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Generous holiday
Personal pension plan
Employee assistance programme
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The vacancy
Operational Team Leader - Community Palliative Care Team
Hours: This role is offered at 37.5 hours per week. Applications are welcome from candidates seeking to work 32 hours per week or more over 4 days, subject to service requirements.
St Gemma’s Hospice Community Services is seeking an experienced, compassionate and registered nurse to provide operational leadership to our Community Specialist Palliative Care Team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly regarded community service and play a key role in supporting the delivery of safe, responsive, equitable and person-centred specialist palliative and end of life care for patients, families and carers across the community.
As Operational Team Leader, you will provide day-to-day operational leadership and oversight for the Community Specialist Palliative Care Team. You will support effective service coordination, referral flow, triage arrangements, safe staffing, caseload management, prioritisation, escalation of risk and service responsiveness.
You will line manage and support Band 7 Senior Clinical Nurse Specialists and work through them to support consistent leadership, practice and performance across locality/cluster teams. You will also play an important role in staff wellbeing, professional development, performance conversations, workforce planning and creating a positive, inclusive and psychologically safe team culture.
Working closely with the Leeds Hospices Integrated Community Specialist Palliative Care Services Lead, the Nurse Consultant for the City-Wide Inclusion Service, medical colleagues and wider multidisciplinary partners, you will support the implementation of agreed service priorities, pathways, quality improvements and consistent ways of working across the service.
We are looking for someone who can combine strong operational leadership with specialist clinical credibility in palliative and end of life care. You will be confident supporting complex clinical decision-making, managing competing operational pressures, using service data to inform decisions, and leading with compassion, clarity and professionalism.
To be a successful candidate, you will need:
This role would suit a compassionate and confident leader who is motivated by improving services for patients, families, carers and staff, and who can bring stability, clarity and energy to a developing community service.
For informal enquiries, please contact Jo Neiland at joneiland@st-gemma.co.uk
We encourage informal visits or conversations for anyone interested in the role. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to take part in a stakeholder panel and formal interview as part of the selection process.
Closing date: Wednesday 26th August 2026 at noon
Interview and stakeholder panel dates: Date to be confirmed
We encourage early applications and reserve the right to invite candidates to interview prior to the closing date and/or close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
About us
St Gemma’s Hospice is an independent Leeds-based charity and one of the leading hospices in the UK, providing expert care and support for local people with life-limiting and terminal illnesses. We offer care to patients, families and carers in the Hospice’s In-Patient Unit, through the St Gemma’s community team, and at our Out-Patients.
We have around 300 employees working across the main Hospice site in Moortown, Retail Hub in Bramley, a large chain of charity shops, and out in the community. We offer career opportunities both in our multi-disciplinary clinical team and in a wide range of non-clinical roles, all of which contribute towards local patient care. St Gemma’s Hospice has a team of approximately 800 volunteers, working in a variety of roles supporting departments throughout the organisation.
St Gemma’s is committed to equal opportunities and strives to be diverse and inclusive, a place which reflects the communities we serve. We offer a competitive range of benefits with an emphasis on staff well-being in a caring and friendly environment.
The benefits
Maternity / Paternity
leave
Generous holiday
Personal pension plan
Employee assistance programme
Free parking (Hospice Site)
Wellbeing support
Subsidised Meals (Hospice Site)
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