Community Nurse Team Leader

NHS; Torquay; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Torquay is seeking a dedicated Community Nurse Team Leader to provide high-quality, individualized patient care. The role involves working autonomously and delivering care to housebound patients in partnership with primary and secondary care teams. Candidates must be a qualified Registered Nurse Level 1, possess strong leadership skills, and demonstrate the ability to make sound clinical judgments. Join a supportive and flexible team committed to enhancing patients' quality of life.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leadership skills.
• Able to work as an autonomous practitioner.
• Evidence of ongoing training and development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality care to housebound patients.
• Provide specialist clinical advice to multi-disciplinary team.
• Conduct assessments of patient needs in the community.
• Advise and instruct carers on health and wellbeing issues.
• Carry out complex nursing assessments and medication reviews.
• Support staff supervision and management.

Skills

Leadership skills

I.T. knowledge/experience

Clinical judgement and decision making

Education

Qualified Registered Nurse Level 1

Job description

Go back Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Community Nurse Team Leader

The closing date is 28 December 2025

If you are passionate about providing high quality individualised patient care, enthusiastic about supporting patients' rehabilitation and increasing their independence and quality of life we would like to hear from you.

You will provide holistic nursing assessment, high quality care, support, advice, and information to patients and carers with the aim of maintaining patients in their own homes, enabling them to enjoy maximum independence and optimum quality of life.

Ensure the effective co‑ordination and provision of the nursing service in the absence of the Zone Nurse Lead and to actively participate in the planning and discharge of complex patients from secondary to primary care.

Working across the Intermediate care and community nursing teams to provide crisis response nursing interventions, assessment, liaison, referral, co‑ordination, delegation of care, or placement in order to prevent hospital admissions. Role requires driving licence as community based.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver high quality care to the housebound patients and work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team and in partnership with primary care and secondary care.
• To provide specialist clinical advice to the multi‑disciplinary team.
• To provide initial and ongoing assessment of nursing needs of patients and carers in the community. When planning a programme of care, physical, social and emotional and cultural factors are taken into consideration and suitably qualified staff used to facilitate the level of care agreed.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner in the planning and implementation of nursing treatment programmes.
• To advise and instruct carers and patients on health and wellbeing issues, and self‑care strategies.
• To carry out specialist and shared complex nursing assessments, including continuing health care, medication review, prescribing and palliative care.
• To utilise a broad range of specialised nursing skills and knowledge aligning practice to the organisations Medicines Policy for Registered professionals and the NMC Standards for Medicines management (2007) ensuring assessment and competence is maintained and recorded as a nurse prescriber.
• Supporting the Zone Lead with staff supervision, appraisal’s and sickness management.

About us

Torquay community nursing are a large but supportive team who enjoys mentoring team members and students and is passionate about delivering quality care to the housebound patients.

We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality. We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a health work/home life balance.

Why Work With Us

Job responsibilities

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

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Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Qualified Registered Nurse Level 1

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven experience in leadership skills.
• Able to work as an autonomous practitioner.
• Evidence of on‑going training and development.>

Specific Skills

• Ability to make sound clinical judgements and decisions in response to complex or crisis situations.
• I.T. knowledge/experience.

Requirements due to work environment/ conditions

• Ability to cope with an ever‑changing structure of the NHS, i.e. Health & Social Care.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust