Job summary
- Main area
- District Nurse Team Leader
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-HERTS-7421628
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- BRE
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 p.a inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
District Nurse Team Lead
Band 7
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!
District Nurse Team Leader - Band 7
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Team Lead to join our Community Adult Planned Care Home Team. The team consists of Community Nurses, District Nurses, Nursing Associates and Health Care Assistants. The team covers 8am-6pm, 7 days a week supporting care homes across all 4 localites in Watford, Dacorum, Hertsmere & St Albans and Harpenden. Our aim is to be the best we can, offering safe, patient-centred and evidence-based care to those accessing our service.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Team Leader to join the Planned Care Team. The post holder will provide leadership working alongside the other Team Leads to support the community nursing team to provide excellent, evidenced based care to the patients on the caseload.
The post holder will be part of the leadership team but must maintain clinical competencies, hence a significant proportion of your hours will be clinical. This is to ensure that those patients with complex needs are managed effectively and the team members are supported to develop their skills and competencies.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their clinical leadership and operational management skills, taking responsibility for a range of tasks to support the smooth running of the service and the delivery of high quality clinical care.
You will be supported by the Locality Manager and will have the opportunity to develop strong peer relationships with colleagues from the wider leadership team for the Planned Care Clinical Business Unit across all localities in West Herts.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- RGN / RN with current registration
- Evidence of continuing professional education and training at degree level
- Mentor or practice based learning training
- Community or Independent Nurse Prescribing qualification or prepared to work towards
Desirable criteria
- Post –registration qualification in district nursing or equivalent
- Qualification in team / service management or prepared to work towards.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of recent post-registration nursing experience in community nursing
- Experience of negotiating and liaising within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
- Experience of co-ordinating and managing a team
- Experience of teaching others and mentoring students
- Experience of evidence-based care
- Experience of undertaking comprehensive health needs assessment and developing complex care plans
- Experience of co-ordinating and delivering care for people with complex, long term conditions.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- Knowledge of current health care policy and relevance to the delivery of healthcare services
- Detailed knowledge of Primary Health Care and collaborative working with other care providers, e.g. social care and voluntary services
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- Knowledge of clinical supervision
- Possesses clinical skills and expertise relevant to the role
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
- Basic computer skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to carry out the duties of the post With or without reasonable adjustments
- Able to travel around the district (car/bike/public transport/foot)
- Hold a clean UK drivers licence with access to a car (Barnet only)
Desirable criteria
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Jennifer Chady
- Job title
- Locality Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07880 171574
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