Job summary
Community Nursing
Band 7
Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (weekdays including 1 weekend in 15 working)
Job ref: 327-25-245
Employer: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Tewkesbury, Newent & Staunton Community team
Town: Tewkesbury
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum plus 2% enhancement for on call
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Job overview
Community Nurse Lead - Forest of Dean, Tewkesbury, Newent & Staunton Integrated Community Team
We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nursing Lead (CNL) to join our established teams to work with our community nurses in the Forest, Tewkesbury, Newent & Staunton (TNS) Integrated Community Team. This post will be based in the TNS team from Tewkesbury Borough Council Offices.
The role is diverse, varied and practice-focused, upholding the professional standards of practice, innovating service developments and working in collaboration with colleagues to create an outstanding service for the patients and families we work with. You will join an established, highly experienced collaborative peer group of professionals within Community Nursing as well as Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Home First / Reablement.
Main duties of the job
What will your role involve:
1. You will clinically lead, supervise and manage a community nursing team working closely alongside them each day providing both direct and indirect patient care.
2. Apply your Clinical operational experience, maintaining and improving quality, monitoring standards utilising data, audits and reports.
3. Identify service delivery development or system opportunities working with our partners across Health & Social care and community networks.
4. Build Key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote and build community nursing services.
Working for our organisation
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
1. 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
2. 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
3. 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.
To ensure you fully understand how the Trust, as a Data Controller, will process and store your data please read the attached document ‘Applicant and Staff Privacy Notice’ prior to applying for the role.
Candidates for any staff appointment shall, when making application, disclose in writing to the Trust whether they are related to any governor. Failure to disclose such a relationship may disqualify a candidate and, if appointed, may render them liable to dismissal.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. A relevant Occupational qualification
2. NMC registration
3. Educated to degree (level 6) (or diploma equivalent)
4. Extended skills qualifications relevant to the discipline ( District Nurse SPQ)
Desirable criteria
1. Hold a recognised teaching and assessment/ mentoring qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Post registration Community Nursing Experience
2. Clinical team leadership including professional and clinical supervision to staff at a variety of level
Desirable criteria
1. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
2. Use of SystmOne
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
1. Free car parking at many of our sites
2. 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
3. A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
4. A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
5. Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
6. Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
7. Recognition and long service awards
8. Fast Track physiotherapy
9. Our Wellbeing line
10. Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached
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.
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