Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-0797-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Firth Park Clinic
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/10/2025
Employer heading

Operational Lead for Community Nursing
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for Operational Lead for Community Nursing, where you'll drive service excellence, lead transformational change, and support our community nursing teams. This is a rewarding opportunity to manage and support staff, champion innovation, and ensure high-quality care delivery in the heart of the community.
Key skills required:
- Registered District Nurse qualification
- Proven experience in leading change and service improvement
- Strong people management and team leadership skills
- Excellent communication and organisational abilities
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the operational leadership and management of designated Community Nursing Teams.
- To actively lead the development of community nursing teams through staff engagement and workforce development.
- To work with community, primary and secondary care services, supporting the development, facilitation and implementation of robust strategies for admissions avoidance and hospital discharge.
- Establish effective working partnerships with all members of the Inter-disciplinary Team (IDT) and multi-agency team within Community, Primary and secondary care to develop effective patient pathways between services.
- To work with appropriate professional leads and clinical/operational managers to ensure professional development of all staff within the integrated care team.
- Actively engage with partner agencies in developing effective and efficient Integrated Community Teams across Sheffield.
- Work with appropriate colleagues to implement Safeguarding Adult policies ensuring robust reporting mechanisms are in place within the business unit.
- To engage with the clinical governance agenda of the Directorate, Care Group and wider organisations.
- To develop and maintain effective relationships and networks with all stakeholders.
- Line manage the staff in the pathway ensuring personal objectives are aligned with the service and care group objectives to achieve key performance targets.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse with District Nurse Specialist Practitioner qualification
- Management business/leadership qualification at post graduate level or equivalent experience/ knowledge
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical/managerial leadership experience, including line management of staff, e.g. sickness/absence, recruitment/selection and managing complex and challenging change initiatives in a multi-disciplinary arena.
- Experience of strategic development and understanding the effects of implementation/evaluation and review.
- Experience and understanding of the complexity of managing services across statutory and non-statutory boundaries.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive understanding of Community Services and Care Closer to Home, local and national drivers. Extensive knowledge of working in integrated care teams.
- Knowledge of NHS financial management and of working in a multi -disciplinary environment to include aspects of – pricing, costing, budgeting and performance management.
- Experience of change management in complex situations.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication (both verbal and written)
- Able to establish effective working relationships and forge bonds with all relevant stakeholders
Specialist Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of successfully undertaking a lead role in a project/ audit
- Project management skills.
- Evidence of the successful application of a change management project.
- Able to produce reports for Senior Management in service and care group.
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
- Rebekah Matthews
- Job title
- Assistant Head of Integrated Community Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07973801783
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