Senior Clinical Nurse Manager in Maidstone

The Duke of York’s Royal Military School is seeking to appoint an experienced and dynamic Senior Clinical Nurse Manager to lead the School’s Medical Centre and ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality healthcare services for approximately 500 boarding students. The successful candidate will provide strategic, operational and clinical leadership, overseeing a multidisciplinary team and a wide range of healthcare services, including emergency care, long-term condition management, mental health support and health promotion. They will also play a key role in safeguarding, clinical governance, service development and continuous improvement, helping to enhance the health and wellbeing of students across the School.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic, operational and clinical leadership for the School’s Medical Centre, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality healthcare services.
• Lead, manage and develop the multidisciplinary Medical Centre team, including recruitment, supervision, appraisal, performance management and staff wellbeing.
• Oversee workforce planning, staffing rotas and service provision to ensure appropriate clinical cover and continuity of care.
• Deliver expert clinical assessment, triage, decision-making and care management for students with acute, chronic and complex health needs.
• Ensure the effective planning, coordination and delivery of healthcare services, including emergency response, mental health support, long-term condition management, immunisation programmes and health promotion initiatives.
• Maintain high standards of clinical governance through audit, risk management, incident investigation, quality assurance and continuous service improvement.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare legislation, safeguarding requirements, School policies, professional standards, CQC expectations and NHS guidance.
• Develop and maintain effective partnerships with students, parents, School staff, healthcare providers and external agencies to support student health and wellbeing.
• Provide expert advice to the Senior Leadership Team on healthcare, safeguarding, wellbeing and Medical Centre service development.
• Oversee accurate clinical record keeping, medication management, healthcare protocols and the safe operation of the Medical Centre environment and equipment.

This is a full-time, term-time position plus 6 additional weeks per year, working 37 hours per week. The salary is £42,286-£48,661 per annum (pro rata), based on DOYRMS Band 10 (£50,109-£57,664 FTE), and will be determined according to qualifications and experience. The successful candidate will be expected to start as soon as possible.

Completed application packs should be emailed by Wednesday 8 July 2026. Interviews will take place at The Duke of York’s Royal Military School on Friday 10 July 2026. If you are shortlisted, we will contact you by email with details of the next stage of the recruitment process, including interview arrangements.

Please note that the School reserves the right to close the application deadline earlier than stated, so we encourage candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible. The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that Schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.