PCN Enhanced Team Lead

NHS; Thrapston; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare trust in Thrapston seeks a PCN Enhanced Team Lead to manage community nursing initiatives and contribute to service development. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in community nursing or primary care, and a passion for improving health outcomes. Responsibilities include overseeing a small team and implementing innovative healthcare practices.

Benefits

Extensive training and development program

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in leading and managing a team.
• 2 years post-qualification experience in Community Nursing or Primary Care at band 6 level.
• Knowledge of change management tools and HR policies.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and manage health needs in patients' homes.
• Lead a small team with service coordination and performance improvement.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of policies.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal communication

Ability to work autonomously

Understanding of public health issues

Education

Post-registration accredited clinical specialist course

Accredited qualification in leadership or management

Relevant postgraduate study at masters level

Tools

IT software for report/document creation

Job description

Go back Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

PCN Enhanced Team Lead

The closing date is 03 October 2025

An exciting development opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Community Nurse in a new service that bridges Primary Care and Community Nursing in East Northants PCN .

This initiative aims to proactively identify and manage health needs, reduce health inequalities, and deliver tailored interventions directly in patients' homes. By focusing on early identification, prevention, and long-term condition management, the service will enhance patient outcomes, reduce practice appointments, reduce hospital admissions, and support the broader goals of integrated community care and neighborhood working.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate significant experience in the field of Community Nursing or Primary Care, together with a genuine desire to develop both the service and yourself.

They will use their management experience to lead on service changes and developments and contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.

They will lead a small team, with involvement in service coordination, staff wellbeing, supervision, governance and service performance and improvement.

Main duties of the job

This initiative aims to proactively identify and manage health needs, reduce health inequalities, and deliver tailored interventions directly in patients' homes. By focusing on early identification, prevention, and long-term condition management, the service will enhance patient outcomes, reduce practice appointments, reduce hospital admissions, and support the broader goals of integrated community care and neighborhood working.

You will be expected to see patients within a given geographic area and may mean that you will need to liaise with a variety of GP surgeries.

As both an organisation and a service we are actively involved both local and national innovative projects around improving quality of care, integrated working with stakeholders, designing new pathways. We have an extensive program of training and skills development available for staff and actively nominate and encourage our staff to apply for national awards and recognition, such as Queen's Nursing Institute, RCN and Nursing Times awards.

Car owner/driver and current driving license essential or access to a car (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Qualification

• At least one post registration relevant accredited clinical specialist course at degree level completed in the last 2 years e.g. CHD, Diabetes, Respiratory conditions, minor illness and minor injury.
• Nurse prescriber or working towards this.
• Accredited qualification in leadership or managment.
• Complex Case Management (LTC) qualification or experience in actively managing a caseload of patients with LTCs
• Relevant postgraduate study at masters level

Experience / Knowledge

• Demonstrable experience in leading and management a team.
• 2 year post qualification experience in Community Nursing or Primary Care at at least band 6 level
• Required to record patient related information both electronically and in the written form, both in an office base and the patient's home.
• Working with community development initiatives
• Knowledge of change management tools and able to demonstrate ability to influence change and affecting change through others.
• Demonstrated in the application form knowledge of HR policy and process
• Evidence of inputting into the patient held record.

Skills

• Indicates an understanding of individual values, and how they impact day to day working practices.
• Shows aptitude for the use of range of IT software (capable of producing reports/documents/presentations as appropriate).
• Able to identify determinants on health in the area, knowledge of public health issues
• Able to work in fast paced environments.
• Demonstrates aptitude to work autonomously as well as part of a team.

Communication

• Excellent interpersonal and intrapersonal communication skills
• Approachable and accessible.
• Able to challenge appropriately.
• Has an appreciation of different styles of communication.
• Effective and clear communication skills across all levels both internally and externally.

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.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust