Community Nurse Locality Team Lead

Phoenix MCT; Helston; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated and skilled nurse to join their vibrant community nursing team in Helston. This role offers the opportunity to lead a dynamic group while providing high-quality care to patients in their homes. As a Band 6 Team Leader, you will be responsible for managing a busy team, ensuring effective patient assessments, and delivering evidence-based care. The position requires flexibility across disciplines and a commitment to excellence in patient care. If you possess strong leadership and clinical skills, this is the perfect opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with experience in community settings.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support a community nursing team.
• Provide holistic nursing assessments and evidence-based care.

Skills

Leadership skills

Conflict resolution skills

IT skills

Education

Degree in nursing

Current professional registration – RN (Adult)

Evidence of recent relevant professional development

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Email

Internet access

Job description

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

About

Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust is a Foundation Trust providing services for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Child & Family and Adult Community Services for the county of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

The Trust is at the leading edge of practice development with a range of innovative projects. We achieve excellence through harnessing the quality, energy and initiative of our staff who are our most valuable resource and are supported with opportunities for education and personal development.

The Trust is committed to:

• Putting service users at the centre of our work
• Partnership and the need to work closely and in tandem with a whole range of individuals and organisations, including services users, carers and staff
• Promoting responsibility and accountability through devolving and empowering local management and clinical leadership
• Efficiency and the need to provide effective services
• Quality, providing services at the best level of quality within the resources available

Key details

Location

Site: Helston Community Hospital
Address: Meneage Road
Town: Helston
Postcode: TR13 8DR
Major / Minor Region: Cornwall

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To include evening and weekend working)

Salary

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 6)

Specialty

Main area: Adult community Services

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and clinically skilled nurse to work as a Band 6 Team Leader nurse to join our dynamic, friendly Community Nursing Team, based in Helston, Cornwall. The Team work alongside the Primary Care Network covering the South Kerrier area, including Helston and the beautiful Lizard Peninsula. This position involves managing and supporting a large busy team including staff working on the late shifts, visiting patients in their own homes and Urgent Care Response.

The successful candidate will also need to be able to work flexibly across the disciplines in South Kerrier in order to provide excellent clinical and management support.

Applications are invited from registered nurses who have some experience of working within the community setting and have experience working with patients with long-term conditions. Applicants must have the ability to work autonomously, whilst being a member of a team committed to excellence in patient care. If you have excellent clinical, people and organisational skills then we would welcome your application.

Proposed interview date: to be confirmed

Advert

As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients with complex health and social care needs. They will co-manage a clinical caseload within a community nursing team with guidance from the Community Nurse Team Leaders and Manager and Community Matron and ensure provision of a holistic nursing assessment and high quality, safe, evidence-based care to patients and carers with the aim of maintaining patients in their own homes.

The post holder will work in partnership with patients and carers and members of the multi-disciplinary team to offer support and advice and promote informed choice; maximising independence and optimising quality of life and will be required to provide clinical management and leadership to all staff within the team.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current professional registration – RN (Adult)
• Evidence of recent relevant professional development
• A degree in nursing

Skills and Aptitude

Essential criteria

• Leadership skills – able to motivate a range of staff, organise self and others, delegating and prioritising workload duties
• Conflict resolution skills
• IT skills to include use of word, excel, spreadsheets, email and internet access

Desirable criteria

• Advanced computer skills

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Paul Marston
Job title: Community Nurse Locality Team Lead
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07920 023386

Applicants welcome to make contact for any further information required and to visit the team if they wish.

Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time. Please refrain from sending the Trust CVs as this does not count as an introduction.