North Coastal Cluster Community Nurse Team Manager

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Nurse Team Manager with the North Coastal Cluster  Community Nursing Team.  The role is split across 2 bases: Wadebridge & Tintagel covering  a large rural area.

The successful applicant will lead and manage the operational services of a Community Nursing Locality Team, taking into account local health needs and the policy priority of developing services closer to home.

You will be responsible for the delivery and maintenance of high quality evidence based care, focused on meeting the needs and choices of patients, carers and families, fostering  positive relationships with local commissioning boards and community and voluntary organisations.

Creating an effective, integrated multi-disciplinary approach you will be responsible for working  within the locality teams and ensuring the best practice guidelines and performance standards are met while meeting service targets.

You will  be an autonomous practitioner responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients with highly complex health and social care needs, and provide developmental leadership and management to all staff within the locality and with responsibility to form and inform future service development.

This is a community-based role that requires travel to various locations throughout the county including areas that may not be accessible by public transport. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate how they will manage these travel requirements.

Main duties of the job

This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.  We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply:

Cornwall Foundation Trust

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.

Key Dimensions of the post are:

• Professional and operational lead for Community Nursing Service within a given Locality. • Authorised signatory and responsible for appropriate use of resources. • Responsible for Quality and Governance, including Health & Safety and patient safety.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.