Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nurse Team Manager
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day working 8am - 10 pm cover)
- Job ref
- 201-25-777
- Employer
- Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pentorr Health Centre and St Barnabas Hospital
- Town
- Torpoint and Saltash
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Torressa Community Nurse Team Manager
Band 7
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
Strategic Themes
Great Care
- Care based on what matters to people.
- Care provided at home or close to home.
- Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
- Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
Great Organisation
- Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
- Technology enabled care.
- Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
- Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
Great People
- A place people love to work and feel valued.
- Living our values with staff (all voices count).
- Attract, grow and develop talent.
- Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
Great Partner
- Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
- Joined-up community services.
- Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
- Reduce our impact on the environment.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Nurse Team Manager with the Toressa Community Nursing Team. This role is split across 2 bases Torpoint and Saltash.
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, focussed 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 frequent travel to various locations throughout the county including areas that may not be accessible by public transportation. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate how they will manage these travel requirements.
Main duties of the job
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.
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:
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Cornwall Foundation Trust
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Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
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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.
Working for our organisation
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.
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’.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications and Relevant Experience
Essential criteria
- First level registration adult nursing and registered with NMC
- Extensive experience of practising within the community, as a community nurse/District Nurse
- Experience of implementing change, developing and implementing policies
- Experience of and belief in benefits of integrated multi-disciplinary team working.
- Previous experience, knowledge and application of Safeguarding Policies
- Masters level professional education supplemented by specialist training and development or equivalent experience.
Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Teaching and assessing, coaching and mentoring skills to facilitate an effective learning environment
Other
Essential criteria
- Hold a Valid UK Driving licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ann-Marie Perry
- Job title
- East Integrated Community Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07711052739
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