Professional Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 18/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This part-time Professional Lead role is a 12-month fixed-term or secondment opportunity within the South Warwickshire Community Response Teams. The role involves overseeing Warwick and Stratford community response teams, facilitating patient discharge, preventing hospital admissions, and providing palliative care support. It focuses on clinical leadership and operational management within a clinical governance framework, working with integrated teams to develop services and multi-disciplinary approaches. The successful candidate will also deputise for the Locality Manager, contributing to service redesign and effective resource management.
Essential criteria
- Registered in Health or Social Care Professional Qualification
- 1st level Degree or equivalent
- Recent CPD
- EDCL 1 or equivalent experience
- Post graduate knowledge in specialist area i.e. paediatrics, health visiting, public health
- Management qualification or equivalent
- Substantial experience at team leader or equivalent in health or social care
- Significant community experience at band 6 level of 1 year at band 7
- Ability to lead projects, design & implement project plans
- Able to influence and negotiate
- Ability to interpret data to make recommendations about service delivery & take appropriate action
- Ability to contribute to business specifications e.g. SLA's, tenders and take the lead where appropriate
- Ability to manage budgets
- Ability to translate the national and local agenda to staff and take action to shape and implement the vision for the future development of service
- Set meaningful goals with staff and stakeholders in response to identified opportunities for growth and development
- Ability to think creatively supporting staff to use innovative approaches in service delivery
- Ability to influence and overcome barriers to change, recognising limitations of self and others and taking appropriate action
- Ability to deliver results in a complex environment
- Ability to implement strategic change whilst involving patients, public, staff and stakeholders
- Ability to hold others to account for agreed targets and to demonstrate personal accountability for delivering a high-quality service
- Ability to demonstrate leadership qualities consistently and develop these in others
- Ability to work with stakeholders and influence a range of diverse groups to implement and where appropriate lead service redesign
- Ability to use skills required to lead service and pathway redesign
- Ability to understand own abilities and potential to use this to overcome obstacles to build teams, secure best outcomes for service improvements
- Ability to understand own limitations, style and emotions and those of others and be clear about the impact of such behaviours in diverse and complex situations
- Ability to exhibit a motivation to improve performance in the health service
- Other
- Driver and own transport
- Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service
- Non-smoker on Trust premises
- Registered in Health or Social Care Professional Qualification
- 1st level Degree or equivalent
- Recent CPD
- EDCL 1 or equivalent experience
- Post graduate knowledge in specialist area i.e. paediatrics, health visiting, public health
- Management qualification or equivalent
- Substantial experience at team leader or equivalent in health or social care
- Significant community experience at band 6 level of 1 year at band 7
- Ability to lead projects, design & implement project plans
- Able to influence and negotiate
- Ability to interpret data to make recommendations about service delivery & take appropriate action
- Ability to contribute to business specifications e.g. SLA's, tenders and take the lead where appropriate
- Ability to manage budgets
- Ability to translate the national and local agenda to staff and take action to shape and implement the vision for the future development of service
- Set meaningful goals with staff and stakeholders in response to identified opportunities for growth and development
- Ability to think creatively supporting staff to use innovative approaches in service delivery
- Ability to influence and overcome barriers to change, recognising limitations of self and others and taking appropriate action
- Ability to deliver results in a complex environment
- Ability to implement strategic change whilst involving patients, public, staff and stakeholders
- Ability to hold others to account for agreed targets and to demonstrate personal accountability for delivering a high-quality service
- Ability to demonstrate leadership qualities consistently and develop these in others
- Ability to work with sta
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Professional Lead - [contact details removed]
The closing date is 18 September 2026
Job summary
SWUFT Out of Hospital Division has an exciting opportunity for a part time Professional Lead (12 month fixed term or secondment) to work within our South Warwickshire Community Response Teams. The team is based over 2 sites at Whitnash Lodge, RLSRH, Leamington Spa and Hathaway, Stratford upon Avon Hospital.
Overseeing the Warwick and Stratford community response teams (CRT) facilitating discharge of patients from acute hospitals with a South Warwickshire GP, assessing patients in their own home preventing admission and palliative care support. By providing assessment, intermediate interventions and reviews that forms part of our patients rehabilitation and assessment of care needs. The team educate and encourage the patient with their activities of daily livings (ADL's), administration of medication, and therapeutic goals.
The role is exciting and has opportunities for the right candidate to develop their knowledge, competence and managerial skills in an ever changing, dynamic health and social care environment. Not only working in collaboration with colleagues across the locality; including allied health professionals, place-based teams, urgent community response leads, and several specialist services, but also liaising
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