Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for Operational Lead for Community Nursing, where you'll drive service excellence, lead transformational change, and support our community nursing teams. This is a rewarding opportunity to manage and support staff, champion innovation, and ensure high-quality care delivery in the heart of the community.
Key skills required:
1. Registered District Nurse qualification
2. Proven experience in leading change and service improvement
3. Strong people management and team leadership skills
4. Excellent communication and organisational abilities
Main duties of the job
5. Responsible for the operational leadership and management of designated Community Nursing Teams.
6. To actively lead the development of community nursing teams through staff engagement and workforce development.
7. To work with community, primary and secondary care services, supporting the development, facilitation and implementation of robust strategies for admissions avoidance and hospital discharge.
8. Establish effective working partnerships with all members of the Inter-disciplinary Team (IDT) and multi-agency team within Community, Primary and secondary care to develop effective patient pathways between services.
9. To work with appropriate professional leads and clinical/operational managers to ensure professional development of all staff within the integrated care team.
10. Actively engage with partner agencies in developing effective and efficient Integrated Community Teams across Sheffield.
11. Work with appropriate colleagues to implement Safeguarding Adult policies ensuring robust reporting mechanisms are in place within the business unit.
12. To engage with the clinical governance agenda of the Directorate, Care Group and wider organisations.
13. To develop and maintain effective relationships and networks with all stakeholders.
14. Line manage the staff in the pathway ensuring personal objectives are aligned with the service and care group objectives to achieve key performance targets.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
15. Registered nurse with District Nurse Specialist Practitioner qualification
16. Management business/leadership qualification at post graduate level or equivalent experience/ knowledge
17. Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
18. Significant clinical/managerial leadership experience, including line management of staff, e.g. sickness/absence, recruitment/selection and managing complex and challenging change initiatives in a multi-disciplinary arena.
19. Experience of strategic development and understanding the effects of implementation/evaluation and review.
20. Experience and understanding of the complexity of managing services across statutory and non-statutory boundaries.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
21. Comprehensive understanding of Community Services and Care Closer to Home, local and national drivers. Extensive knowledge of working in integrated care teams.
22. Knowledge of NHS financial management and of working in a multi -disciplinary environment to include aspects of – pricing, costing, budgeting and performance management.
23. Experience of change management in complex situations.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
24. Excellent communication (both verbal and written)
25. Able to establish effective working relationships and forge bonds with all relevant stakeholders
Specialist Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
26. Evidence of successfully undertaking a lead role in a project/ audit
27. Project management skills.
28. Evidence of the successful application of a change management project.
29. Able to produce reports for Senior Management in service and care group.
Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here.
Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete. The personal statement is exactly that; personal.
When selecting to apply via NHS Jobs, you will be redirected to our preferred recruitment system called Trac. You will be asked to create and submit your application via the Trac recruitment system.
You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. All communications should be sent via your Trac system account.
If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
30. JD (PDF, 160.6KB)
31. Person Specification (PDF, 120.7KB)
32. Candidate Application Best Practice Guide - please read before completing your application (PDF, 236.3KB)
33. Information for Candidates (PDF, 496.3KB)
34. Getting to Work at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (PDF, 501.0KB)
35. Applicants - How We Use Your Information (PDF, 87.4KB)
36. Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 124.0KB)
37. Staff Benefits (PDF, 2.7MB)
38. A Guide to Using Artificial Intelligence and With Your Personal Statement (PDF, 163.6KB)
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Further details / informal visits contact
NameRebekah MatthewsJob titleAssistant Head of Integrated Community CareEmail addressrebekah.matthews@nhs.netTelephone number07973801783