Job overview
If you are an enthusiastic, experienced Community Staff Nurse, this is an exciting secondment opportunity to enhance and develop your leadership knowledge and skills within the dynamic role of a Community Nursing Deputy Team Leader.
These permanent posts will see the successful candidates working alongside the District Nurse Team Leader, assisting in managing and leading a Community Nursing Team. In addition, you will work in collaboration with the wider Integrated Community Care/Primary Care services to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and patient focused planned and unplanned care at home.
Main duties of the job
- In collaboration with the District Nurse Team Leader, lead and manage the Evenings and Nights Community Nursing Team, monitoring standards of care, delegating responsibilities and supervise team members as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain appropriate communication systems. Working closely with patients/carers and families and other members of the integrated care team and statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Working in partnership with other agencies, act as care manager for identified patients in order to prevent inappropriate hospital admission.
- In collaboration with the wider integrated care team provide care planning, support, treatment and monitoring to patients on the general case load.
- In collaboration with the Team Leader, manage resources effectively and advise on skill mix requirements for the team.
- In collaboration with the Team Leader, assist with the management of team budgets.
- Positively participate in and promote Clinical Governance, thus ensuring the highest quality of practice is maintained, within the service. Demonstrate the use of evidence based practice and participation in clinical audit.
- In collaboration with the Team Leader assist with performance reviews within the team in order to contribute to team and corporate objectives, encouraging and supporting development of staff and maintenance of personal development plans.
- Ensure team members undertake mandatory training requirements.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with; Older people, Palliative Care, chronic disease
- Continuing professional knowledge and development.
- Experience of teaching and mentorship.
- Evidence of knowledge and experience of Case Management
- Change management and leadership skills
- Working in partnership with other healthcare providers, Social services etc
- Experience In the management of staff
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
Desirable
- Mental Health Experience
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working and Case Management models
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Level 1
- District Nurse degree or equivalent qualification/experience (or a willingness to complete DN Qualification as directed by management)
- Experience of administration of Intravenous medications (or a willingness to complete training within an agreed timescale)
- Mentorship qualification or equivalent qualification/experience
- To have completed the national practice assessor training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
Desirable
- Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber / Independent Prescriber
- Masters level study in long term conditions
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Due to the requirement to undertake visits and transport non-portable equipment, the post holder is required to be either a car driver with a valid driving licence or have access to an alternative means of transport
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- Willingness to learn new skills
- Flexibility
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Sound understanding of Primary care and multi-agency working
- Awareness of the value of audit/research and evidence-based practice
- Awareness of NHS issues
- IT skllls
- Audit skills
- Evidence of ability to communicate both verbally and in writing at all levels in multi-disciplinary forum and with users and carers.
- Able to organise and coordinate services in collaboration with, and in the absence of the District Nurse Team Leader
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This advert is for Deputy Team Leader Community Nursing - Evenings and Nights Service with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 pa/pro rata for part time staff. The contract type is Permanent: Evenings and Night Community Nursing Service.. The application deadline is 05 Jul 2026.
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