District Nurse Team Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a Band 7 District Nurse Team Lead role within Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust's Hertfordshire Division. The successful candidate will provide leadership and line management to a community nursing team, overseeing assessment, management, and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care for patients in their homes. The role involves supporting team development, promoting effective teamwork, and monitoring care quality to ensure high-quality, integrated services. It requires an experienced, compassionate, and motivated registered nurse passionate about community nursing.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration
- Evidence of continuing professional education and training at degree level
- Qualification in team / service management or prepared to work towards.
- Mentor or practice based learning training
- Community or Independent Nurse Prescribing qualification or prepared to work towards
Desirable criteria
- Post - registration qualification in district nursing or equivalent
- Evidence of recent post-registration nursing experience in community nursing
- Experience of negotiating and liaising within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
- Experience of co-ordinating and managing a team
- Experience of teaching others and mentoring students
- Experience of evidence-based care
- Experience of undertaking comprehensive health needs assessment and developing complex care plans
- Experience of co-ordinating and delivering care for people with complex, long term conditions.
- Skills & Knowledge
- Knowledge of principles of care for long term conditions, relevant NSFs and other national standards
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- Knowledge of Personal Development Planning.
- Knowledge of current health care policy and relevance to the delivery of healthcare services
- Detailed knowledge of Primary Health Care and collaborative working with other care providers, e.g. social care and voluntary services
- Knowledge of clinical governance & clinical supervision
- Knowledge of clinical governance & clinical supervision
- Able to work autonomously, planning and prioritising own workload and that of others
- Has a range of clinical skills and expertise relevant to the role
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
- Education/Qualification
- Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration
- Evidence of continuing professional education and training at degree level
- Qualification in team / service management or prepared to work towards.
- Mentor or practice based learning training
- Community or Independent Nurse Prescribing qualification or prepared to work towards
- Post - registration qualification in district nursing or equivalent
- Evidence of recent post-registration nursing experience in community nursing
- Experience of negotiating and liaising within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
- Experience of co-ordinating and managing a team
- Experience of teaching others and mentoring students
- Experience of evidence-based care
- Experience of undertaking comprehensive health needs assessment and developing complex care plans
- Experience of co-ordinating and delivering care for people with complex, long term conditions.
- Skills & Knowledge
- Knowledge of principles of care for long term conditions, relevant NSFs and other national standards
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- Knowledge of Personal Development Planning.
- Knowledge of current health care policy and relevance to the delivery of healthcare services
- Detailed knowledge of Primary Health Care and collaborative working with other care providers, e.g. social care and voluntary services
- Knowledge of clinical governance & clinical supervision
- Knowledge of clinical governance & clinical supervision
- Able to work autonomously, planning and prioritising own workload and that of others
- Has a range of clinical skills and expertise relevant to the role
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,657 – £58,785 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 5d ago · Closes in 10d
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Central London Community Health Trust
District Nurse Team Lead
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - We're Recruiting!
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust provides a wide range of high quality community services, and we're excited to welcome a Band 7 District Nurse Team Lead to our Hertfordshire Division.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, compassionate, and motivated registered nurse who is passionate about delivering excellent community nursing care and supporting colleagues to thrive.
The successful post holder will provide leadership and line management to a designated community nursing team, with responsibility for the assessment, management, and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care to patients in their own homes.
Supporting the day to day management, performance and development of the team, you would promote effective teamwork within the wider Primary Health Care Team, promoting effective communication and appropriate delegation, to the benefit of the patient and service delivery.
Monitoring the quality of care provisions and identifying areas for service improvement and development. Supporting Clinical and operational leads and Heads of Service in the delivery of high quality care. Partnership working with key stakeholders ensuring high quality, integrated and seam
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