Deputy Team Leader

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.

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.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

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