Community Nursing Lead – Cheltenham: Sponsorship Available

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This role is offered on a 12 month fixed term.

Are you an experienced practitioner with a strong track record in Operational and Clinical leadership? Do you have the vision to know what great community nursing care looks like and the passion to help us reshape the way we deliver care?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nursing Lead (CNL) to join our established teams to work with our community nurses in the Cheltenham Integrated Community Team.

The role is diverse, varied and practice focused, upholding the professional standards of practice, innovating service developments and working in collaboration with colleagues to create an outstanding service for the patients and families we work with. You will join an established, highly experienced peer group of Professionals within Community Nursing as well as Physiotherapy and Health Occupational Therapy.

Main duties of the job

What will your role involve:

  • You will clinically lead, supervise and manage a community nursing team working closely alongside them each day providing both direct and indirect patient care.
  • Apply your Clinical operational experience, maintaining and improving quality, monitoring standards utilising data, audits and reports.
  • Identify service delivery development or system opportunities working with our partners across Health & Social care and community networks.
  • Build Key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote and build community nursing services

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A relevant Occupational qualification
  • NMC registration
  • Educated to degree (level 6) (or diploma equivalent)
  • Extended skills qualifications relevant to the discipline ( District Nurse SPQ)

Desirable

  • Hold a recognised teaching and assessment/ mentoring qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Post registration Community Nursing Experience
  • Clinical team leadership including professional and clinical supervision to staff at a variety of level

Desirable

  • Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Use of electronic clinical recording system – S1 or similar system

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 27 September 2026

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