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Operational Team Leader – Community Nursing Service

Procare Community Services

Guildford, GU1 1LJView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£51,657 to £58,785

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

5 October 2026

7 days left

Job description

Are you a passionate and experienced community nurse ready to take the next step in your career? We are looking for an enthusiastic Band 7 Community N...

In this key leadership role, you will support services across localities to ensure the consistent delivery of safe, high-quality, and compassionate care within the community.Working closely with the Clinical Lead and District Nurse, you will lead and support a dedicated community nursing team, playing a central role in coordinating patient care, managing incidents, promoting staff development, and maintaining high professional standards. You will also contribute to clinical governance and service improvement, helping to ensure our service continues to evolve to meet the needs of the communities we serve.Your leadership will be visible and supportive, creating a positive team culture where staff feel valued, motivated, and empowered to deliver excellent care.This is a varied and rewarding role that combines 40% clinical practice with 60% leadership and management responsibilities, allowing you to remain hands-on in patient care while also driving improvements in service delivery, team development, and patient outcomes.

  • To provide operational support across Guildford and Waverley Community Nursing, working with the District Nurses and Clinical Leads to manage staffing including return to work, sickness, formal reviews and appraisals.
  • To manage off duty for Guildford and Waverley Community Nursing.
  • To lead on Datix and investigations delegated from the Clinical Lead.
  • To be clinical up to 40% of the role as required.
  • To provide highly visible managerial leadership to the Community Nursing team and support of staff development in these areas.
  • To ensure patient safety and clinical effectiveness, providing expert evidence based clinical advice and support to all staff within the locality.

The post holder will use an electronic patient held record system, EMIS as a record of care and all our nurses are provided with a work IPhone and IPad for mobile working.

The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.

With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.

We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.

Education and Qualifications

Essential: - Registered Level 1 Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration.; - Assessor / NMC Supervisor / Mentorship

Desirable: - Completion of DN SPQ; - Clinical Supervisor

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

  • Broad range of clinical skills relevant to community nursing, - including but not limited to Compression Bandaging, Dopplers, Venepuncture, Male & Suprapubic Catheter, Syringe drivers and Palliative care symptom management.
  • Able to demonstrate experience of managing people, undertaking appraisals, investigations, formal and informal reviews, Supporting staff through HR processes.

Desirable: - Experience of undertaking audits, presenting feedback and owning action plans.

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

23 September 2026

Last checked

25 September 2026

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Procare Community Services

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