Respiratory Nurse Team Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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 role leads a community respiratory service, encompassing virtual ward, long-term management, home oxygen, and pulmonary rehabilitation. The team provides urgent care at home, aiming to prevent hospital admissions and support self-management for patients with long-term respiratory conditions. The Team Lead will support the Clinical Lead with leadership, management, clinical expertise, and quality governance, ensuring staff supervision and participating in recruitment and service improvement. The role involves assessing patient needs, implementing care plans, administering medicines, and identifying clinical risks.
Key responsibilities
- Support the Clinical Lead with Leadership and Management tasks, Clinical Expertise and Caseload as well as Quality and Governance.
- Ensure each team member has access to a clinical supervisor and arrange time for staff to undertake Clinical Supervision.
- Delegate appropriate tasks and roles to other members of the nursing team, ensuring they have the skills and knowledge.
- Participate in recruitment and selection of team members.
- Actively participate in clinical audit and service improvement activity to improve patient care and patient outcomes.
- Assess patient needs, plan, implement and evaluate according to individualised patient needs.
Essential criteria
- BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC.
- Practice assessor and supervisor.
- Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality.
- Nurse Prescriber qualification or willingness to undertake.
- Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients.
- Experience of Multi-Disciplinary Team working.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources.
- Ability to prioritise workload and work autonomously, instruct and direct others; work is managed, not supervised.
- Ability to travel across Trust sites as required.
- Car Driver.
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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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Respiratory Nurse Team Lead
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
The community respiratory service consists of the respiratory virtual ward, long term respiratory management, home oxygen and pulmonary rehabilitation. The team provides urgent care to people in their homes.
Within the respiratory virtual ward, the team aims to deliver holistic assessments and interventions to individuals who are at risk of hospital admission. The aim of the team is to enable people to stay at home, recover, and re-engage with the important aspects of their life and prevent admission to acute sectors.
Following assessments and intervention, if patients require further support to help keep them at home, patients will be admitted to the virtual ward. The virtual ward provides a safe alternative to hospital for patients living with long term respiratory condition through community-based acute health and care delivery
The home oxygen team is a community assessment service for predominantly respiratory adult patients who require assessment and ongoing management of their oxygen requirements in line with BTS guidelines and key standards of practise.
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a prescribed and progressive exercise and education programme designed for people with long term respiratory conditions who experience symptoms
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