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Nurse Team Leader – Lung Cancer Screening Service
Location
North East London, with travel across East and North Hertfordshire, West Essex, Harlow, Rainham, Havering, Waltham Forest and surrounding programme locations.
Salary
£46,000 + £4,200 Car Allowance or Company Car
Hours
Full Time, Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Flexible Working
Hours can be worked across 4 or 5 days per week, allowing you to achieve an excellent work-life balance.
Why Join Us?
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated Lung Cancer Screening team while enjoying a highly flexible way of working. The role offers a blend of home-based and face-to-face working, giving you autonomy over your week while maintaining meaningful patient and stakeholder engagement.
You'll benefit from:
- No weekend working, allowing you to enjoy your evenings and weekends free.
- Flexible working patterns, with the option to work your contracted hours across 4 or 5 days per week.
- Predominantly home-based working, balancing remote leadership with clinical engagement.
- At least one on-site visit per month to deliver face-to-face clinics, support local teams, provide staff training and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
- A varied role combining leadership, patient care, service development and operational oversight.
- A company car or £4,200 car allowance.
- The opportunity to make a real impact within an expanding and innovative cancer screening service.
About the Role
As Nurse Team Leader, you will provide clinical and operational leadership to a team of Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care across our Lung Cancer Screening programme.
Reporting to the Clinical Lead, you will oversee the day-to-day running of the service, support workforce development, maintain clinical standards and contribute to continuous service improvement. You will also play a key role in nurse-led clinics, screening review meetings, the management of incidental findings and nodule surveillance pathways.
This is a predominantly Monday to Friday role with no weekend working. The position is largely home-based, with flexibility to work across 4 or 5 days per week. Travel across programme locations is required, including a minimum of one on-site visit each month for clinics, staff training, stakeholder engagement and service delivery activities.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead, support and develop a team of Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.
- Provide clinical leadership and act as a visible role model across the service.
- Deliver nurse-led clinics and provide specialist respiratory expertise.
- Ensure high standards of patient care, safety and clinical governance.
- Support workforce planning, performance management and staff development.
- Participate in multidisciplinary meetings and screening review discussions.
- Oversee the management of nodule surveillance and incidental findings pathways.
- Support service audits, quality improvement projects and national pilot programmes.
- Build strong relationships with clinical stakeholders and partner organisations.
- Ensure compliance with national screening standards and organisational policies.
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Registered Nurse with an active NMC registration.
- Significant respiratory nursing experience.
- Previous people management experience.
- Experience leading and developing clinical teams.
- Strong communication, organisational and leadership skills.
- Confident clinical decision-maker with excellent assessment skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across programme locations.
Desirable
- Spirometry / ARTP accreditation.
- IRMER qualification (or willingness to undertake training).
- Smoking cessation qualification.
- Leadership, coaching or teaching qualification.
- Experience within screening services or cancer pathways.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're a passionate respiratory nurse with leadership experience and a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in helping detect lung cancer earlier, improving outcomes for patients and leading a team that is making a real difference every day.
What's in it for you
In addition to this, we also offer:
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Generous company contribution pension scheme
- Sick pay for peace of mind, so you can rest and recover without financial worry
- Private medical insurance options
- Life assurance
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities
- 24/7 access to a dedicated well-being hub and Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced parental leave
- Monthly award programme and online peer-to-peer recognition
- Long service recognition, with vouchers and additional annual leave
- Refer a friend bonus
- Discounts on our healthcare services
- Smart tech, Cycle to Work, and thousands of discounts and cashback options
- For eligible* roles - an additional payment of £10 per hour, up to £50 per day, for each weekend day worked - paid monthly in arrears
- Paid-for professional memberships and more!
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- This includes colleagues delivering face to face patient care in the Lung screening mobile units, Endoscopy, AAA Screening, Breast Screening, PET-CT, Audiology, Mobiles, Imaging Centres and CDC’s. Note that this payment is not applicable to clinical staff working within the Echocardiography division, or Diabetic Eye Screening. The Weekend Payment does not apply to those on a flexible working agreement and part time workers that have requested to work weekend hours/days as part of their working agreement. The Weekend Payment also doesn’t apply to those who are working remotely or carrying out administrative work from home.
About us
InHealth is the UK’s largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions, working in partnership with the NHS for more than 30 years to make healthcare better for more than 5 million patients each year.
For clinical colleagues, that means delivering high-quality care within modern settings, with state-of-the-art equipment across a wide range of community, hospital and mobile settings. With flexibility, strong learning and development opportunities, and the chance to support people at important moments in their healthcare journey, you can build a rewarding career while making a real difference locally and nationally.
InHealth is a place where you're trusted to do your job well, supported by people who value your expertise and give you the space to act on it. Teams show up for each other, leaders back your judgment and help remove blockers rather than create them.
New opportunities open as we grow - whether that's progressing, moving sideways or taking on something different as your strengths evolve. And everything we do is focussed on making healthcare better - for patients, partners and the people delivering care.
Read more about us here: Who We Are - InHealth Group
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