Nurse Team Leader

Nurse Team Leader – Lung Cancer Screening Service

Location: North East London, with travel across East and North Hertfordshire, West Essex, Harlow, Rainham, Havering, Waltham Forest and surrounding programme locations.

Salary: £46,000 + £4,200 Car Allowance or Company Car

Hours: Full Time, Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm

Flexible Working: Hours can be worked across 4 or 5 days per week, allowing you to achieve an excellent work-life balance.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated Lung Cancer Screening team while enjoying a highly flexible way of working. The role offers a blend of home-based and face-to-face working, giving you autonomy over your week while maintaining meaningful patient and stakeholder engagement.

You'll benefit from:

• No weekend working, allowing you to enjoy your evenings and weekends free.
• Flexible working patterns, with the option to work your contracted hours across 4 or 5 days per week.
• Predominantly home-based working, balancing remote leadership with clinical engagement.
• At least one on-site visit per month to deliver face-to-face clinics, support local teams, provide staff training and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
• A varied role combining leadership, patient care, service development and operational oversight.
• A company car or £4,200 car allowance.
• The opportunity to make a real impact within an expanding and innovative cancer screening service.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Nurse Team Leader who can confidently lead teams remotely while building strong relationships across clinic and programme locations throughout the region.

Help Save Lives Through Early Diagnosis

At our Lung Cancer Screening Service (LCSS), we're transforming patient outcomes by identifying lung cancer at its earliest and most treatable stage. As our service continues to grow, we're looking for an experienced and passionate Nurse Team Leader to lead and support our nursing teams across multiple screening programmes.

This is an exciting opportunity for a respiratory nurse with leadership experience who wants to make a genuine impact on patient care while developing and supporting a high-performing clinical team.

About the Role

As Nurse Team Leader, you will provide clinical and operational leadership to a team of Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care across our Lung Cancer Screening programme.

Reporting to the Clinical Lead, you will oversee the day-to-day running of the service, support workforce development, maintain clinical standards and contribute to continuous service improvement. You will also play a key role in nurse-led clinics, screening review meetings, the management of incidental findings and nodule surveillance pathways.

This is a predominantly Monday to Friday role with no weekend working. The position is largely home-based, with flexibility to work across 4 or 5 days per week. Travel across programme locations is required, including a minimum of one on-site visit each month for clinics, staff training, stakeholder engagement and service delivery activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, support and develop a team of Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.
• Provide clinical leadership and act as a visible role model across the service.
• Deliver nurse-led clinics and provide specialist respiratory expertise.
• Ensure high standards of patient care, safety and clinical governance.
• Support workforce planning, performance management and staff development.
• Participate in multidisciplinary meetings and screening review discussions.
• Oversee the management of nodule surveillance and incidental findings pathways.
• Support service audits, quality improvement projects and national pilot programmes.
• Build strong relationships with clinical stakeholders and partner organisations.
• Ensure compliance with national screening standards and organisational policies.

What We're Looking For

Essential

• Registered Nurse with an active NMC registration.
• Significant respiratory nursing experience.
• Previous people management experience.
• Experience leading and developing clinical teams.
• Strong communication, organisational and leadership skills.
• Confident clinical decision-maker with excellent assessment skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across programme locations.

Desirable

• Spirometry / ARTP accreditation.
• IRMER qualification (or willingness to undertake training).
• Smoking cessation qualification.
• Leadership, coaching or teaching qualification.
• Experience within screening services or cancer pathways.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you're a passionate respiratory nurse with leadership experience and a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in helping detect lung cancer earlier, improving outcomes for patients and leading a team that is making a real difference every day.

Apply today and be part of an innovative, growing service that is shaping the future of lung cancer screening.