Deputy Lead Nurse
| Posting date: | 17 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 March 2026 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE1 5WW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9358-26-0111 |
Summary
To provide leadership, support and advice relating to the provision of Neonatal Home care services. The post holder will be an excellent team worker and will be responsible for ensuring the highest standard of clinical care and evidence-based practice for infants within the scope of neonatal outreach, providing specialist on-going care for the neonate and advice, support and education to the family in the home environment. Dynamic resource planning (staffing) when faced with variations in activity /team availability across all sites, devising innovative/efficient solutions where necessary Promote a positive and professional working environment, providing clinical and safeguarding supervision. Manage the referral process for infants requiring neonatal homecare services Identify and organise care for babies requiring neonatal Homecare support Allocate, coordinate, monitor and assess outreach service workload, ensuring resources are deployed appropriately. Maintain and further develop own expert nursing practice skills & abilities and through effective role modelling ensure that the nursing practice of colleagues is continually developed and enhanced. Develop and facilitate others in promoting an evidence-based learning culture and practice. Review with colleagues, evidence-based protocols and guidelines within neonatal outreach. Promote change in nursing and clinical practice in order to improve and promote early safe discharge management of infants into the care of the neonatal outreach service. please see job description/person specification for full details on the role.