District Nurse Team Leader Hillingdon

Job summary

9 month Secondment Opportunity - District Nurse Team Leader Band 7 (Qualified DNSPQ)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified District Nurse with relevant experience including community nursing to join one of our District Nursing Teams in Hillingdon to cover maternity leave.

Our forward-thinking District Nursing teams are committed to the delivery of high-quality patient care.

As a District Nurse Team Leader or a Team Lead, you will play an integral part in leading the delivery and development of the service. This is an ideal role for an experienced District Nurse or a newly Specialist Qualified District Nurse looking to further develop their leadership skills and relevant experience including Community Nursing.

The successful candidate will hold the DNSPQ qualification and have significant experience of nursing at a Band 6 level or above and an understanding of community nursing is essential.

The post holder will provide management support and professional nurse leadership to all members of the nursing team. They will work with Senior Nurses in developing, implementing and reviewing any new initiatives involving District Nursing services and motivate staff to effect any necessary change.

The post holder will have to manage a clinical caseload, which will be GP attached. The caseload will consist of house bound patients but there are sites where commissioned wound clinics are also held.

The post holder will hold responsibility for all staff in their designated team where clinical and managerial support is paramount to the team and service development. The role also consists of change management where the DN Team Leader or Team Lead will support his / her own team to embed change positively.

As a Team Leader, you will work within an integrated service including specialist care teams such as palliative, tissue viability, bladder and bowel, cardiac, neurology, diabetes, rapid response and specialist therapy teams such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy. The District Nursing service is also supported by our evening Twilight team. All community services strive to work collaboratively to ensure individualised patient centred care alongside support from our GP colleagues and practices.

CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing integrated high quality, innovative healthcare. Our track record in recruiting only the best people is well known and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

Hillingdon is the second largest London borough by area, located 14 miles west of Central London. We are also leaders in developing our Hillingdon Health & Care Partnership working, united to enable shared services and Neighbourhood working across the whole of Hillingdon Borough. As we have Heathrow airport within our boundaries, it is thought that we are the gateway to the UK!

• Great team working and a supportive environment
• Outer London Weighting
• Training and career development opportunities
• Opportunities for research and audit to support innovative practice
• Intensive support from an assigned mentor and induction period.
• Open to flexible working patterns
• Personalised Clinical and Management Supervision
• DNTL Developmental Days
• Multi-disciplinary team working with other CNWL specialities
• Support from the Lead Nurses the DN Clinical Facilitator

Date posted: 14 September 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum incl. HCAS

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 9 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 3…