Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Nursing Team Lead
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Community Nursing Team Lead
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Community Nursing Team Lead to play a key role in the success of our Community Nursing Teams. This leadership post is for an NMC-registered nurse with a Specialist Practitioner Qualification (SPQ) who demonstrates the Trust’s values and behaviours.
You will lead, develop and operationally manage a designated Community Nursing Team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, person-centred care across a seven-day service. This includes managing capacity, prioritising visits and responding effectively to service pressures.
The role involves:
- Supervising, supporting and developing staff
- Promoting interdisciplinary working, professional development and lifelong learning
- Working closely with the Clinical Lead and stakeholders to support service integration
- Maintaining CQC standards
- Managing delegated budgets
- Overseeing recruitment and retention
- Ensuring compliance with policies, performance targets and contractual requirements
You will demonstrate strong communication skills, sound clinical judgement and the ability to manage risk, investigate incidents and complaints, and embed learning across the service.
You will maintain your own clinical competencies, NMC registration and professional portfolio while providing visible clinical leadership to teams managing complex caseloads.
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate community nurse leader committed to service improvement and outstanding care.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide clinical and operational leadership for a Community Nursing Team, ensuring high standards of safe, person-centred care.
- Manage day-to-day service delivery, including capacity planning, prioritisation of visits, seven-day service cover, and escalation of risks or pressures.
- Lead, supervise and develop staff through appraisal, performance management, clinical supervision, education and training.
- Recruit, retain and support staff wellbeing, attendance, and professional development.
- Ensure compliance with CQC, organisational policies, clinical governance, safeguarding, health and safety, and risk management requirements.
- Manage delegated budgets, resources and staffing efficiently.
- Maintain effective communication within the team and with internal and external stakeholders, positively representing the service.
- Investigate complaints, incidents and serious incidents, identifying root causes, implementing improvements and sharing learning.
- Contribute to service improvement, quality assurance, audits, data reporting and strategic development of community nursing services.
- Maintain professional registration, clinical credibility and ongoing personal and professional development in line with NMC standards.
- Provide clinical leadership, support and guidance for complex caseloads, triage and evidence-based community nursing practice.
About Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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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
Benefits of Working with Us
- 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
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Mark Phillips
- Job title: Community Nursing Manager
- Email address: mark.phillips@berkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07815485154
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