Service Lead Neighbourhood Nursing Service | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £75,328 - £86,114 p.a. inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2026 |
| Location: | Londdon, SE1 7EU |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7886318/196-NM13784-N |
Summary
The Service Lead for Neighbourhood Nursing provides senior clinical and operational leadership across the service, working jointly with a second Service Lead and the Directorate Management Team to ensure the delivery of high‑quality, safe and effective patient care. The postholder is jointly responsible for meeting key performance indicators, managing resources, and ensuring the service operates within financial and clinical governance frameworks. They will maintain a visible clinical presence, offering senior expertise, supervision and support to teams, while upholding the highest professional standards.
The role includes accountability for staff management, appraisal systems, workforce development, recruitment, induction and professional supervision. The Service Lead promotes a culture of learning and continuous improvement, ensuring robust investigation of incidents and complaints, while driving quality assurance, infection prevention and control, and evidence‑based practice.
The postholder will contribute to strategic planning, service redesign and the implementation of Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) working. They also support research, education and training initiatives, uphold excellent patient experience, and represent the Trust across internal and external forums. The role requires strong leadership, performance management, and the ability to foster collaborative working to deliver integrated, patient‑centred neighbourhood nursing services
Closing date: 17th April 2026
Interview date: 15th May 2026
The Service Lead for Neighbourhood Nursing provides senior leadership, ensuring delivery of high‑quality, safe and effective patient care. The role includes overseeing the deployment of resources, monitoring performance against clinical, financial and operational targets, and taking timely action where standards fall or risks arise. The postholder holds managerial accountability for supporting, supervising and developing staff, ensuring robust appraisal, job planning, induction, professional supervision, and competency development across the service.
The Service Lead maintains a senior presence, contributing to patient‑facing care and offering expert guidance. They ensure full compliance with clinical governance requirements, leading on incident investigation, Duty of Candour, complaints handling, and the implementation of learning and improvement plans. The role provides clinical leadership for infection prevention and control, guideline implementation, antibiotic stewardship, FP10 prescribing and alignment with agreed standards.
They drive quality assurance through audit, risk management, performance monitoring, and delivery on KPI, The postholder leads service improvement, contributes to strategic planning, and supports the development of research, education and training. Additional responsibilities include representing the Trust in internal and external forums, acting as investigating or hearing officer, and maintaining their own clinical practice and registration.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest, and most successful healthcare Trusts, renowned for clinical excellence, research and education. Staff contribute to a wide range of hospital and community services across South London, while supporting nationally recognised specialist programmes including cancer, renal and cardiovascular. The Trust’s major sites host leading facilities such as the Guy’s Cancer Centre and one of the country’s biggest critical care and emergency departments.
Working within the Trust means being part of an organisation committed to delivering outstanding patient experience, maintaining some of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS, and continually developing innovative models of care. The integration with the Royal Brompton and Harefield has strengthened its position as a world‑leading heart and lung centre.
Staff benefit from a supportive, inclusive culture shaped by the Trust’s values—Caring, Ambitious and Inclusive—and reflected in high workforce engagement. Community services, including Integrated Local Services, play a vital role in providing care closer to home and work in partnership with GPs, local authorities and voluntary organisations. With more than 23,500 employees and one of the NHS’s most ambitious investment programmes, Guy’s and St Thomas’ offers a dynamic, collaborative and forward‑thinking environment where staff can thrive and make a meaningful difference to patient care
Leadership & Management
• Provide senior clinical and operational leadership for the Neighbourhood Nursing service.
• Deliver agreed clinical, financial and operational performance targets.
• Ensure effective resource deployment and escalate risks where necessary.
• Maintain a visible presence across teams and support MDT working.
• Hold managers and teams to account through regular performance reviews.
Clinical Governance & Quality
• Lead investigations, Duty of Candour and complaints management.
• Ensure compliance with Trust policies, national standards and IPC requirements.
• Oversee guideline updates, audit activity, KPIs and risk management processes.
• Promote learning from incidents, near misses and patient feedback.
• Uphold high standards of infection prevention, antibiotic stewardship and safety.
Workforce & Professional Standards
• Manage staff performance, supervision, enhanced appraisal and job planning.
• Lead induction, recruitment, retention and workforce development.
• Ensure robust professional supervision, revalidation readiness and competency assessment.
• Support clinical placements and ensure environments are suitable for learners.
Service Improvement & Strategy
• Lead service improvement initiatives and contribute to organisational strategy.
• Support integrated working with partners across health, social care and voluntary sectors.
• Represent the Trust at internal and external forums as required.
Education, Training & Clinical Role
• Maintain own clinical practice and deliver senior clinical input via a job plan.
• Support research, education and ongoing training across the service
This advert closes on Friday 17 Apr 2026