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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Operational Lead for Community Nursing

The closing date is 18 September 2025

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for Operational Lead for Community Nursing, where you'll drive service excellence, lead transformational change, and support our community nursing teams. This is a rewarding opportunity to manage and support staff, champion innovation, and ensure high-quality care delivery in the heart of the community.

Key skills required:

  • Registered District Nurse qualification
  • Proven experience in leading change and service improvement
  • Strong people management and team leadership skills
  • Excellent communication and organisational abilities

Main duties of the job

  • Responsible for the operational leadership and management of designated Community Nursing Teams.
  • To actively lead the development of community nursing teams through staff engagement and workforce development.
  • To work with community, primary and secondary care services, supporting the development, facilitation and implementation of robust strategies for admissions avoidance and hospital discharge.
  • Establish effective working partnerships with all members of the Inter-disciplinary Team (IDT) and multi-agency team within Community, Primary and secondary care to develop effective patient pathways between services.
  • To work with appropriate professional leads and clinical/operational managers to ensure professional development of all staff within the integrated care team.
  • Actively engage with partner agencies in developing effective and efficient Integrated Community Teams across Sheffield.
  • Work with appropriate colleagues to implement Safeguarding Adult policies ensuring robust reporting mechanisms are in place within the business unit.
  • To engage with the clinical governance agenda of the Directorate, Care Group and wider organisations.
  • To develop and maintain effective relationships and networks with all stakeholders.
  • Line manage the staff in the pathway ensuring personal objectives are aligned with the service and care group objectives to achieve key performance targets.

About us

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Details

Date posted

04 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year pa/pro rata for part time staff

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

190-0797-DIR

Job locations

Firth Park Clinic

North Quadrant

Sheffield

S5 6NU


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Registered nurse with District Nurse Specialist Practitioner qualification
  • Management business/leadership qualification at post graduate level or equivalent experience/ knowledge
  • Evidence of continuous personal and professional development

Experience

Essential

  • Significant clinical/managerial leadership experience, including line management of staff, e.g. sickness/absence, recruitment/selection and managing complex and challenging change initiatives in a multi-disciplinary arena.
  • Experience of strategic development and understanding the effects of implementation/evaluation and review.
  • Experience and understanding of the complexity of managing services across statutory and non-statutory boundaries.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Comprehensive understanding of Community Services and Care Closer to Home, local and national drivers. Extensive knowledge of working in integrated care teams.
  • Knowledge of NHS financial management and of working in a multi -disciplinary environment to include aspects of - pricing, costing, budgeting and performance management.
  • Experience of change management in complex situations.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Excellent communication (both verbal and written)
  • Able to establish effective working relationships and forge bonds with all relevant stakeholders

Specialist Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Evidence of successfully undertaking a lead role in a project/ audit
  • Project management skills.
  • Evidence of the successful application of a change management project.
  • Able to produce reports for Senior Management in service and care group.
Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Registered nurse with District Nurse Specialist Practitioner qualification
  • Management business/leadership qualification at post graduate level or equivalent experience/ knowledge
  • Evidence of continuous personal and professional development

Experience

Essential

  • Significant clinical/managerial leadership experience, including line management of staff, e.g. sickness/absence, recruitment/selection and managing complex and challenging change initiatives in a multi-disciplinary arena.
  • Experience of strategic development and understanding the effects of implementation/evaluation and review.
  • Experience and understanding of the complexity of managing services across statutory and non-statutory boundaries.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Comprehensive understanding of Community Services and Care Closer to Home, local and national drivers. Extensive knowledge of working in integrated care teams.
  • Knowledge of NHS financial management and of working in a multi -disciplinary environment to include aspects of - pricing, costing, budgeting and performance management.
  • Experience of change management in complex situations.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Excellent communication (both verbal and written)
  • Able to establish effective working relationships and forge bonds with all relevant stakeholders

Specialist Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Evidence of successfully undertaking a lead role in a project/ audit
  • Project management skills.
  • Evidence of the successful application of a change management project.
  • Able to produce reports for Senior Management in service and care group.

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).

Additional information

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Firth Park Clinic

North Quadrant

Sheffield

S5 6NU


Employer's website

https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Firth Park Clinic

North Quadrant

Sheffield

S5 6NU


Employer's website

https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Assistant Head of Integrated Community Care

Rebekah Matthews

rebekah.matthews@nhs.net

07973801783

Details

Date posted

04 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year pa/pro rata for part time staff

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

190-0797-DIR

Job locations

Firth Park Clinic

North Quadrant

Sheffield

S5 6NU


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