# Head of Service – Community Nursing > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-service-community-nursing/aceada07-b3b8-4dc5-aa1e-a6ca839f30be - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-service-community-nursing/aceada07-b3b8-4dc5-aa1e-a6ca839f30be.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Romic House/ Countywide - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-18T13:50:56.870Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Northamptonshire/Countywide/Northamptonshire_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Nursing/Community_Nursing-v8208422 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8208422?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Head of Service for Community Nursing (CN) is a senior operational leader responsible for the strategic, operational, and performance management of CN services across NHFT. The post holder will lead delivery of safe, high-quality, and responsive services that support quality workforce performance and governance across neighbourhood based community teams ensuring compliance with contractual , and financial workforce requirements. Working closely with the Assistant Director, Director, and Head of Nursing & AHPs, the role provides visible leadership across multidisciplinary teams and system partners to deliver Community Nursing care pathways aligned to national and local priorities. The post holder will also lead service transformation, service strategy workforce development, and pathway redesign to meet increasing demand and system pressures. ### Main duties of the job - Lead operational delivery of CN services, ensuring achievement of performance targets - Hold accountability for financial performance, budget control, and delivery of cost improvement programmes - Accountable for delivery of CN performance across the care delivery pathway - Lead demand and capacity planning , caseload modelling and neighbourhood integration. - Ensure delivery of high standards of clinical quality, patient safety, and risk management - Lead workforce planning, ensuring safe staffing levels - Develop and implement service strategies, business plans, and transformation programmes - Lead service redesign and pathway development to improve patient flow, capacity, and outcomes - Oversee escalation processes, surge responses , business continuity, winter resilience planning and mobilisation . - Represent Community Nursing at system level and ensure strengthened working with GP’s , social care , voluntary sector , acute partners . Build relationships with primary care - Ensure robust governance, escalation, and risk management processes are in place - Lead on performance monitoring, reporting, and continuous improvement Please note this is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities of the post. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required commensurate with the grade and/or hours of work at the post holders initial place of work or at any other of the Trust’s establishments. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document. ### Applicant requirements 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills and abilities **Essential** - · Excellent communication and influencing skills, including negotiation at senior level - · Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver under pressure - · Skilled in service planning, business case development, and transformation delivery - · Ability to manage risk and make sound judgements in high-risk situations - · Advanced IT and analytical skills to support reporting and performance management - · Ability to analyse and interpret complex performance and financial data **Desirable** - · Experience of digital transformation or innovation in service delivery - · Advanced facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills ### Behaviours and values **Essential** - · Demonstrates inclusive, compassionate, and visible leadership - · Demonstrates resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment - · Promotes a positive, open, and learning culture **Desirable** - · Evidence of leading cultural change and staff engagement initiatives - · Experience of embedding equality, diversity, and inclusion in service delivery ### Knowledge and experience **Essential** - · Significant senior management experience across complex healthcare services - · Proven experience of operational, financial, and performance management - · Experience of leading service transformation and change programmes - · Demonstrable experience managing and developing staff and multidisciplinary teams - · Experience of working with system partners across health and social care - · Experience of preparing and presenting reports to senior forums **Desirable** - · Experience in Urgent Community Response or community services - · Experience of system-level working (ICS/ICB) - · Postgraduate qualification in leadership or management ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 344.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10515326) - [your guide to nhft (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3047) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.