Specialist Team Leader | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 October 2025 |
| Location: | Sefton, L21 9JN |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7483680/350-CC7483680 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in Sefton Place for a Specialist Nurse Team Leader within the diabetes team.
The postholder will operationally manage and lead the team whilst being accountable for the performance, quality and clinical effectiveness of the team.
The post holder is expected to provide direct patient care when necessary, acting as an expert practitioner and a role model to the whole team whilst actively supporting integration.
As the Specialist Nurse Team Lead you will work closely with the Integrated Community Nursing Senior Leadership Team to develop an effective and highly performing team, driving service improvements that meet patient need and promoting the team as a positive place for staff experience and development.
The post-holder is responsible for the ongoing assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of care.
The post holder will carry out all relevant forms of care and will take responsibility for caseload holders in their absence.
Responsibility for service delivery within a designated area is a key aspect of the role.
The practitioner ensures that the team functions efficiently and effectively, maintaining high standards of care and operational continuity.
This involves planning rotas, managing schedules, and adapting working patterns to meet service demands.
The practitioner works collaboratively with other services and stakeholders to facilitate seamless care transitions, ensuring that service users are treated in the most appropriate settings and that care pathways are optimised.
A proactive approach to care is essential. The team, under the practitioner’s guidance, delivers anticipatory and maintenance care, responding to both planned and unplanned needs. This includes managing long-term conditions, promoting health and self-care, and providing end-of-life and palliative care.
Leadership and mentorship are integral to the role.
The practitioner supports the development of caseload management across the local health economy, mentoring staff who are transitioning into these roles.
They act as an advocate and champion for patients in various forums, challenging attitudes and behaviours that may compromise care quality or equity.
Through clinical supervision and caseload oversight, the practitioner ensures that the team delivers safe, effective, and compassionate care.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Responsibility for the co-ordination in monitoring the care of patients with long term conditions, disease management and supporting clinical staff ensuring continuity and continuing care.
Being responsible for the development of an annual caseload profile to identify the health needs and necessary resources to meet service needs, using the information to inform other professionals and to direct development of services.
Responsible for the setting of team objectives in conjunction with the Operational Lead.
Ensuring that all Human Resources policies are adhered to including the recruitment and employment of staff, the management of sickness absence
Using own expertise and experience to present recommendations for service development.
Responsible for ensuring that all data relating to the patient activity of the team is input onto the information system accurately and on time as required by Trust policy.
Having delegated responsibility for budget management operating with constraints identified by management and acts as an authorise signatory for goods and services
Allocating work to make best use of the knowledge and skills of team members.
Having responsibility for ensuring that appraisals and PDPs are carried out within the team and the information collated.
Co-operating with Trust management and others in meeting statutory and local requirements of the Health and Safety Policy.
Identifying strategies aimed at minimising risks to staff, patients, clients, and others that use the health service
Having the responsibility for accident/incident reporting.
Developing systems and processes that engage with users of the service ensuring services are designed to meet need.
Valuing the contribution that users of the service can make in shaping services
Leading by example to inspire others with the values and vision for the present and future of Community Nurses nursing patients with long term conditions/acute disease management highlighting to individuals, the team, and the Trust the benefits of new ways of working.
Having the ability to constructively challenge current working practices and overcome barriers during times of change.
Specialist Nurse Team Leader Role
To promote the attainment and maintenance of optimum health of patients who have long term conditions and acute disease management through predictive and proactive case management of an identified caseload of patients
To formulate care plans that address the expressed health, social and cultural needs of the patient as an individual through working in partnership with the patient, the GP, specialist nurses and other stakeholder providers
To promote patient centred care by integrating and co-ordinating the activities of the patient, relatives and carers, the individual practitioners, and teams in the provision of an efficacious management strategy for managing an individual’s long-term condition
To ensure that appropriate information regarding the condition of the patient is known to the GP and other appropriate stakeholder providers, by the development and maintenance of effective systems of inter-agency, inter-disciplinary communications
In liaison with Integrated Community Nursing Teams, Social Services and GPs, provide clinical leadership to nursing teams to enable them to develop approaches that address the needs of patients with complex long-term conditions and acute disease
Support pathways for smooth transition between primary, secondary, and tertiary care for patients, particularly those who are newly diagnosed or whose symptoms are poorly controlled, by liaison with specialists within primary and secondary care. Making directreferral of patients for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures using the care pathways approach.
Inform the development of policies and procedures relevant to the care of people with long term conditions and acute diseases by co-operating and assisting in research programmes relating to the client group. Valuing the contributions that users of the service can make in reshaping services by developing systems and processes that engage those users meaningfully to ensure services are designed to meet expressed need.
Ensure services are delivered and sustained in line with NICE guidelines/local targets and understand principles of disease management by leading, motivating, educating, and developing colleagues and others.
Promote admission avoidance and early discharge by effective liaison with internal and external stakeholders
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Oct 2025