Community Nursing Lead - Cheltenham

Job overview

Are you an experienced practitioner with a strong track record in Operational and Clinical leadership? Do you have the vision to know what great community nursing care looks like and the passion to help us reshape the way we deliver care?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nursing Lead (CNL) to join our established teams to work with our community nurses in the Cheltenham Integrated Community Team.

The role is diverse, varied and practice focused, upholding the professional standards of practice, innovating service developments and working in collaboration with colleagues to create an outstanding service for the patients and families we work with. You will join an established, highly experienced peer group of Professionals within Community Nursing as well as Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and Home First/Reablement.

Main duties of the job

What will your role involve:

• You will clinically lead, supervise and manage a community nursing team working closely alongside them each day providing both direct and indirect patient care.
• Apply your Clinical operational experience, maintaining and improving quality, monitoring standards utilising data, audits and reports.
• Identify service delivery development or system opportunities working with our partners across Health & Social care and community networks.
• Build Key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote and build community nursing services

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

The Trust aims to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services.  It is the Trust’s view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

To ensure you fully understand how the Trust, as a Data Controller, will process and store your data please read the attached document ‘Applicant and Staff Privacy Notice’ prior to applying for the role.

Candidates for any staff appointment shall, when making application, disclose in writing to the Trust whether they are related to any governor.  Failure to disclose such a relationship may disqualify a candidate and, if appointed, may render them liable to dismissal.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust are proud to have been recognised as a ‘Veteran Aware Trust’, evidencing the provision of the best care for Veterans and driving to improve the care for veterans and their families. Find out more about this by clicking on the link at the right-hand side, titled ‘Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance’.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.