Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
District Team Leader
The closing date is 03 November 2025
Part Time (30 hours) and Full Time (37.50 hours) vacancies available at:
Fulwood Park Clinic - PR2 8JB
Leyland House - PR26 6TY
This is an exciting time to join our Community District Nursing Services as Community Specialist Practitioner within the Central locality in two locations across our footprint (Chorley, South Ribble and Preston). If you are looking for a new challenge, are passionate about delivering the very best high quality, safe, effective care in a high performing NHS Foundation Trust then this may be the opportunity you have been waiting for.
We are looking for motivated and qualified staff with the Specialist Practitioner Qualification, who will be a part of developing and driving our integrated approach to care, so that we can fully embrace and utilise these benefits to provide the best outcomes for our patients.
As part of LSCFT you will be supported to professionally develop and encouraged to continuously learn whilst considering new ways of working. The Community Specialist Practitioner will be a key member of the senior nursing and leadership team, responsible for providing the very best care to the patients in their own homes. In addition you will be part of leading a team who are patient focused with excellence at its core, maintaining and improving professional standards and developments of the future workforce.
For further information about these roles and/or informal chat or visit please contact us using the details provided
Main duties of the job
Applicants will need to demonstrate their competency and experience in line with the person specification and will be required to work flexibly across a seven day rota.
To provide professional leadership to a District Nursing Team and to facilitate a culture of learning and reflective practice within that team.
To assume continuous responsibility for appropriate deployment and supervision of staff for the effective management of a defined caseload.
To provide clinical leadership in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of high quality evidence based nursing care to patients in their own homes and other community settings, to ensure that the care needs of the caseload are met.
To provide direct clinical care to patients with identified specialist or complex needs.
To work to a defined shift pattern with a service responsible for the provision of care 24/7 365 days per year.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Knowledge
* Understanding of Clinical Governance / Standards for Better Health agenda
* Palliative Care
* Knowledge and experience of managing long term medical conditions
Experience
* Managerial / Leadership experience
* Recruitment and selection experience
* Experience of conducting Appraisal / performance reviews
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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