Job summary
- Main area
- Community Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Full-time
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full-time)
- Job ref
- 363-CHN7599482
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Ham Care Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,485 - £52,521 per annum inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Team Leader District Nursing
Band 6
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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.
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed Job Description and Personal Specification please see attached JD & PS.
For contact details please see below.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- RGN
- DN Cert./Dip Limited Prescriber
Desirable criteria
- BSc/ MSc Specialist Nursing Practice ( District Nursing)
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
Personal Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to effectively manage the caseload, prioritize and delegate work
- Ability to work within a team of community nurses and ensure PCT policies and procedures are followed
- Ability to organize own workload, work under pressure and forward plan team activities i.e. vaccination programs and training needs
- Ability to communicate information effectively to the Primary Health Care Team and other professionals/agencies
- Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
- Effectively communicate sensitive, complex and sometimes distressing information to patients, carers and staff
- Ability to show empathy and provide reassurance
- Maintain own professional development
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of professional development
- Evidence of recent clinical practice
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Practice
- Evidence of leadership, change management and motivational skills
- Knowledge and understanding of current health and social care policy, i.e. National Service Frameworks
- Knowledge of evidenced based practice, i.e. NICE guidelines on Pressure Ulcers, Palliative Care and RCN guidelines Leg Ulcer Management
- Knowledge of principles of Clinical Governance
- Computer Literate
- Experience with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children
Desirable criteria
- Computer Literate
- Knowledge of Health Promotion
- Evidence of competence in clinical skills, i.e. Tissue Viability, Palliative Care and Syringe Drivers, Venepuncture, Cannulation , Catherisation (Male and female) and Supra-pubic Vaccination and Immunisation
- Knowledge of Adults at Risk and Vulnerable Adult Policy
Other
Essential criteria
- Car Driver/Owner
- Physical effort: Ability to assess and manage risk in unpredictable working conditions
- Ability to sit/kneel in prolonged positions/cramped positions for a sustained period of time
- Ability to hoist patients/assist transfer of patients and to undertake treatment in close proximity to the patient
- Ability to move and handle patients following risk assessment and within PCT moving and handling guidelines
- Ability to frequently concentrate on the task in hand whilst also assessing and evaluating the whole situation
- Ability to manage unpredictable situations
- Ability to manage competing demands, i.e. staff, patients and organisational needs
- Ability to occasionally manage challenging behaviour i.e. verbal abuse or situations where elder abuse is suspected
- Occasional risk from exposure to blood and body fluids – required to apply Universal Infection Control procedures at all times
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marlene Soares
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07508842450
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