Team Sister

HCRG Care Group; Dartford; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

My Reward Hub

Wages on Demand

Wellbeing Support

Learning & Development

Inclusive Culture

Good/Outstanding ratings

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Band 6 Team Sister to lead a community nursing service, delivering high-quality care in patients’ homes and local settings. You will oversee complex cases, coordinate care with GPs and multidisciplinary teams, and drive service improvements to ensure timely, appropriate care.

You will mentor junior staff, support clinical governance, and maintain robust patient records while upholding NHS values and standards across the team.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience in community nursing or district nursing.
• Experience managing patients with complex health needs.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or supporting staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined complex community nursing caseload.
• Deliver clinical assessment, care planning and evaluation.
• Support patients with long-term conditions and frailty.
• Provide wound and end-of-life care.
• Coordinate interventions and promote patient independence.
• Supervise and develop junior nursing colleagues.
• Contribute to clinical governance and service improvement.
• Maintain accurate patient records.

Skills

NMC Registered Nurse

Clinical Leadership

Wound Care

Autonomous Working

Communication Skills

IT Skills

Education

Degree in Nursing

Driving Licence

Tools

Electronic Patient Records

MS Office

Job description

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As a Band 6 Team Sister, you will play a key role within our Community Nursing Service, providing both clinical and operational leadership to support patients with complex health needs within their own homes and local communities. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated nurse who is passionate about delivering high-quality community care. You will manage a varied caseload, working with patients requiring support with wound care, long-term conditions, end of life care and complex clinical interventions. Using your clinical expertise and leadership skills, you will help ensure patients receive the right care, at the right time, from the right professional. You will work closely with the Senior Sister and wider multidisciplinary team, supporting colleagues, driving service improvements and helping to develop a culture of continuous learning and high-quality patient care.

Package Description

You will be joining a supportive and experienced community nursing team that is committed to delivering outstanding care closer to home. The team works collaboratively to provide holistic, patient-centred care while supporting professional development, innovation and clinical excellence. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your leadership skills while continuing to maintain a strong clinical focus. As part of HCRG Care Group, you will receive:

• NHS Agenda for Change Band 6 salary with an NHS pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases, plus cashback and voucher offers for treats and essentials
• Access to your wages as you earn them, helping cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest borrowing
• Online and in-person wellbeing support, including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
• Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and professional development opportunities through our ‘Outstanding’ Learning Enterprise team
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to contribute ideas, backed by ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation where the majority of our rated services hold ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities

As a Team Sister, you will manage a defined nursing caseload, delivering and coordinating care for patients with a range of complex and long-term health conditions. You will undertake comprehensive assessments, develop personalised care plans and ensure care is regularly reviewed to meet changing patient needs. You will provide clinical leadership within the team, supporting the Senior Sister with service delivery, triage processes, caseload management and workforce development. You will act as a role model for best practice, supporting colleagues through mentorship, supervision and clinical guidance while promoting a positive and supportive team culture. Working closely with patients, carers, GPs, specialist teams, social care professionals and partner organisations, you will help ensure seamless and coordinated care that improves patient outcomes and promotes independence. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing a complex community nursing caseload
• Delivering high-quality clinical assessment, care planning and evaluation
• Supporting patients with long-term conditions, frailty and complex health needs
• Delivering and coordinating interventions including wound care, end of life care and unscheduled care
• Supporting admission avoidance and promoting patient independence
• Participating in referral triage and caseload allocation
• Supervising, supporting and developing junior nursing colleagues
• Contributing to clinical governance, audit and service improvement initiatives
• Building strong relationships with multidisciplinary and partner organisations
• Maintaining accurate and timely patient records

Person Specification

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Evidence of post-registration professional development
• Experience working within community nursing, district nursing or a similar clinical setting
• Experience managing patients with complex health needs and long-term conditions
• Experience supervising, mentoring or supporting other staff members
• Excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills
• Strong communication, leadership and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work autonomously and effectively manage a varied workload
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Good IT skills, including electronic patient record systems and Microsoft Office
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
• Degree level qualification or working towards one
• Teaching, mentorship or assessing qualification
• Independent Prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake further development
• Experience conducting appraisals, clinical supervision or leadership responsibilities
• Experience contributing to service development, quality improvement or audit projects
• Knowledge of community nursing pathways, clinical governance and integrated care services

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.