District Team Leader

NHS; Preston; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare foundation trust in Preston is seeking a District Team Leader to join their Community District Nursing Services. This exciting opportunity requires leadership in providing high-quality nursing care to patients at home, managing a defined caseload, and fostering reflective practice within the team. Candidates should have significant experience post-RGN registration and be knowledgeable in clinical governance and palliative care. This role offers both part-time and full-time contracts and flexibility in work arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Professional development support

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of post-RGN registration experience is required.
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and Standards for Better Health agenda is essential.
• Palliative Care knowledge and experience managing long term conditions are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership to a District Nursing Team.
• Assume responsibility for managing a defined caseload.
• Offer clinical leadership for evidence-based nursing care.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Governance knowledge

Palliative Care expertise

Experience with long term medical conditions

Education

RGN registration

Job description

Go back Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

District Team Leader

The closing date is 08 December 2025

Part Time (30 hours) and Full Time (37.50 hours) Vacancies available at:

Fulwood Park Clinic - PR2 8JB

This is an exciting time to join our Community District Nursing Services as Community Specialist Practitioner within the Central locality in two locations across our footprint (Chorley, South Ribble and Preston). If you are looking for a new challenge, are passionate about delivering the very best high quality, safe, effective care in a high performing NHS Foundation Trust then this maybe the opportunity you have been waiting for.

We are looking for motivated and qualified staff with the Specialist Practitioner Qualification, who will be a part of developing and driving our integrated approach to care, so that we can fully embrace and utilise theses benefits to provide the best outcomes for our patients.

As part of LSCFT you will be supported to professionally develop and encouraged to continuously learn whilst considering new ways of working. The Community Specialist Practitioner will be a key member of the senior nursing and leadership team, responsible for providing the very best care to the patients in their own homes. In addition you will be part of leading a team who are patient focused with excellence at its core, maintaining and improving professional standards and developments of the future workforce.

For further information about these roles and/or informal chat or visit please contact us using the details provided

Main duties of the job

Applicants will need to demonstrate their competency and experience in line with the person specification and will be required to work flexibly across a seven day rota.

To provide professional leadership to a District Nursing Team and to facilitate a culture of learning and reflective practice within that team.

To assume continuous responsibility for appropriate deployment and supervision of staff for the effective management of a defined caseload.

To provide clinical leadership in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of high quality evidence based nursing care to patients in their own homes and other community settings, to ensure that the care needs of the caseload are met.

To provide direct clinical care to patients with identified specialist or complex needs.

To work to a defined shift pattern with a service responsible for the provision of care 24/7 365 days per year.

About us

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask. We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services. LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 year post RGN registration experience

Knowledge

• Understanding of Clinical Governance / Standards for Better Health agenda
• Palliative Care
• Knowledge and experience of managing long term medical conditions

Experience

• Managerial / Leadership experience
• Recruitment and selection experience
• Experience of conducting Appraisal / performance reviews