Community Nursing Lead - Cheltenham
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity for an experienced Community Nursing Lead to join the Cheltenham Integrated Community Team. The role involves clinical leadership, supervision, and management of a community nursing team, providing direct and indirect patient care. You will apply clinical operational experience to maintain and improve quality, monitor standards, and identify service delivery development opportunities. The role also requires building key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote community nursing services.
Key responsibilities
- Clinically lead, supervise and manage a community nursing team, working closely alongside them each day providing both direct and indirect patient care.
- Apply your Clinical operational experience, maintaining and improving quality, monitoring standards utilising data, audits and reports.
- Identify service delivery development or system opportunities working with our partners across Health & Social care and community networks.
- Build Key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote and build community nursing services.
Essential criteria
- A relevant Occupational qualification
- NMC registration
- Educated to degree (level 6) (or diploma equivalent)
- Extended skills qualifications relevant to the discipline ( District Nurse SPQ)
- Post registration Community Nursing Experience
- Clinical team leadership including professional and clinical supervision to staff at a variety of level
Desirable criteria
- Hold a recognised teaching and assessment/ mentoring qualification
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Use of electronic clinical recording system - S1 or similar system
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 26d
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Job summary
This role is offered on a 12 month fixed term.
Are you an experienced practitioner with a strong track record in Operational and Clinical leadership? Do you have the vision to know what great community nursing care looks like and the passion to help us reshape the way we deliver care?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nursing Lead (CNL) to join our established teams to work with our community nurses in the Cheltenham Integrated Community Team.
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 peer group of Professionals within Community Nursing as well as Physiotherapy and Health Occupational Therapy.
Main duties of the job
What will your role involve:
- You will clinically lead, supervise and manage a community nursing team working closely alongside them each day providing both direct and indirect patient care.
- Apply your Clinical operational experience, maintaining and improving quality, monitoring standards utilising data, audits and reports.
- Identify service delivery development or system opportunities working with our partners across Health & Social care and community networks.
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