Job summary
- Main area
- District Nursing - Bracknell
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CHS1154
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Church Hill House
- Town
- Bracknell
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum (incl. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Nursing Team Lead
Band 7
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced Community Nursing Team Lead to play a fundamental role in the success of our Community Nursing Teams. This is a key leadership post for an NMC-registered nurse who holds a Specialist Practitioner Qualification (SPQ) and is committed to role-modelling the Trust’s core values and behaviours.
As Team Lead, you will be responsible for the leadership, development and operational management of a designated Community Nursing Team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, person-centred care to patients, families and carers in the community. You will provide visible, supportive leadership across a seven-day service, managing capacity, prioritising visits and responding effectively to service pressures.
You will supervise, support and develop staff, promoting interdisciplinary working, lifelong learning and professional development. Working closely with the Clinical Lead and key stakeholders, you will support service integration, maintain CQC standards, manage delegated budgets, oversee recruitment and retention, and ensure adherence to policies, performance targets and contractual requirements.
Main duties of the job
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Provide clinical and operational leadership for a Community Nursing Team, ensuring high standards of safe, person-centred care.
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Manage day-to-day service delivery, including capacity planning, prioritisation of visits, seven-day service cover, and escalation of risks or pressures.
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Lead, supervise and develop staff through appraisal, performance management, clinical supervision, education and training.
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Recruit, retain and support staff wellbeing, attendance, and professional development.
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Ensure compliance with CQC, organisational policies, clinical governance, safeguarding, health and safety, and risk management requirements.
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Manage delegated budgets, resources and staffing efficiently.
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Maintain effective communication within the team and with internal and external stakeholders, positively representing the service.
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Investigate complaints, incidents and serious incidents, identifying root causes, implementing improvements and sharing learning.
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Contribute to service improvement, quality assurance, audits, data reporting and strategic development of community nursing services.
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Maintain professional registration, clinical credibility and ongoing personal and professional development in line with NMC standards.
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Provide clinical leadership, support and guidance for complex caseloads, triage and evidence-based community nursing practice.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The "must haves" for this role:
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NMC Registered Nurse
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District Nursing Specialist Practice Qualification. (DNSPQ).
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Extensive Community Nursing experience.
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Evidence of leadership and management of a nursing team
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Evidence of continuous professional development
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Jane Dunford on 07789 504573 who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Nurse
- District Nursing Specialist Practice Qualification. (DNSPQ).
- Teaching qualification.
- Extensive Community Nursing experience.
- Evidence of leadership and management of a nursing team
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Advanced History Taking and Community Nursing Prescriber (V100/150/300)
- Experience of coaching.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates wider and current competencies in clinical skills transferable to community setting.
- Creative and innovative approach to service development
- Demonstrates flexibility to deal with the needs of unscheduled services and able to prioritise workloads and work under pressure
- Able to motivate self and teams to manage change
- Ability to support staff to undertake operational and clinical and duties implementing evidence based practice
- Ability to influence and problem solve
- Works collaboratively with their counterparts from teams in other provider organisations to develop a seamless service
- Highly visible, approachable and able to motivate others
- Ability to communicate at all levels; utilising effective written, oral and presentation skills.
- Reinforces the need to view users holistically and promote self-care and independence
- Develops strong interpersonal relationships, ensuring that staff are given the opportunity to develop and grow into roles; promoting succession planning, to meet the needs of the service
- Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
- Manage performance and attendance through the application of HR processes
- Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas
- Participation and leading in audit
- Able to utilise IT and various media in order to support data collection and produce databases, spread sheets and reports
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate recent innovative practice
- Able to work flexibly across service areas to enhance quality of service provision
- Valid full UK licence with confidence to drive during unsocial hours and in unusual environments with use of car for work
- Able to work bank Holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service need
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Dunford
- Job title
- Community Nursing Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07789 504573
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