Nursing Team Manager

Friends of Fairford & Lechlade Communities; Lechlade; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A community care charity seeks a Nursing Team Manager to lead end-of-life care services for patients in Lechlade. The role involves strong leadership, administrative skills, and CQC management. Ideal candidates will have end-of-life care experience and a managerial background. Benefits include flexible working hours from home, with a salary of £25-£28 per hour based on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with end-of-life care.
• Managerial experience in healthcare.
• Good IT and administrative skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Nursing Team while maintaining high service standards.
• Be the Registered Named Manager with the CQC.
• Manage team performance and support training needs.

Skills

Leadership

End of life care experience

Administrative skills

IT skills

Education

Managerial Qualification

Registered Nurse and Health Care Professional

Job description

Go back Friends of Fairford & Lechlade Communities

Nursing Team Manager

The closing date is 14 November 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced health care professional to lead our Nursing Team. Our Nursing Team provide free end of life care to patients within our local community. The role is a managerial role requiring strong leadership, managerial skills, community values, end of life care experience and administration qualities. The Nursing Team Manager must also be the CQC Registered Manager for the service.

You will be required to work from home. We offer a flexible approach to working hours to meet the needs of the individual and the service.

To apply please send your CV and a covering letter to [e-mail]

The deadline for applications is Friday 14th November, 5pm.

Main duties of the job

We welcome applicants who are motivated, skilled and have the ability to build strong working relationships. Excellent communication and IT skills are essential. They will encourage and support strategic direction for the Nursing Team, ensuring the service meets the needs of our patients and local community. The successful candidate will work closely with our Nursing Co-ordinators as well as the Chair and General Manager of the Charity.

About us

We support the care and wellbeing of people who live in Fairford, Lechlade and the surrounding villages in Gloucestershire through a variety of services inc. Home Nursing - palliative home nursing, Patient Transport Services, taking patients to and from hospital or delivery prescriptions. We also run a Bereavement Cafe, Lunch Club for the isolated and elderly in the community.

Job responsibilities

Responsibilities and Duties:

To be the Registered Named Manager with the Care Quality Commission. Maintain managers awareness of requirements and processes of CQC, ensure safe storage of documentation, take part in CQC inspections including the preparation and PIR information, and take responsibility to report notifiable events to CQC.

Effectively and efficiently manage the running of the Nursing Team with the aim of always maintaining the highest standards and quality of our service. Responsible for clear, concise and informative communication throughout the Nursing Team. Developing, supporting and supervising Nursing Team members to ensure high standards are provided at all times, monitor practice and identify areas of good practice, as well as areas in need of development. Enable the Nursing Team to work safely in the community, offering high standards of performance and delivery of care to our patients and their families.

Chair and prepare the agenda, and any other relevant papers, for Nursing Team meetings. Organise a rota for the Nursing Team phone, to ensure cover is maximised. Work closely with Nursing Team Coordinators to ensure they are supported. Take Nursing Coordinator responsibility as per the required roster. Ensure Nursing Team timesheets are collated, submitted and overseen.

Promoting good practice and encouraging Nurses to be proactive with their training. Responsible for staff staying up to date with all mandatory training requirements. Conduct appraisals and follow up on training needs, monitoring Nursing Team performance and practice.

Responsible for distributing, updating, collating, filling and archiving notes, including care plans and Nurses files, ensuring documentation is stored for the appropriate timescale. Ensure compliance for all policies and procedures, relevant documentation and administration tasks are adhered to and reviewed in the required time frame. Responsible for audits throughout the Nursing Team, acting on results, positive or negative, and noting trends. Ensure all clinical incidents and problems are well documented, followed up and concluded. Raise any safeguarding issues with appropriate people www.friendsoffairford.org.uk

Ensure a high level of care is delivered through our service and maintain a good understanding of our patients and hands-on nursing requirements by making joint visits with nursing team members

Responsible for actively recruiting the necessary number of nursing team staff required. Deliver an induction programme and necessary training for all staff, providing supervision and support to ensure they are able, confident and proficient to perform their role to the best of their ability

Maintain the upkeep of Nursing Team storage facilities, including monitoring and ordering equipment and the disposal of unwanted goods

Regularly liaise and communicate with the General Manager to ensure clear, consistent and smooth organisation and delivery of the Nursing Team. Highlight notifiable events, and report on patient numbers, staffing, engagement, developmental ideas to the Board of Trustees, via the General Manager, or another nominated individual.

Liaise with relevant local or national organisations and service providers to aspire to, and share best practice, including District Nurses, Frailty Team and other referrers. Provide quarterly data to the ICB and attend their quarterly meetings.

Attend the Charitys AGM to deliver a prepared report on behalf of the Nursing Team.

Attend all training courses and meetings as directed by the Board of Trustees or General Manager, relaying relevant information to the Nursing Team.

Represent the Charity as an active, community organisation, ensuring actions and decisions reinforce the Charities core purpose. Ensure the Nursing Team is highly promoted and circulated regularly and widely, on social media. Support and promote the Charitys fundraisers and initiatives as directed by the Board of Trustees or General Manager to families, supporters and members of the Nursing Team.

Undertake any other appropriate and reasonable task within the scope of the job as directed by the Board of Trustees via the General Manager or another nominated individual

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working with end-of-life care
• Good IT and administrative skills
• Managerial Experience
• Knowledge of the importance of confidentiality
• Experience of working in the Community
• Experience in auditing
• Experience with CQC inspections
• Knowledge of our charity and the services we provide
• Managerial Qualification
• Knowledge of safeguarding in the Community

Qualifications

• Desirable - Registered Nurse and Health Care Professional
• Excellent verbal and written communication and
• interpersonal skills
• Self motivated, forward thinking, able to work on your
• own initiative, as well as part of a team
• Leads by example and inline with the charities values
• and behaviours
• Good organisational skills
• Good experience of writing care plans
• Networking abilities
• Able to prioritise, plan, meet deadlines, and review
• Able to take responsibility for your own and teams
• Able to interpret, implement and advise on procedural
• guidance from management and to issue appropriate
• instructions and advice to the team
• Able to deal with any situation which may give rise to
• conflict
• Able to maintain a calm manner in a crisis
• Able to initiate, develop and accept new ideas
• Patient, respectful, non-judgemental and caring
• manner
• Ability to lead, engage, motivate and support
• Medically fit to perform physical duties
• Proactive and innovative
• Able to keep up with change
• Committed to safeguarding
• Honest, reliable and supportive
• Ability to display empathy and warmth
• Sense of Humour
• Able to work from home
• Requirement to work unsocial hours
• Enhanced DBS clearance
• Able to travel within the local community and on
• occasion further, including, ad hoc events, relevant
• meetings, the charity AGM and training events

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.

Employer name

Friends of Fairford & Lechlade Communities

Depending on experience£25-£28 per hr based on experience. Band 7,8 and 8A