Deputy Team Leader District Nursing

Job overview

Band 6 - Deputy Team Lead

We are looking to recruit  a qualified specialist District Nurse practitioner with good clinical assessment and decision-making skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to manage a caseload effectively and prioritize tasks.

You will receive monthly supervision with your Team Leader and participate fully in a monthly senior nurses meeting, daily nursing handover, fortnightly Pressure Ulcer meeting and a range of other Band 6 responsibilities. You will play a vital role in ensuring the service operates at the highest level and be able to put into practice and develop your clinical and managerial supervision skills.

Main duties of the job

You will ensure that a high quality service is provided in the patient’s home, or residential care settings within available resources. The service is provided over 2 shifts working from 8am till 8 pm.

Responsibility for the nursing care given to the patients on your own case load and for the nursing care provided by the team. The  Deputy Team Leader will ensure a case management model of delivery including the effective assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation of care and the discharge of patients from the case load meets the professional and clinical standards/guidelines at all times under the direction of the District Nurse Team Leader.

Supervise and support junior nursing staff and healthcare assistants.

Coordinate care with GPs, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed Job Description and Personal Specification please see attached JD & PS.

For contact details please see below.