Lead Specialist Practitioner (Community Nursing)

NHS; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a clinical leader to deliver comprehensive nursing care to service users with complex health needs. The role involves managing caseloads, supporting staff development, and ensuring effective interdisciplinary collaboration. Candidates must possess a post-graduate qualification in nursing and strong clinical skills. This is a flexible position with opportunities for professional growth and excellent benefits, including a generous pension scheme and leave options.

Benefits

Excellent NHS Pension scheme

Options for flexible working

Up to 27 days annual leave

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Free flu vaccination

Health and Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Strong clinical leadership and ability to challenge practice.
• Competent across various areas including wound care and end-of-life care.
• Experience in managing complex healthcare needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care for complex physical, psychological, and social needs.
• Manage and co-ordinate a caseload with complex health needs.
• Collaborate with clinical education leads for training and mentorship.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Assessment skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Interpersonal skills

Nursing clinical skills

Education

Post-graduate qualification in nursing

Job description

Job Summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Manage and co‑ordinate a caseload of service users with complex physical health needs that require multi‑systems health assessment, including coordination of MDT meetings.
• Work closely with the service users, their carers and families to ensure they have the tools to manage and monitor their own condition, with robust management plans in place to recognise deterioration and access appropriate care.
• Act as a key stakeholder working with system partners to ensure the physical health needs of the population are met and to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital.
• Collaborate with the Clinical Education Lead to develop training and practice; provide support, mentorship and assessment of pre and post‑registration nurses, including induction and preceptorship of new staff.
• Provide consistent collaborative clinical leadership to the team with Community Education Leads across the care group, embedding a learning culture underpinned by evidence‑based practice.
• Lead in specialist areas and complex caseload management, providing advice and support to others to undertake community nursing care, including but not limited to:
  • Promoting independence/self‑management
  • Maintaining safety including safeguarding awareness/incident reporting
  • Improving health and wellbeing including mental health
  • Interventions in disease/condition management
  • Prevention and reduction of health inequalities
  • Admission avoidance including frequent users of acute services
  • Supported early discharge from hospital (appropriate to the service)
  • Case management/treatment/care plans
  • Palliative and end‑of‑life care
  • Complex decision making
  • Management of complex wounds
• 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.
• Monitor the skill mix in the team to enable safe delegation of nursing care in line with NMC guidance; support effective workforce planning with the operational lead.
• Participate in service developments as a member of the community nursing team and wider primary care network, and act as a key stakeholder in developing place‑based partnership working.
• Oversee the caseload to improve the quality of care for patients, ensuring this is driven by patient outcomes and feedback and evidence‑based clinical practice that supports the national quality agenda.
• Collaborate with Operational and General Managers to provide clinical expertise and decision‑making support as part of the leadership team to ensure best practice and patient safety are maintained.
• Make efficient use of resources and consider cost‑effectiveness when developing treatment plans and prescribing medication; there is no responsibility for finances.

Person Specification

• Qualifications
  • Post‑graduate qualification in nursing related subject and evidence of further education, training and development in the role.
• Skills
  • Advanced clinical, theoretical and practical knowledge across a range of work procedures relevant but not limited to a specified clinical area.

Benefits

• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
• 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)

Details

Date posted: 15 October 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year PA

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full‑time, Part‑time

Reference number: 301‑VA‑25‑7539996

Job locations: Anglesey House, Burton on Trent, DE14 3NT

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

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer Details

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Anglesey House
Burton on Trent
DE14 3NT

Employer's website: https://www.mpft.nhs.uk