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Community Nursing Deputy Team Lead

Job details
Posting date: 04 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 04 May 2024
Location: North Shields, NE29 8NH
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6172628/319-6172628HN

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Summary

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic professional to join the Out-of-Hours District Nursing Team in North Tyneside. The successful post-holder will provide leadership and have accountability for the management of the Nursing Team working with the Locality and Team Leads. The post requires a high level of clinical expertise developed through experience in practice, to coordinate and manage the delivery of complex patient care.

We are dedicated to supporting continuing professional development and provide excellent leadership through mentorship, coaching and education for all grades of staff, to provide high quality patient care in line with Northumbria Healthcare Trusts Vision. The post holder will establish and maintain robust communication networks with patients, carers, team members, GPs and other professionals and agencies. You will act as a role model for the Community Nursing service, exercising accountability for patient care in line with the NMC code.
The post holder will role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering and leading highly specialist clinical care to the patients. You will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate, patient-centred programmes of care. The post holder will work to professional and regulatory body codes, standards and guidance at all times ensuring practice is evidence-based. You will be responsible for developing new and innovative clinical practices responding to emerging knowledge and techniques and working with other services where appropriate to make improvements.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
• Registered Nurse – Professional knowledge acquired through degree
• District Nursing Specialist Practitioner qualification OR Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) & Advanced Clinical Skills
• Completion of Leadership program or equivalent leadership qualification
• Registered practice assessor / supervisor with appropriate qualification.
• Excellent Communication skills, written and verbal
• Wide range of practical competencies
• Interpersonal skills
• Organisational skills to enable post holder to organise own work and work of others
• IT skills to enable post holder to enter information in clinical systems
• To lead, inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance and creating opportunities for development
• To contribute to the development of a culture of high engagement, where staff are empowered and entrusted to provide the best services and care for patients
• To promote and facilitate innovation and continuous improvement to deliver better services for service users and patients
• Accountability for the leadership of post holders’ staff / teams / departments
• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
• To lead, inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance and creating opportunities for development
• To contribute to the development of a culture of high engagement, where staff are empowered and entrusted to provide the best services and care for patients
• To promote and facilitate innovation and continuous improvement to deliver better services for service users and patients
• Accountability for the leadership of post holders staff / teams / departments


This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024

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