Job summary
We are looking for an experienced Service Manager to lead our Community Nursing Service, ensuring high-quality, safe, and person-centred care across the community.
You will provide strong operational leadership, manage workforce and resources, and drive service performance and improvement. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams and partners, you will play a key role in shaping and developing community nursing services.
You will have:
- Proven leadership and management experience
- Strong understanding and experience of community nursing or community health services
- Ability to manage performance, staffing, and budgets
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
We offer:
- A rewarding leadership role with real impact
- Supportive working environment
- Opportunities for development and progression
If you're passionate about community nursing and ready to lead, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Manager, Community Nursing Services, provides strategic and operational leadership for the delivery of high-quality, safe, and person-centred community nursing care. The role is responsible for overseeing service planning, performance, workforce capability, and continuous improvement across community nursing teams, ensuring services are responsive to population needs and aligned with organisational goals, clinical governance standards, and regulatory requirements.
This position leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver effective care in community settings, promotes best practice and innovation, and ensures optimal use of resources to achieve sustainable, efficient service delivery. The Senior Manager plays a key role in stakeholder engagement, service development, and change management, supporting improved health outcomes and positive patient, family, and staff experiences. As the Service Manager you will have responsibility for leading and managing the Community Nursing Service provision in Milton Keynes.
About us
We offer:
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A rewarding leadership role with real impact
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Supportive working environment
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Opportunities for development and progression
If you're passionate about community nursing and ready to lead, we'd love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post holder will have responsibility for leading and managing the Community Nursing Service provision in Milton Keynes.
- To line manage staff, (within this specific area of responsibility as identified above), from varying backgrounds, both clinical and non-clinical, ensuring that individual staff performance, appraisal and development is robustly undertaken to optimise both individual and organisational performance and that all staff have access to continuing professional education and development to maximise performance.
- To ensure staffing levels and skill mix fully and effectively meet the needs of the services, within financial constraints
- To ensure that services are continually monitored, viewed and adapted to meet changing need and identified commissioning requirements
- To support teams to perform effectively in-service delivery and ensure effective positive communication, promoting both multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
- To work alongside key colleagues to develop appropriate and constructive relationships both within and external to the organisation within service improvements.
- To work with the Head of Quality Governance and implement systems and processes to manage risk and ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures within the specific services.
- Develop robust communication systems, building strong links between Community Nursing, Social Care, Home Care and Home First
- Act as a point of contact and support for GP practices and PCNs
- Lead change management in the implementation of service development strategies.
- To work within a framework of continuous improvement
Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post holder will have responsibility for leading and managing the Community Nursing Service provision in Milton Keynes.
- To line manage staff, (within this specific area of responsibility as identified above), from varying backgrounds, both clinical and non-clinical, ensuring that individual staff performance, appraisal and development is robustly undertaken to optimise both individual and organisational performance and that all staff have access to continuing professional education and development to maximise performance.
- To ensure staffing levels and skill mix fully and effectively meet the needs of the services, within financial constraints
- To ensure that services are continually monitored, viewed and adapted to meet changing need and identified commissioning requirements
- To support teams to perform effectively in-service delivery and ensure effective positive communication, promoting both multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
- To work alongside key colleagues to develop appropriate and constructive relationships both within and external to the organisation within service improvements.
- To work with the Head of Quality Governance and implement systems and processes to manage risk and ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures within the specific services.
- Develop robust communication systems, building strong links between Community Nursing, Social Care, Home Care and Home First
- Act as a point of contact and support for GP practices and PCNs
- Lead change management in the implementation of service development strategies.
- To work within a framework of continuous improvement
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- oRegistered Health Care Professional - RGN or Allied Health Professional (HCPC)
- oEducated to master's degree level (or working towards) or equivalent experience
Desirable
- oRegistered General Nurse with experience working in Community and District Nursing
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oExperience in management of community health services, at a middle management level in a health or social care organisation.
- oProven experience of managing a multi-disciplinary team including senior managers and clinicians
Desirable
- oProven experience of successfully managing and implementing large change projects
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- oRegistered Health Care Professional - RGN or Allied Health Professional (HCPC)
- oEducated to master's degree level (or working towards) or equivalent experience
Desirable
- oRegistered General Nurse with experience working in Community and District Nursing
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oExperience in management of community health services, at a middle management level in a health or social care organisation.
- oProven experience of managing a multi-disciplinary team including senior managers and clinicians
Desirable
- oProven experience of successfully managing and implementing large change projects
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
MK THQ, Charles Pinfold Building, Open University Campus,
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
Employer's website
https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)
