Service Manager for Community Nursing in Milton Keynes

We are looking for an experienced Service Manager to lead our Community Nursing Service, ensuring high-quality, safe, and person-centred care across the community. You will provide strong operational leadership, manage workforce and resources, and drive service performance and improvement. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams and partners, you will play a key role in shaping and developing community nursing services.

You will have:

• Proven leadership and management experience
• Strong understanding and experience of community nursing or community health services
• Ability to manage performance, staffing, and budgets
• Excellent communication and organisational skills

We offer:

• A rewarding leadership role with real impact
• Supportive working environment
• Opportunities for development and progression

If you’re passionate about community nursing and ready to lead, we’d love to hear from you.

The Senior Manager, Community Nursing Services, provides strategic and operational leadership for the delivery of high-quality, safe, and person-centred community nursing care. The role is responsible for overseeing service planning, performance, workforce capability, and continuous improvement across community nursing teams, ensuring services are responsive to population needs and aligned with organisational goals, clinical governance standards, and regulatory requirements.

This position leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver effective care in community settings, promotes best practice and innovation, and ensures optimal use of resources to achieve sustainable, efficient service delivery. The Senior Manager plays a key role in stakeholder engagement, service development, and change management, supporting improved health outcomes and positive patient, family, and staff experiences.

The post holder will have responsibility for leading and managing the Community Nursing Service provision in Milton Keynes. To line manage staff, from varying backgrounds, both clinical and non-clinical, ensuring that individual staff performance, appraisal and development is robustly undertaken to optimise both individual and organisational performance and that all staff have access to continuing professional education and development to maximise performance.

To ensure staffing levels and skill mix fully and effectively meet the needs of the services, within financial constraints. To ensure that services are continually monitored, viewed and adapted to meet changing need and identified commissioning requirements. To support teams to perform effectively in-service delivery and ensure effective positive communication, promoting both multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.

To work alongside key colleagues to develop appropriate and constructive relationships both within and external to the organisation within service improvements. To work with the Head of Quality Governance and implement systems and processes to manage risk and ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures within the specific services.

Develop robust communication systems, building strong links between Community Nursing, Social Care, Home Care and Home First. Act as a point of contact and support for GP practices and PCNs. Lead change management in the implementation of service development strategies. To work within a framework of continuous improvement.

Qualifications and Training:

• Registered Health Care Professional – RGN or Allied Health Professional (HCPC)
• Educated to master’s degree level (or working towards) or equivalent experience
• Registered General Nurse with experience working in Community and District Nursing

Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience in management of community health services, at a middle management level in a health or social care organisation.
• Proven experience of managing a multi-disciplinary team including senior managers and clinicians
• Proven experience of successfully managing and implementing large change projects

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible. Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system. Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period. If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

If you have problems applying, contact:

Address: Recruitment CNWL NHS Foundation Trust. MKHQ The Open University. Charles Pinfold Kents Hill Milton Keynes MK7 6AA

Telephone: 01908 724986