Neighbourhood Nursing Locality Nurse Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of neighbourhood nursing. As a Locality Nurse Manager, you will be at the forefront of delivering the Neighbourhood Health Plan, working in partnership with Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) to lead the frailty pathway. You will champion integrated working across health and social care, influence service development, and ensure high-quality, proactive care for people living with frailty and long term conditions within the community. You will have extensive nursing experience preferably in a community setting with demonstrable management and leadership capability.

The post is responsible for the delivery of all aspects of agreed outputs for the teams and service. As a visible and experienced leader you will manage risk, governance and performance, hold financial accountability for the delivery of service within the financial envelope and contribute to organisational savings, develop staff capability and the management of demand and capacity. As a people person you will have excellent communication skills and a track record of managing staff with compassion whilst delivering high standards and service KPI's. Skilled in managing competing demands you will have impeccable organisational and time management skills.

Two posts available, one substantive and one secondment for approx. 10 months covering two large Integrated Neighbourhood Teams NN based teams each., The candidate will manage and lead at least two neighbourhood nursing INT areas providing cover for the absence of colleagues where necessary and in addition. The post is responsible for the delivery of all aspects of agreed outputs for the teams and service. As a visible and experienced leader you will manage risk, governance and performance, hold financial accountability for the delivery of service within the financial envelope and contribute to organisational savings, develop staff capability and the management of demand and capacity. As a people person you will have excellent communication skills and a track record of managing staff with compassion whilst delivering high standards and service KPI's. Skilled in managing competing demands you will have impeccable organisational and time management skills, be able to adapt verbal and written communication to a range of audience and circumstance, attend and contribute to service, GP, INT and other meetings, guide and support staff
through turbulence and change and hold your staff to account.

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.