District Nurse Team Lead / Community Nursing Team Lead- SDH&CNHS AfC : Band 7

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Leatherhead seeks a Band 7 Community Nursing Team Lead. This full-time position involves leading a community nursing team, ensuring quality care, and managing educational programs. Key qualifications include NMC registration and experience in nurse leadership. The role emphasizes collaborative care and professional integrity in alignment with health standards. Opportunities for further learning and development are offered within the supportive environment.

Benefits

Opportunities for further learning

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• NMC Registration and Nurse prescribing qualification appropriate to role are essential.
• Experience of nurse leadership and management required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a community nursing team delivering high-quality care.
• Ensure professional standards and contribute to clinical governance and risk management.

Skills

Critical analysis skills

Conflict resolution

IT skills

Education

NMC Registration

Educated to Level 6

Nurse prescribing qualification

Advanced physical assessment course

Teaching Qualification

Job description

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to join the Leatherhead PCN team as a Band 7 Community Nursing Team lead on a full-time (37.5 hours / week), permanent basis.

The successful candidate would be welcomed into an established community nurse team who work closely with members of the wider multidisciplinary team across the PCN and across Surrey Downs Health and Care.

We have a strong focus on staff support and development, encouraging opportunities for further learning.

In short if you are looking for an employer that is working to remove traditional boundaries and barriers, bringing care to patients when and where they need it, and you want to work alongside motivated, passionate and visionary colleagues we look forward to hearing from you.

Surrey Downs Health & Care

Main duties of the job

Summary of both Band 7 roles for Leatherhead PCN. The District Nurse Team Lead and Community Nursing Team Lead roles within Surrey Downs Health and Care (SDHC) are both Band 7 leadership positions responsible for delivering high-quality, person-centered care in the community. Each role involves leading and managing a community nursing team, overseeing the assessment, planning, and implementation of care, ensuring staff development, maintaining professional standards, and contributing to clinical governance and risk management strategies. Both positions are identical in core duties—promoting integrated care, supporting workforce planning, change management, managing resources, and participating in KPIs and audits. Both roles emphasize respect, collaboration, safeguarding, and high delivery of care to patients and staff.

To provide leadership within the District Nursing Team and be responsible for the assessment of needs of the patient and the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of care within agreed standards.

The post holder will undertake facilitation of educational programmes for basic, post basic and in-service training, in close liaison with the Learning and Development Team.

To lead and facilitate patient focused, innovative research based practice, in line with Surrey Downs Health and Care objectives.

Working for our organisation

Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes :

• The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
• Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey Council County

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.

It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.

In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Demonstrate clinical expertise and act as a professional role model to all staff, both internal and external on behalf of Surrey Downs Health and Care, working as part of a team taking the lead and developing services in line with the needs of the patient
• Treat all patients as individuals, respecting their privacy and dignity at all times
• Be accountable for assessments and care planning, and prescribing appropriately for the patient group Involving, supporting, informing and educating family / carers
• Promote the health of patients and the provision of support and advice Be responsible for planning cover, appropriate staffing and skill mix ensuring adequate cover at all times
• Provide specialist knowledge advice to influence the Surrey Downs Health and Care strategic agenda
• Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records according to procedures
• Identify workforce planning issues and actively participate in the recruitment, selection and retention of clinical staff
• Provide support and an appropriate learning environment for both pre and post registration students as required
• Be responsible for ensuring that policies and procedures and standards of care, are adhered to at all times
• Manage effectively and efficiently any budget that is within the remit of this post
• Participate in research and development opportunities as appropriate
• Provide assistance with the resolution of complaints within the clinical specialty, or sphere of responsibility
• Have the ability to negotiate and work effectively across all agencies for the maximum effectiveness of care
• Be aware of and act upon when necessary, procedures that are in place to protect vulnerable individuals
• Lead and implement the SDH&C Clinical Governance Strategy within your practice area, facilitating and instigating clinical audit and monitoring of care
• Lead and implement the SDH&C Risk Management Strategy within your practice area, ensuring that all processes are adhered to Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines
• Undertake any other such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the post
• Be responsible for individual timely data entry and responsible for the corporate teams data entry
• This post holder is employed to work within Surrey Downs Health and Care localities and may be reasonably requested to move base temporarily or on a more permanent basis, as requested by service needs

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC Registration
• Educated to Level 6
• Nurse prescribing qualification appropriate to role
• Advanced physical assessment course / District Nurse qualification
• Evidence of continued professional development, with courses relevant to area of work
• Teaching Qualification

Desirable criteria

• Management qualification / courses and / or willingness to work towards

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experienced mentor at pre and post registration level
• Experience of nurse leadership and management
• Experience of appraisal and clinical supervision

Desirable criteria

• Experience of developing strategies, clinical guidelines and policies

Skills

Essential criteria

• Critical analysis skills
• Ability to assess and deliver, evaluate and benchmark quality care
• Ability to deal with conflict in a professional manner
• IT skills and timely data entry

Desirable criteria

• Project management skills

Other

Essential criteria

• Car owner with clean UK Licence

Desirable criteria

• Innovative and flexible
• Team player

Application

Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References

You will be required to provide 3 years of employment / educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date

In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting

You will only be contacted via e-mail / SMS if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS

We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: George Hilditch Job title: Leatherhead Operational Manager Email address: Telephone number: 07917 233266