Lead Band 6 Community Nurse — Home Care Leadership

HCRG Care Group; Sittingbourne; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

My Reward Hub discounts

Wages accessed on demand

Wellbeing support services

Learning and development opportunities

Open, just culture

Tea, coffee and milk at base

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Band 6 Team Sister/Charge Nurse to lead a community nursing team in Sittingbourne. You will manage a defined caseload, provide clinical leadership, and coordinate care with GPs and social care teams to ensure safe, high-quality, patient-centred services.

You will hold current NMC registration, teaching qualifications, and at least 3 years' nursing experience, with strong IT, safeguarding and governance knowledge. Driving licence required.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration.
• Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• A minimum of 3 years' experience as a registered nurse.
• Experience within both community and acute or hospital-based settings.
• Experience supporting patients with long-term conditions and complex healthcare needs.
• Experience supervising, supporting or leading colleagues.
• Excellent clinical assessment and care-planning skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritise and manage a changing workload effectively.
• Good understanding of safeguarding, risk management and clinical governance.
• Strong IT skills, including electronic patient record systems.
• Ability to work autonomously and make sound clinical decisions.
• Commitment to delivering high-quality, person-centred care.
• Ideally, staff appraisals, clinical supervision, service improvement activities or leadership responsibilities within a community healthcare setting.
• Travel throughout the community; full UK driving licence and access to a car.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of patients with complex nursing and health needs within the community.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care plans to support positive patient outcomes.
• Support patients with long-term conditions, palliative and end-of-life care, wound management and other community nursing interventions.
• Participate in the triage of referrals and support effective allocation of visits according to clinical need.
• Provide clinical leadership and act as a role model for high standards of patient care.
• Support the Senior Sister with the day-to-day operational running of the service.
• Lead, supervise and support junior colleagues and students to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence.
• Participate in staff development, supervision, appraisals and competency assessment.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, social care teams, specialist nurses and wider multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Promote patient safety through effective risk assessment, safeguarding practice and clinical decision-making.
• Contribute to quality improvement, service development, audit and clinical governance activities.
• Maintain accurate and timely patient records using electronic systems.
• Support the delivery of evidence-based practice and high-quality care across the team.
• Participate in the service's 7-day working arrangements, including weekends and bank holidays.

Skills

Communication

Clinical assessment

Decision-making

Leadership

IT skills

Education

NMC Registration

Teaching & Assessing qualification

Job description

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Band 6 Team Sister/Charge Nurse to lead a community nursing team in Sittingbourne. You will manage a defined caseload, provide clinical leadership, and coordinate care with GPs and social care teams to ensure safe, high-quality, patient-centred services.

You will hold current NMC registration, teaching qualifications, and at least 3 years' nursing experience, with strong IT, safeguarding and governance knowledge. Driving licence required.