Operational Team Lead

Job Summary

Join Our Team as a Band 7 Operational Team Lead!

A fantastic opportunity has opened to become a key leader within our community nursing service. As a Band 7 Operational Team Lead, you'll step into a dynamic and rewarding role where you'll help shape the future of high-quality care in your locality.

In this pivotal position, you'll work closely with the Clinical Lead to ensure the delivery of a safe, effective, and person‑centred community nursing service. Partnering with the District Nurse, you'll play a vital role in guiding and supporting a passionate Community Nursing team–ensuring excellence in practice, smooth day‑to‑day operations, and outstanding outcomes for the people we serve.

If you're ready to influence positive change, lead with purpose, and support a dedicated team, this could be the perfect next step in your nursing leadership journey.

Post holders will be available to work Monday to Sunday between 8am and 8pm. A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use if required for this post; reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Procare Community Services are not a UKVI sponsoring organisation, so all candidates are required to have their own independent right to work.

In this influential role, you'll provide vital support across localities to ensure that safe, high‑quality care is consistently delivered within the community.

Working in close partnership with the Clinical Lead and District Nurse, you'll lead and manage our dedicated community nursing team–overseeing patient care and incidents, championing staff development, upholding professional standards, and actively contributing to clinical governance. Your leadership will be highly visible, offering guidance, support, and motivation to colleagues as you help shape the culture and performance of the service.

This dynamic position blends 40% clinical practice with 60% management, giving you the opportunity to stay hands‑on in patient care while driving service improvement and team development.

For full details on what this role can offer you, please refer to the attached 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.

Date posted: 30 December 2025

Agenda for change

Band 7

£50,008 to £56,908 a year (Per Annum, Pro Rata inc. HCAS)

Permanent

Part‑time

067‑RD‑OPSLEADWAVERLEY

Milford Hospital

Tuesley Lane

Milford

GU7 1UF

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

The post holder will ensure that patients, service 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.

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