Community Night Nurse - Team Lead

Partnering Health; Fareham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Fareham is seeking a Community Nurse - Team Lead to provide clinical oversight and leadership. The ideal candidate will ensure high-quality patient care, support clinicians, and drive governance processes. With responsibilities in risk management and service improvement, this role is critical for the success of the integrated urgent care service. Join a growing team dedicated to improving local healthcare.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical oversight and managing nursing services.
• Ability to drive clinical quality and adhere to governance frameworks.
• Proficient in patient care delivery in various scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safe clinical decision-making and expert care.
• Lead and mentor clinicians, ensuring their professional development.
• Support governance processes and drive service improvements.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Leadership

Risk management

Performance management

Education

Relevant nursing qualification

Job description

As a Community Nurse - Team Lead at Partnering Health Limited (PHL), your role is crucial in providing an efficient and safe integrated urgent care service to patients, delivered with a caring and respectful disposition. You will be part of the clinical and operational team, providing senior clinical oversight of patients within the service to support the safety of the service and mitigate risk.

You will be responsible for the supervision and first-line management of clinicians working within the Night Nursing Services, providing advice, guidance, motivation, and leadership to them. Additionally, you will drive clinical quality and adherence to the PHL governance framework through audits, performance management, incident and complaint management, and serve as a role model.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering safe, clinical decision-making, and expert care to a high standard
• Supporting safe, effective delivery of the Out of Hours Community Night Nursing service, ensuring patient safety and risk management while providing strong, resilient leadership in complex situations
• Leading, managing, and mentoring clinicians, promoting professional development, statutory training compliance, health and wellbeing, and performance management within the team
• Ensuring appraisals, clinical competence, and adherence to PHL policy on disciplinary or performance issues

You will also be responsible for:

• Supporting governance processes in line with PHL and NHS standards, including safeguarding, infection control, incident reporting, CQC compliance, complaints, audits, and quality assurance
• Driving service improvements and sharing best practice through QA meetings, clinical audits, data analysis, and training feedback
• Delivering autonomous patient care in the community, including palliative, wound, bowel/bladder, medicines management, telephone triage, safeguarding, and safe discharge planning
• Providing emergency care when required and facilitating referrals across primary, secondary, and community pathways

PHL Group was founded in 2009 with a clear vision of providing services that contribute to and benefit the local healthcare economy. We operate Integrated Urgent Care, which includes call handling, telephone clinical assessment, out of hours home visiting services, and some face-to-face Primary Care appointments services in Hampshire.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us on our journey to becoming the fastest growing, most trusted healthcare organisation. As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all qualified candidates.