District Nursing Team Leader *Internal*
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 7 Community Nurse Team Lead, covering a maternity leave, within the District Nursing team at Carlisle & District ICC. The successful applicant will provide clinical leadership and operational management to the community nurse team, manage the clinical caseload, and support patients with complex needs in the community. The role requires an SPQ qualification or equivalent and focuses on delivering high-quality care within an Integrated Care Community model.
Key responsibilities
- Provide clinical leadership and operational management of the community nurse team.
- Manage the clinical caseload for the team.
- Support the provision of high quality care for patients with complex needs within the community setting.
- Demonstrate skills and knowledge to support high quality care.
- Contribute to new ways of working to prevent ill health and ensure sustainable services.
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration 1st level registration
- BSc/MSc/SPQ equivalent clinical nursing experience or advanced practise
- Evidence of recent Continual Professional Development
- Significant post registration experience
- Leadership or Team Management experience
- Experience of service modernisation or change management
- Demonstrate clinical knowledge in acute and chronic disease management
- Knowledge of good clinical practice
- Knowledge of current health and social care policies and legislation
- Demonstrable knowledge of Clinical Governance
- Demonstrate clinical competence in minor illness management
- Able to demonstrate excellent motivation and communication skills
- Able to demonstrate ability to delegate effectively
- Able to demonstrate consultation and assessment skills
- Able to understand reflective practice and its application
- Self awareness and appreciation of limitations
- Ability to challenge effectively and present solutions to issues within service design and delivery
- Able to work independently and effectively within a team
- Flexible and motivated
- Computer skills
- Ability to adapt to change within working situation
- Able to travel independently
- Able to work 24/7 and flexibly across a range of in-patient and community settings.
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship Course or Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent
- Specialist chronic disease management course
- Nurse Prescribing qualification (V150 or V300)
- Experience in primary or urgent care
- Clinical Audit
- Community working
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 15d
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North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
District Nursing Team Leader *Internal*
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
INTERNAL ONLY TO NORTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (NCIC) EMPLOYEES ONLY
District Nurse Team Lead
Are you ready for a challenge and would like an opportunity to step up into the DN Team lead role?
An exciting Band 7 Community Nurse Team Lead opportunity has arisen with us at Carlisle & District ICC, covering a maternity leave.
There is an expectation that applicants hold the SPQ qualification or CSP Equivalent.
Main duties of the job
This role requires you to demonstrate the skills and knowledge to support the provision of high quality care, to support patients with complex needs within the community setting. The role will also require you to provide clinical leadership and operational management of the community nurse team along with the management of the clinical caseload for the team.
ICCs aim to address the challenges of an aging population and increasing demand on health and care services by providing more out of hospital care and empowering people to take control of their health and wellbeing. This will require new ways of working to focus on preventing ill health and ensure services are sustainable for the future. These new ways of working will follow the same approach across all eight IC
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