Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Secondment if internal candidate / Fixed term for one year if extermal)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7460032LH
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lintonville District Nursing Team
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Team Lead District Nursing
Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic professional to join the Lintonville Community Nursing Team, to provide deputy leadership and management of the Community Nursing Team. The post requires a high level of clinical expertise which has been developed through experience in practice. 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.
As a deputy team lead the post holder will support the Team Lead to 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, our patients and families exercising accountability for patient care in line the NMC code of professional conduct.
You will work with the Team Lead to 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.
Main duties of the job
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care packages for patients on their caseload which can include the analysis of clinical, social and family situations.
To exercise accountability for patient care, as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and act within the policies of Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust.
To support the Team Lead and in their absence be responsible for the planning and delivery of District Nursing services within a designated area, prioritising clinical need to provide holistic care.
To be accountable for own practice working without direct supervision.
To act as an advocate to empower individuals, their carers and their families to influence and use available resources. To carry out risk assessment and management of the physical environment to safeguard patients, staff and carers
Promote effective use of Trust policy regarding infection control within the nursing team, the clinical setting and patients’ homes.
Make referrals to other disciplines or agencies.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Registered Nurse – Professional knowledge acquired through degree, supplemented by diploma level specialist training, experience, short courses
Registered Mentor: Teaching / mentoring qualification e.g. ENB 998, C&G 730/7, D 32 / 33
Previous post – registration experience
Communication skills, written and verbal
Wide range of practical competencies e.g. compression bandaging, Doppler etc.
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
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Registered Nurse – Professional knowledge acquired through degree, supplemented by diploma level specialist training, experience, short courses
Registered Mentor: Teaching / mentoring qualification e.g. ENB 998, C&G 730/7, D 32 / 33
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse – Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent level of experience or knowledge.
- Practice Assessor
- Registered Mentor: Mentor-Supervisor/Assessor
Desirable criteria
- District Nursing Practitioner qualification OR Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) & Advanced Clinical Skills
- Completion of in-house Development program
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Previous post – registration experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience and understanding of working in Community Setting
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license 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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Jarvis
- Job title
- District Nurse Team lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974687915
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