Job summary
Are you a passionate and experienced community nurse ready to take the next step in your career? We are looking for an enthusiastic Band 7 Community Nursing Team Lead to join our supportive and forward-thinking community nursing service.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in delivering high-quality, compassionate care to patients within their own homes and communities. As a Team Lead, you will work closely with the Clinical Lead and District Nurse to ensure our service remains safe, effective, and truly person-centred.
You will lead and support a dedicated team of community nursing professionals, promoting excellence in clinical practice while creating a positive and supportive team environment. Your leadership will help ensure smooth day-to-day service delivery, support staff development, and drive continuous improvement across the service.
This role offers the chance to make a real difference -- not only to the patients and families we care for, but also to the staff you support and develop.
If you are a motivated leader who is passionate about community care, collaboration, and improving patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.
Come and be part of a team that is committed to delivering outstanding care in the community while supporting each other to grow and succeed.
Main duties of the job
In this influential role, you'll provide vital support across localities to ensure that safe, high-quality care is consistently delivered within the community.
Working in close partnership with the Clinical Lead and District Nurse, you'll lead and manage our dedicated community nursing team--overseeing patient care and incidents, championing staff development, upholding professional standards, and actively contributing to clinical governance. Your leadership will be highly visible, offering guidance, support, and motivation to colleagues as you help shape the culture and performance of the service.
This dynamic position blends 40% clinical practice with 60% management, giving you the opportunity to stay hands-on in patient care while driving service improvement and team development.
For full details on what this role can offer you, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
About us
The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.
With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.
We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for specific details of this role and its responsibilities.
The post holder will ensure that patients, services users, families, and carers have a positive safe and high-quality experience when accessing and receiving care, treatment, advice and support from Procare employees and will ensure learning is shared and embedded in situations where things did not go as well as they should have.Patients are the most important people in the health service and are at the centre of primary and community health care services. As patients and carers are the experts in how they feel and what it is like to live with or care for someone with an illness or condition, all Procare employees are guided by real experience of our services to guide quality and service improvements.
Post holders will be available to work Monday to Sunday between 8am and 8pm. A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post, however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Procare Community Services are not a UKVI sponsoring organisation, so all candidates are required to have their own independent right to work
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for specific details of this role and its responsibilities.
The post holder will ensure that patients, services users, families, and carers have a positive safe and high-quality experience when accessing and receiving care, treatment, advice and support from Procare employees and will ensure learning is shared and embedded in situations where things did not go as well as they should have.Patients are the most important people in the health service and are at the centre of primary and community health care services. As patients and carers are the experts in how they feel and what it is like to live with or care for someone with an illness or condition, all Procare employees are guided by real experience of our services to guide quality and service improvements.
Post holders will be available to work Monday to Sunday between 8am and 8pm. A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post, however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Procare Community Services are not a UKVI sponsoring organisation, so all candidates are required to have their own independent right to work
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Level 1 Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
- Assessor / NMC Supervisor / Mentorship
- Evidence of recent continuing professional development relevant to Community Nursing
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Broad range of clinical skills relevant to community nursing, - including but not limited to Compression Bandaging, Dopplers, Venepuncture, Male & Suprapubic Catheter, Syringe drivers and Palliative care symptom management
- Able to demonstrate experience of managing people, undertaking appraisals, investigations, formal and informal reviews, Supporting staff through HR processes
- A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post, however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Level 1 Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
- Assessor / NMC Supervisor / Mentorship
- Evidence of recent continuing professional development relevant to Community Nursing
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Broad range of clinical skills relevant to community nursing, - including but not limited to Compression Bandaging, Dopplers, Venepuncture, Male & Suprapubic Catheter, Syringe drivers and Palliative care symptom management
- Able to demonstrate experience of managing people, undertaking appraisals, investigations, formal and informal reviews, Supporting staff through HR processes
- A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post, however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
