Operational Team Leader

Are you a passionate and motivated community nurse ready to take the next step into leadership?

We are looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 7 Community Nursing Team Lead to join our supportive and forward\-thinking community nursing service, providing leadership across both day and night teams.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high\-quality, compassionate care to patients in their own homes. Working closely with the Clinical Lead and District Nurse, you will help ensure services remain safe, effective, and truly patient\-centred—24/7\.

About the Role

As Team Lead, you will:

Provide strong, visible leadership to a skilled team of community nurses

Support the delivery of excellent clinical care across day and night services

Promote a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team culture

Drive continuous improvement and service development

Support staff growth through mentorship, supervision, and development opportunities

Ensure smooth, coordinated service delivery at all times

Your leadership will have a real and lasting impact on patient outcomes, staff experience, and service quality.

In this key leadership role, you will support our community nursing services across the day and night teams to ensure the consistent delivery of safe, high‑quality, and compassionate care throughout the night.

Working in partnership with the Clinical Lead and District Nurse, you will lead and support the community nursing team, taking a central role in coordinating patient care, managing incidents, promoting staff development, and upholding high professional standards. You will also contribute to clinical governance and service improvement, helping our night service continue to evolve to meet the needs of the communities we serve.

Your leadership will be visible, proactive, and supportive — fostering a positive team culture where staff feel valued, motivated, and empowered to deliver exceptional overnight care.

This is a varied and rewarding position, combining approximately 40% clinical practice with 60% leadership and management responsibilities , allowing you to remain hands‑on in patient care while also driving improvements in service delivery, team development, and patient outcomes.

For full details on responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.

The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.

With a strong emphasis on high\-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.

We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution\-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for specific details of this role and its responsibilities.

The post holder will ensure that patients, services users, families, and carers have a positive safe and high\-quality experience when accessing and receiving care, treatment, advice and support from Procare employees and will ensure learning is shared and embedded in situations where things did not go as well as they should have.

Patients are the most important people in the health service and are at the centre of primary and community health care services. As patients and carers are the ‘experts’ in how they feel and what it is like to live with or care for someone with an illness or condition, all Procare employees are guided by real experience of our services to guide quality and service improvements.

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