District Nurse Team Lead

Main area Adult Community Physical Health Services Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (one weekend every four weeks) Job  
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Site Royal borough of Greenwich Town Royal Borough of Greenwich Salary £55,524 - £62,652 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 11/10/2026 23:59

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Band 7 District Nurse Team Leader,
Greenwich Neighbourhood Nursing Team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 District Nurse Team Leader to join the Greenwich Neighbourhood Nursing Team at a time of significant service transformation.

As part of our move to neighbourhood-based working, you will play a key role in leading integrated care delivery alongside primary care, social care and community partners, ensuring patients receive high-quality care closer to home.

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 District Nurse ready to take the next step, or an existing Band 7 leader seeking a new challenge. You will support patients with frailty, long-term conditions, complex healthcare needs and end-of-life care requirements while helping shape the future of community nursing services.

Join us and help deliver outstanding community nursing care across Greenwich.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to influence and shape future neighbourhood nursing services.
• Supportive leadership and professional development opportunities.
• Access to training, career progression and leadership programmes.
• A collaborative team environment focused on patient care and staff wellbeing

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational leadership to a neighbourhood nursing team.
• Support and develop staff to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary and neighbourhood partners.
• Drive service improvement, workforce development and clinical governance.
• Ensure high-quality care for housebound patients and those with complex needs.

You will:

• Hold a Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing or have equivalent senior community nursing experience.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, clinical and organisational skills.
• Be passionate about integrated neighbourhood working and improving patient outcomes.
• Have excellent communication and team development skills.
• Be committed to quality, safety and continuous improvement.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by…