Operational Team Lead

NHS; Armagh; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Community Nursing Lead to provide operational support across community nursing teams. The ideal candidate will manage staff, lead investigations, and ensure high-quality patient care. Qualifications include a Level 1 Nurse registration and relevant clinical skills. This position emphasizes leadership and promotes career development within a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Level 1 Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council registration.
• Evidence of recent continuing professional development relevant to Community Nursing.
• Broad range of clinical skills including Compression Bandaging, Dopplers, Fortec Venepuncture.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational support across community nursing.
• Manage staffing including sickness and appraisals.
• Lead incident investigations and support team development.

Skills

Clinical skills relevant to community nursing

Managing conflicting workloads

Teaching and supervising techniques

Database and IT programme usage

Education

Registered Level 1 Nurse

Continuing professional development

Job description

Overview

• Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your leadership skills in your career?
• Do you want to develop your career within a clinically led organisation, at the forefront of the revolution of adult community nursing?
• Are you passionate for high quality patient care and experience?

This unique position offers you the opportunity to work with the Clinical Lead to support the delivery of a safe and high quality community nursing service in a defined locality working alongside the District Nurse to effectively manage the Community Nursing team.

We use electronic clinical records through EMIS and a work IPad and IPhone will be provided.

Responsibilities

The post holder will provide operational support across Guildford and Waverley Community nursing, working with District Nurses and Clinical Leads to manage staffing including sickness, formal reviews and appraisals. You will manage the off duty for Guildford and Waverley, ensuring a safe service. You will also lead on Datix and incident investigations delegated from the Clinical Lead. You will provide highly visible leadership to the Community Nursing team and support with staff development.

The role will be 40% clinical and 60% management. Post holders will be available to work Monday to Sunday between 8am and 8pm. A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post; reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

About the role and requirements

Procare Community Services are not a UKVI sponsoring organisation, so all candidates are required to have their own independent right to work. Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification to understand more about the opportunity this role presents you.

About us

The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.

With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.

We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.

Details

Date posted: 17 October 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £50,008 to £56,908 a year Per Annum Pro Rata inc. HCAS

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 067- RD- OPSLEADWAVERLEY

Job locations: Milford Hospital, Tuesley Lane, Milford, GU7 1UF

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for specific details of this role and its responsibilities.

Key duties

The post holder will ensure that patients, services users, families, and carers have a positive safe and high-quality experience when accessing and receiving care, treatment, advice and support from Procare employees and will ensure learning is shared and embedded in situations where things did not go as well as they should have. Patients are the most important people in the health service and are at the centre of primary and community health care services. As patients and carers are the experts in how they feel and what it is like to live with or care for someone with an illness or condition, all Procare employees are guided by real experience of our services to guide quality and service improvements.

Person Specification

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Level 1 Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
• Assessor / NMC Supervisor / Mentorship
• Evidence of recent continuing professional development relevant to Community Nursing

Desirable

• Clinical Supervisor
• Professional Nurse Advocate
• Completion of DN SPQ

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Broad range of clinical skills relevant to community nursing, including but not limited to Compression Bandaging, Dopplers, Venepuncture, Male & Suprapubic Catheter, Syringe drivers and Palliative care symptom management
• Experience prioritising conflicting workloads and demands
• Ability to teach and supervise students and colleagues using varied techniques including presentations
• Able to demonstrate experience of managing people, undertaking appraisals, investigations, formal and informal reviews, supporting staff through HR processes
• Able to use databases and other IT programmes, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Emails, Virtual Meeting platforms
• A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post, however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010

Desirable

• Demonstrable evidence of service improvement / implementing local change following audit / policy / research / service evaluation
• Project / Quality Improvement planning skills

Compliance

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

Employer name: Procare Community Services

Address: Milford Hospital, Tuesley Lane, Milford, GU7 1UF

Employer's website: https://www.procarehealth.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)