Lead Specialist Practitioner (Community Nursing)

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Burton upon Trent; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A public healthcare organization in Burton upon Trent is seeking a Lead Specialist Practitioner in Community Nursing. The role involves providing clinical leadership, managing a caseload of service users with complex needs, and mentoring nursing staff. Ideal candidates will have advanced clinical knowledge and experience in community care. Supportive environment with opportunities for career development and flexible working options.

Benefits

Up to 27 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Free car parking

Health and Wellbeing support

Annual flu vaccinations

Qualifications

• Provide strong clinical leadership and support effective care.
• Utilise enhanced assessment skills in decision-making.
• Demonstrate competence in core community nursing skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide face-to-face nursing care for housebound service users.
• Manage complex caseloads requiring multi-disciplinary coordination.
• Foster relationships with internal and external partners.

Skills

Strong clinical leadership

Communication skills

Wound care

End of life care

Diabetes management

Medication administration

Education

Post graduate qualification in nursing

Job description

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Specialist Practitioner (Community Nursing)

The closing date is 29 October 2025

We are looking for applicants who can provide strong clinical leadership and support safe and effective care for service users.

The post holder will utilise their enhanced assessment skills to support decision-making and be competent and confident across areas of practice that include but are not limited to wound care, end of life care, prescribing, diabetes management, and medication administration.

The post holder will work closely with the Operational Team and other senior nurses in the team to share responsibility for organising the day-to-day running of the caseload, managing emerging risks, supporting effective reporting and governance and agreeing service transformation priorities.

The post holder will support staff development in the service by providing mentorship and supervision to pre and post registered nurses.

You will need to be highly motivated and enthusiastic, have excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills and an ability to challenge practice as needed. You will be able to demonstrate competence in core community nursing clinical skills and a willingness to learn and share knowledge.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be those one who is keen and willing to work within Community Nursing service delivery model and develop the role further to support our teams. You will be expected to foster good relationships with both internal and external partners, along with other members of the MDT.

Oversight of the running of the District/Community Nursing caseload and development of staff within the team, working alongside the Operational Lead/Manager and Education Lead.

They will provide enhanced holistic nursing care to housebound service users utilising enhanced assessment skills; decision making; prescribing and freedom to act as a Specialist Practitioner.

Being a senior member of the community nursing team they will share clinical knowledge, expertise and advice and provide mentorship and supervision to pre and post-registration nurses in the community nursing team.

Working closely with other MPFT services and external partners to support the development and delivery of effective care pathways. Supporting the delivery of place based care within the attached locality.

To contribute to service/policy development through active membership on working parties or professional forums. To be aware of national and local policy that impacts upon the health and wellbeing of service users.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by

Supporting your career development and progression.

Options for flexible working

Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.

Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources

If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.

Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate

Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates

Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k

Free car parking at all trust sites

Free flu vaccination every year

Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job responsibilities

• To provide face to face nursing care, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care and treatment for housebound service users with complex physical, psychological and social needs.
• Managing and co-ordinating a caseload of service users with complex physical health needs that require multi-systems health assessment; have multiple co-morbidities and may have social and mental health needs that influence their treatment plans. This may at times include co-ordination of MDT meetings.
• To work closely with the service users, their carers and families ensuring that they have the tools to manage and monitor their own condition where appropriate and have robust management plans in place to recognise deterioration and access appropriate care.
• Have an understanding of the demographics and population profile of their attached PCN/locality. Acting as a key stakeholder working with system partners to ensure the physical health needs of the population are met and work to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital.
• Collaborate with the Clinical Education Lead in developing training and practice. Providing support, mentorship and assessment of pre and post-registration nurses within the team, to develop their competence and skills. Including induction and preceptorship of new staff.
• Provide consistency through collaborative clinical leadership to their team with Community Education Leads across the care group. Embedding a learning culture underpinned evidence based practice.
• Takes a lead in specialist areas and complex caseload management, providing advice and support to others to undertake community nursing care, including but not limited to:
• Maintaining safety including/safeguarding awareness/incident reporting
• Improvement in health and wellbeing including mental health
• Interventions in disease/condition management
• Prevention and reducing of health inequalities
• Admission avoidance including frequently users of acute services
• Supported early discharge from hospital (appropriate to the service)
• Palliative and end of life care
• Complex decision making
• Management of complex wounds
• Will utilise a range of available and emerging technology to support the service user to manage and monitor their condition; including virtual consultations and remote monitoring.
• To monitor the skill mix in the team to enable safe delegation of nursing care in line with NMC guidance. Working closely with the operational lead for the team to support effective workforce planning.
• The post holder will participate in service developments as a member of the community nursing team and wider primary care network, and will be a key stakeholder in the development of place based partnership working.
• Oversee the caseload to improve the quality of care for patients, ensuring that this is driven by patient outcomes and feedback; evidence based clinical practice that supports the national quality agenda. Ensuring actions of the caseload review process are carried out.
• Work in collaboration with Operational and General Managers providing clinical expertise and decision making support as part of the leadership team to ensure best practice and patient safety are be maintained.
• There will be no responsibility for finances other than to make efficient use of resources and to consider cost effectiveness when developing treatment plans and prescribing medication.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post graduate qualification in nursing related subject and evidence of further education, training and development in role

Skills

• Advanced clinical, theoretical and practical knowledge across a range of work procedures relevant but not limited to a specified clinical area

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.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust