Job overview

Community Nurse Lead - Forest of Dean, Tewkesbury, Newent & Staunton Integrated Community Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nursing Lead (CNL) to join our established teams to work with our community nurses in the Forest, Tewkesbury, Newent & Staunton (TNS) Integrated Community Team. This post will be based in the TNS team from Tewkesbury Borough Council Offices. 

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 collaborative peer group of professionals within Community Nursing as well as Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Home First / Reablement. 

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

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.