Community Nurse Lead - Band 7 (North Cotswolds)

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people's own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking 'what matters to you'.
We're passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust., We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nursing Lead to join our established teams to work with our community nurses in North Cotswolds Integrated Community Team (ICT). Due to our vast geographical area, our Cotswolds Locality has two main teams - one in North Cotswolds and the other in South Cotswolds. We are looking to recruit a Community Nursing Lead who will lead our nurses within North Cotswolds ICT, and together with our two Community Nursing Leads in South Cotswolds will support us to lead & deliver a wide range of community nursing care across the whole locality.
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, Occupational Therapy and Home First / Reablement., 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 .
For more information or a chat about the team and our roles please contact Melanie Richmond, Community Manager for Cotswolds ICT on 07989-350-211 or Nancy Farr, Head of Profession for Community Nursing on 07917-557-902. We look forward to hearing from you.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
+ 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
+ 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
+ 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
+ 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
+ Free car parking at many of our sites
+ 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
+ A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
+ A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Social Workers, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
+ Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
+ Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
+ Recognition and long service awards
+ Fast Track physiotherapy
+ Our Wellbeing line
+ Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.