Community Team Lead
| Posting date: | 09 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £55,690 to £62,682 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690 - £62682 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 January 2026 |
| Location: | Newport, PO30 2ER |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0508-VC341 |
Summary
Key Responsibilities: To influence the care of patients and carers with palliative and end of life care needs either directly or indirectly using advanced clinical knowledge and best evidence based practices. To be involved and work in close liaison with other appropriate multidisciplinary teams and agencies within and outside Mountbatten. To develop effective links and promote good relationships with other hospices, community services, social services, voluntary sector, and private sector. To support the team to develop highly specialist knowledge and expertise on pain and symptom management, other physical symptoms, psychological, social and spiritual support. Provide strong, compassionate, professional leadership, supervision, and guidance to the team. To incorporate a range of strategies to motivate and empower both individuals and the team to take responsibility for building personal resilience to address challenges of working within a specialist palliative care environment. Actively participates in multi-professional meetings, acting as patient advocate and represents nursing views To act within and support the development and implementation of approved guidelines, processes and polices of the Mountbatten Group To maintain own professional registration complying with the professional standards and identify own development needs. To have a proactive approach to self-development, actively assessing own education/training/development needs in relation to the role and utilising appropriate resources to meet these needs. To ensure that education and training needs for staff in the community team are identified through the annual appraisal process. To ensure staff within the team receive regular support via 1:1s and team meetings To promote a culture in the team of support through clinical supervision opportunities Lead on agreed projects and development of patient services within the community and wider hospice services, ensure the community nursing team remains an integral part of the development of the whole clinical service. Communication and Relationships Able to communicate effectively using skills of sensitivity, diplomacy, negotiation, and motivation within multiple complex settings Able to build and maintain therapeutic working relationships in order to enhance specialist palliative care provision Acts as a role model demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership to others Ensure the Consultant Nurse/Director of Nursing is informed of any significant changes in the day to day running of the locality team Evidences compassionate leadership and upholds Mountbatten Values Acts as a role model for excellent advanced communication skills and expertise Works across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem-solving Demonstrates skills in conflict resolution and competent negotiation skills when dealing with difficult or challenging situations To promote safeguarding awareness and responsiveness within the community team, championing safeguarding as everyone's responsibility. Analysis and Judgement Advanced levels of clinical decision-making through specialist assessment and interpretation of clinical information to support patients/carers who have complex or rapidly changing physical symptoms, emotional or practical needs. Demonstrate ability to challenge behaviour and practices, being proactive in using risk assessment and incident reporting. To monitor service delivery data to ensure all patients and families are receiving timely and appropriate care Clinical Practice and Development To support the community team to deliver services in times of need, for example, staff shortages. To support individual colleagues in delivering care from a supervision, mentorship, development perspective To ensure the community service is delivered equitably To review and develop service delivery to meet changing patient needs and respond to challenges in the wider health and social care world. To ensure service delivery upholds Mountbatten's reputation Please refer to the attached Job Description, which includes the Person Specification, for the full duties of this rewarding role with us here at Mountbatten.