# Deputy Team Leader District Nursing > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-team-leader-district-nursing/ba5ce1e0-dc0d-48c6-8d29-30ed72057186 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-team-leader-district-nursing/ba5ce1e0-dc0d-48c6-8d29-30ed72057186.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** East Ham Care Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Team leader - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £45,953 - £54,254 per annum inc HCA - **Contract type:** Permanent: Full-time - **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (Full-time) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-04T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-21T12:21:25.967Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Services/Community_Services-v8290915 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8290915?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 8:00 till 16:00 or 12:00 to 20:00 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. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Car Driver/Owner - Physical effort: Ability to assess and manage risk in unpredictable working conditions - Ability to sit/kneel in prolonged positions/cramped positions for a sustained period of time - Ability to hoist patients/assist transfer of patients and to undertake treatment in close proximity to the patient - Ability to move and handle patients following risk assessment and within PCT moving and handling guidelines - Ability to frequently concentrate on the task in hand whilst also assessing and evaluating the whole situation - Ability to manage unpredictable situations - Ability to manage competing demands, i.e. staff, patients and organisational needs - Ability to occasionally manage challenging behaviour i.e. verbal abuse or situations where elder abuse is suspected - Occasional risk from exposure to blood and body fluids – required to apply Universal Infection Control procedures at all times ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Evidence of professional development - Evidence of recent clinical practice - Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Practice - Evidence of leadership, change management and motivational skills - Knowledge and understanding of current health and social care policy, i.e. National Service Frameworks - Knowledge of evidenced based practice, i.e. NICE guidelines on Pressure Ulcers, Palliative Care and RCN guidelines Leg Ulcer Management - Knowledge of principles of Clinical Governance - Computer Literate - Experience with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children **Desirable** - Computer Literate - Knowledge of Health Promotion - Evidence of competence in clinical skills, i.e. Tissue Viability, Palliative Care and Syringe Drivers, Venepuncture, Cannulation , Catherisation (Male and female) and Supra-pubic Vaccination and Immunisation - Knowledge of Adults at Risk and Vulnerable Adult Policy ### Personal Skills and Attributes **Essential** - Ability to effectively manage the caseload, prioritize and delegate work - Ability to work within a team of community nurses and ensure PCT policies and procedures are followed - Ability to organize own workload, work under pressure and forward plan team activities i.e. vaccination programs and training needs - Ability to communicate information effectively to the Primary Health Care Team and other professionals/agencies - Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal - Effectively communicate sensitive, complex and sometimes distressing information to patients, carers and staff - Ability to show empathy and provide reassurance - Maintain own professional development ### Education/ Qualification/ Training **Essential** - RGN - DN Cert./Dip Limited Prescriber **Desirable** - BSc/ MSc Specialist Nursing Practice ( District Nursing) - Independent Nurse Prescriber ## Documents - [jd & ps (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10608855) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft strategy 2026 (pdf, 421.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3090) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [course content for pmva course (pdf, 210.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1112) - [staff nurses support programme (pdf, 131.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1108) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.