District Nurse Team Leader

Go back North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (BCH)

The closing date is 25 October 2026

Are you a Registered Nurse with a Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing? If so, this could be an exciting next stepin your career.

At Bridgewater, we are seeking experienced, motivated, and forward-thinking professionals to join our District Nursing Teams, supporting the diverse care needs of the Warrington population. This role offers afantastic opportunity to enhance your professional development, work closelyalongside our established leaders, and contribute to effective role modelling across the service.

Successful candidates will deliver holistic, autonomous,evidence-based nursing care to patients under the Warrington District Nursing Service. In addition to clinical responsibilities, you will undertake key management duties with the support and guidance of our Team Leaders and District Nurse Coordinators. You will work collaboratively with a range of professionals and stakeholders across the Warrington footprint, playing an integral role in shaping high-quality community nursing provision.

A commitment to ongoing professional development is essential.

If you are seeking greater flexibility to support yourworklife balance, we welcome applications from individuals looking for alternative working patterns. All flexible working requests will be considered in line with the needs of the service.

Join us and be part of a dynamic, supportive, and forward-thinking team making a real difference in community healthcare.

The role of the District Nurse involves actively managinga complex and varied caseload while delivering holistic, evidence-based carethat adapts to patients changing health needs. You will carry outcomprehensive assessments, plan and evaluate care, and utilise your prescribing skills to support safe and effective clinical practice. A key aspect of therole includes contributing to the management of complex and continuing carepackages and undertaking chronic disease reviews for housebound patients.

You will work collaboratively with patients, carers,stakeholders, and wider community teams, often in challenging situations,ensuring communication remains clear, compassionate, and professional. The role requires competence in a wide range of clinical skills, the ability to work autonomously, and strong problem-solving abilities. You will also contribute tohealth needs assessments, participate in audit and critical appraisal to maintain high standards of care, and ensure accurate documentation in line withNMC standards.

District Nurses work as part of a rota to support weekendservice delivery, helping to ensure continuity of high-quality care across the Warrington community.

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.

Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).

They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission

We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision

We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our values

• Kind:
  We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone
• Open:
  We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair:
  We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team:
  We work well together and with our communities

Job Purpose:

The post holder will manage a caseload of registered patients within a team or team(s). The post holder will delegate the workload to the community nurses, healthcare assistants and nursing assistants as appropriate and as defined by the priority/acuity of the caseload and liaise with all health care professionals and other agencies within the wider community to ensure effective service delivery.

The post holder will work under the direction of the District Nurse Coordinator and will be responsible for the assessment of patient need.

The post holder will…