Senior Sister

Job Introduction
As a Band 7 Senior Sister, you will play a key leadership role within our Community Nursing Service, leading a dedicated team to deliver outstanding care to patients in their own homes and local communities.This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced community nursing leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while developing and supporting others to achieve their full potential. You will be responsible for leading a team of nurses, overseeing a complex community caseload and ensuring services are delivered safely, effectively and in line with best practice.You will work closely with colleagues across health and social care, helping to shape and develop services that improve outcomes for patients while supporting the wider strategic objectives of the organisation. This is a varied and rewarding role that combines clinical expertise, operational leadership and service improvement.

Package Description
You will be joining a supportive and experienced Community Nursing leadership team that is committed to delivering high-quality care and achieving the best outcomes for patients. The service encourages innovation, collaboration and professional development, creating an environment where leaders are empowered to make a meaningful impact.As part of HCRG Care Group, you will receive:

• NHS Agenda for Change Band 7 salary with an NHS pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases, plus cashback and voucher offers for treats and essentials
• Access to your wages as you earn them, helping cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest borrowing
• Online and in-person wellbeing support, including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
• Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and professional development opportunities through our Outstanding Learning Enterprise team
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to contribute ideas, backed by ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation where the majority of our rated services hold Good or Outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities
As a Senior Sister, you will provide leadership and management for a Community Nursing Team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based care to patients with a wide range of complex health needs.You will be responsible for managing and overseeing the community nursing caseload, ensuring patients receive high-quality care that promotes independence, prevents unnecessary hospital admissions and enhances quality of life. You will support the development of clinical practice, ensuring your team is equipped with the skills, knowledge and confidence required to deliver excellent care.Alongside your clinical leadership responsibilities, you will play a key role in workforce development, performance management, service improvement and quality assurance. You will use data, patient feedback and clinical outcomes to drive continuous improvement while maintaining a positive and supportive team culture.Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and managing a Community Nursing Team
• Overseeing the delivery of high-quality clinical care across a complex community caseload
• Supporting staff development through supervision, mentorship, appraisal and training
• Ensuring safe staffing, workload allocation and effective resource management
• Supporting patients with complex care needs, long-term conditions and end of life care
• Promoting evidence-based practice and clinical excellence across the service
• Managing performance, attendance and professional development within the team
• Leading on service improvement initiatives, audits and quality assurance activities
• Working collaboratively with GPs, community teams, acute services and partner organisations
• Supporting the management of incidents, complaints and safeguarding concerns

Person Specification
Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Degree level qualification or evidence of working towards degree level study
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Leadership or management qualification, or willingness to work towards
• Significant post-registration nursing experience, including community nursing experience
• Experience managing patients with complex and long-term healthcare needs
• Experience leading, managing or supervising staff
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills
• Strong communication, leadership and organisational skills
• Ability to work autonomously and manage competing priorities
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office and electronic patient records
• Full UK driving licence

Desirable

• Independent Prescribing qualification (V300), or willingness to undertake
• Physical assessment skills
• Experience leading service development or quality improvement initiatives
• Understanding of CQC requirements and quality assurance processes
• Knowledge of clinical audit and governance frameworks

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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.

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

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.