Overview
District Nurse Team Lead / Community Nursing Team Lead- SDH&C
Join to apply for the District Nurse Team Lead / Community Nursing Team Lead- SDH&C role at Surrey Downs Health & Care Partnership. An opportunity has arisen to join the Leatherhead PCN team as a Band 7 Community Nursing Team lead on a full-time (37.5 hours/week), permanent basis.
The successful candidate would be welcomed into an established community nurse team who work closely with members of the wider multidisciplinary team across the PCN and across Surrey Downs Health and Care. We have a strong focus on staff support and development, encouraging opportunities for further learning. If you are looking for an employer that is working to remove traditional boundaries and barriers, bringing care to patients when and where they need it, and you want to work alongside motivated, passionate and visionary colleagues we look forward to hearing from you.
Summary The District Nurse Team Lead and Community Nursing Team Lead roles within Surrey Downs Health and Care (SDHC) are Band 7 leadership positions responsible for delivering high-quality, person-centered care in the community. Each role involves leading and managing a community nursing team, overseeing the assessment, planning, and implementation of care, ensuring staff development, maintaining professional standards, and contributing to clinical governance and risk management strategies. Both positions are identical in core duties—promoting integrated care, supporting workforce planning, change management, managing resources, and participating in KPIs and audits. Both roles emphasize respect, collaboration, safeguarding, and high delivery of care to patients and staff.
To provide leadership within the District Nursing Team and be responsible for the assessment of needs of the patient and the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of care within agreed standards. The post holder will undertake facilitation of educational programmes for basic, post basic and in-service training, in close liaison with the Learning and Development Team. To lead and facilitate patient focused, innovative research based practice, in line with Surrey Downs Health and Care objectives. Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health And Care has a track record of providing person-centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes: The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area; Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust; Surrey Council County.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before. In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: George Hilditch, Job title: Leatherhead Operational Manager, Email: george.hilditch@nhs.net, Telephone: 07917 233266
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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