Community Nurse Team Leader - Ledbury (INTERNAL)
Band 7
Main area District Nurse - Team Leader Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Post includes working weekends. Post does NOT include working nights) Job ref 229-IC-8385203
Site Ledbury Community Hospital Town Ledbury Salary £49,387 - £56,515 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/11/2026 23:59
Job overview
**Internal Applicants Only**
We are the Ledbury District Nursing Team, a dedicated team providing excellent planned and unplanned nursing care to patients in their own homes. We aim to deliver high quality care to improve health & wellbeing and to support our patients to remain living at home. We pride ourselves in being hard-working, supportive, friendly & flexible.
We currently have a part time Team Lead post available and are seeking seeking a colleague who shares our passion for caring for people in their own homes, strives towards excellence in community nursing and with a keen interest in service development and quality improvement. We’re keen to recruit a colleague with community nursing and leadership experience and the right values and behaviours to help us deliver our Trust priorities.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the overall management of the team caseload and the rota. Ensuring the right skill mix and workforce development are key elements of the role.
You will lead on recruitment, training and reporting supported by the Community Nursing Matron and General Manager. You will undertake some clinical work in a wide range of nursing interventions.
This roles requires you to have excellent organisational skills, an ability to build relationships with internal and external colleagues and an appetite for innovation. You should be able to evidence the ability to lead and motivate others and be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Good IT skills are a must!
Whilst we value the Specialist Practitioner Qualification (SPQ), we will consider applications from those without it, but may have something at an equivalent level/relevant experience. It is the leadership ability that we need to support the team and our patients.
It includes working weekends and bank holidays as part of a rota and late shifts until 8pm. You must be able to drive and have access to a car. There are opportunities for lease cars.
If you have the right values for the WVT you will be supported by a programme of continuous training and development. The position offers opportunities to get involved in Quality Improvement & audits.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
- RN qualification registration part 1 of the NMC register
- DN specialist Practitioner Degree recorded with the NMC
- Non- medical prescriber recorded with the NMC
- Masters level health assessment module
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- Teaching and developing of educational packages for nurses other HCPs and patients
- Collaborative organisational skills
Experience
- Demonstrable excellence in District Nursing as a caseload holder
- Participation in clinical audit and service development
- Experience of leading a team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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