The Community Nursing Lead sits within the Cheltenham Integrated Community Team at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The post clinically leads and supervises a community nursing team, combining direct and indirect patient care with quality monitoring through data and audit. It sits within a peer group spanning community nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, and carries on-call duties. Fit rests on NMC registration and the District Nurse SPQ.
What the job involves
- Clinically lead, supervise and manage a community nursing team, working alongside them daily in direct and indirect patient care
- Maintain and improve quality, monitoring standards using data, audits and reports
- Identify service development and system opportunities with partners across health, social care and community networks
- Build key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote and develop community nursing services
What’s required
Qualifications
- Relevant occupational qualification
- Degree (level 6) or diploma equivalent
- Extended skills qualification relevant to the discipline, such as the District Nurse SPQ
Registration & licences
- NMC registration
Experience
- Post-registration community nursing experience
- Clinical team leadership, including professional and clinical supervision of staff at various levels
Other
- Able to complete all statutory and mandatory training
- Able to undertake physical interventions, assessed by Occupational Health
- Disclose in writing any relationship to a Trust governor when applying
Nice to have
- Recognised teaching and assessment or mentoring qualification
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Use of an electronic clinical recording system, such as S1
What’s offered
- Support to relocate under the Trust's relocation policy
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
