Community Nursing Team Lead

• Provide clinical and operational leadership for a Community Nursing Team, ensuring high standards of safe, person-centred care.
• Manage day-to-day service delivery, including capacity planning, prioritisation of visits, seven-day service cover, and escalation of risks or pressures.
• Lead, supervise and develop staff through appraisal, performance management, clinical supervision, education and training.
• Recruit, retain and support staff wellbeing, attendance, and professional development.
• Ensure compliance with CQC, organisational policies, clinical governance, safeguarding, health and safety, and risk management requirements.
• Manage delegated budgets, resources and staffing efficiently.
• Maintain effective communication within the team and with internal and external stakeholders, positively representing the service.
• Investigate complaints, incidents and serious incidents, identifying root causes, implementing improvements and sharing learning.
• Contribute to service improvement, quality assurance, audits, data reporting and strategic development of community nursing services.
• Maintain professional registration, clinical credibility and ongoing personal and professional development in line with NMC standards.
• Provide clinical leadership, support and guidance for complex caseloads, triage and evidence-based community nursing practice.

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse
• District Nursing Specialist Practice Qualification. (DNSPQ).

Desirable

• Advanced History Taking and Community Nursing Prescriber (V100/150/300)
• Teaching qualification.

Essential

• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas

Essential

• Extensive Community Nursing experience.
• Evidence of leadership and management of a nursing team
• Experience of coaching.

Essential

• Demonstrates wider and current competencies in clinical skills transferable to community setting.
• Creative and innovative approach to service development
• Demonstrates flexibility to deal with the needs of unscheduled services and able to prioritise workloads and work under pressure
• Able to motivate self and teams to manage change
• Ability to support staff to undertake operational and clinical and duties implementing evidence based practice
• Ability to influence and problem solve
• Works collaboratively with their counterparts from teams in other provider organisations to develop a seamless service
• Highly visible, approachable and able to motivate others
• Ability to communicate at all levels; utilising effective written, oral and presentation skills
• Reinforces the need to view users holistically and promote self-care and independence
• Develops strong interpersonal relationships, ensuring that staff are given the opportunity to develop and grow into roles; promoting succession planning, to meet the needs of the service
• Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
• Manage performance and attendance through the application of HR processes
• Participation and leading in audit
• Able to utilise IT and various media in order to support data collection and produce databases, spread sheets and reports

Essential

• Able to demonstrate recent innovative practice
• Able to work flexibly across service areas to enhance quality of service provision
• Valid full UK licence with confidence to drive during unsocial hours and in unusual environments with use of car for work
• Able to work bank Holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service need