Deputy Team Leader District Nursing | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,485 - £52,521 per annum inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, E7 8QP |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7599482/363-CHN7599482 |
Summary
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.
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.
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
For a more detailed Job Description and Personal Specification please see attached JD & PS.
For contact details please see below.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025