Band 6 Team Leader (Fixed Term Contract Until June 2026)

HCRG Care Group; New Lane; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health service provider in West Lancashire is seeking a Band 6 Nurse Team Leader for a fixed-term contract. The role involves leading patient-centered care, managing complex clinical cases, and supervising junior staff. Ideal candidates will have extensive community nursing experience and must hold the V150 qualification. This full-time position offers competitive salary and various employee benefits.

Benefits

NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms

Rewards and discounts via My Reward Hub

Access to wages as you earn

Wellbeing support services

Career development opportunities

Open culture encouraging ideas for innovation

Qualifications

• Extensive clinical experience in community nursing.
• Ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge.
• Experience with complex needs and long-term conditions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver quality care through assessment and planning.
• Manage a team of band 5 nurses and healthcare assistants.
• Liaise with health and social care professionals.

Skills

Clinical management

Case load management

Analytical skills

Flexibility

Education

V150 qualification

SPQ qualification within two years

Job description

Band 6 Team Leader (Fixed Term Contract Until June 2026)

HCRG Care Group
Ormskirk, Lancashire, L40 8JU
£38,456 per year - estimated ?
Contract
Full time
NEW

We are looking for a registered Band 6 Nurse Team Leader to join our established Community Nursing Team in West Lancashire at Clayton House.

In the role you will work in partnership with our patients and their families to lead in the delivery of patient centred, safe and effective care. The successful candidate will require the ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and skills in the management of patients with complex needs, long term conditions and end of life.

You will have extensive clinical experience and experience of case load management, preferably within the community setting and be able to demonstrate recent and ongoing clinical professional development relevant to this post.

This is a Fixed Term, full time role predominately working Monday - Friday with flexible hours between 7:45am - 6:15pm (and on a band 6 weekend rota)

You will be responsible for the following:

• To deliver quality care through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• To work in partnership, liaising with health and social care professionals to ensure holistic patient care.
• To manage a caseload and a team of band 5 nurses and healthcare assistants.
• Completion of root‑cause analysis on patients.

The successful applicant will have:

• At least V150 qualified.
• Community experience adult nursing and able to demonstrate extensive knowledge, analytical and practical skills required.
• Flexibility in meeting the needs of the service within the community setting.
• Knowledge in implementing change, leading to service improvements.
• Experience in case load management.
• Agree to complete SPQ qualification within first two years of employment.

Package Description

As a Band 6 Nurse Team Leader you will be part of our valued team in our West Lancashire Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our “Outstanding” learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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