Community Nursing Lead - Cheltenham

The Methodist Church in Britain; Warmley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

The Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Nursing Lead for the Cheltenham Integrated Community Team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will clinically lead and supervise a community nursing team, delivering direct and indirect patient care while monitoring quality through data and audits.

The role sits in a peer group with physiotherapy and occupational therapy and includes on-call duties.

Qualifications

• Post-registration community nursing experience.
• Relevant occupational qualification.
• Registration with NMC required.
• Experience in clinical team leadership and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Clinically lead, supervise and manage a community nursing team, working alongside them daily in direct and indirect patient care.
• Maintain and improve quality, monitoring standards using data, audits and reports.
• Identify service development and system opportunities with partners across health, social care and community networks.
• Build key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote and develop community nursing services.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Supervision

Quality monitoring

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor level degree (Degree 6) or diploma

Extended skills qualification (District Nurse SPQ)

Tools

S1 electronic patient record

Job description

The Community Nursing Lead sits within the Cheltenham Integrated Community Team at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The post clinically leads and supervises a community nursing team, combining direct and indirect patient care with quality monitoring through data and audit. It sits within a peer group spanning community nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, and carries on-call duties. Fit rests on NMC registration and the District Nurse SPQ.

What the job involves

• Clinically lead, supervise and manage a community nursing team, working alongside them daily in direct and indirect patient care
• Maintain and improve quality, monitoring standards using data, audits and reports
• Identify service development and system opportunities with partners across health, social care and community networks
• Build key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote and develop community nursing services

What’s required

Qualifications

• Relevant occupational qualification
• Degree (level 6) or diploma equivalent
• Extended skills qualification relevant to the discipline, such as the District Nurse SPQ

Registration & licences

• NMC registration

Experience

• Post-registration community nursing experience
• Clinical team leadership, including professional and clinical supervision of staff at various levels

Other

• Able to complete all statutory and mandatory training
• Able to undertake physical interventions, assessed by Occupational Health
• Disclose in writing any relationship to a Trust governor when applying

Nice to have

• Recognised teaching and assessment or mentoring qualification
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Use of an electronic clinical recording system, such as S1

What’s offered

• Support to relocate under the Trust's relocation policy