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of evidence‑based practice.
* Act as the Advanced Decision Maker in collaboration with non‑medical consultants or medical colleagues, ensuring safe and effective patient care.
* Support a patient‑focused and efficient service, managing potentially undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations across the service.
* Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to provide clinical care, emotional and psychological support, and education to patients, service users and carers.
* Promote and undertake research, service improvement and clinical audits within the pathways to drive continuous improvement in patient outcomes.
* Design and deliver education and training—both practical and theoretical—to staff groups, including nurses and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), internally across the Trust and externally as required.
* Maintain a minimum of 20 % clinical practice, with the remaining time allocated across other service pillars, pathways and Trust responsibilities.
* Provide operational leadership for the Falls and Care Homes services, ensuring smooth running and oversight even where direct clinical input is not required.
Benefits
Competitive employment package and opportunities for professional development within a supportive, inclusive organisation.
Successful applicants must demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values—Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion and Empowerment—alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Saturday 16 May 2026.
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