Community Nursing Lead - Cheltenham

Job summary
This role is offered on a 12 month fixed term.

Are you an experienced practitioner with a strong track record in Operational and Clinical leadership? Do you have the vision to know what great community nursing care looks like and the passion to help us reshape the way we deliver care?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nursing Lead (CNL) to join our established teams to work with our community nurses in the Cheltenham Integrated Community Team.

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 and Health Occupational Therapy.

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

About us
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.

Details
Date posted: 01 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum plus 2% enhancement for on call
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 327-26-689
Job locations: Cheltenham Integrated Community Teams, Independent Living Centre, Village Road, Cheltenham, GL51 0BY, United Kingdom

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

The Trust aims to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services. It is the Trusts view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

To ensure you fully understand how the Trust, as a Data Controller, will process and store your data please read the attached document Applicant and Staff Privacy Notice prior to applying for the role.

Candidates for any staff appointment shall, when making application, disclose in writing to the Trust whether they are related to any governor. Failure to disclose such a relationship may disqualify a candidate and, if appointed, may render them liable to dismissal.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust are proud to have been recognised as a Veteran Aware Trust, evidencing the provision of the best care for Veterans and driving to improve the care for veterans and their families. Find out more about this by clicking on the link at the right-hand side, titled Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• A relevant Occupational qualification
• NMC registration
• Educated to degree (level 6) (or diploma equivalent)
• Extended skills qualifications relevant to the discipline ( District Nurse SPQ)

Desirable

• Hold a recognised teaching and assessment/ mentoring qualification

Experience
Essential

• Post registration Community Nursing Experience
• Clinical team leadership including professional and clinical supervision to staff at a variety of level

Desirable

• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Use of electronic clinical recording system - S1 or similar system

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.

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.