Job Introduction
Are you a confident, supportive leader who thrives in a calm and focused night‑shift environment? We’re looking for a dedicated Team Leader to guide and inspire our Night Team, ensuring smooth operations and excellent service throughout the overnight hours. Working 27 hours per week from 22:00pm to 08:00am, you’ll play a key role in maintaining high standards and supporting colleagues.
Main Responsibilities:
- Responsible for ensuring efficient and effective use of nursing supplies, equipment and other resources.
- To Co-ordinate off duty and annual leave in collaboration with nursing colleagues.
- Responsible for monitoring any absenteeism within the team in accordance with organisational policy.
- Be responsible for the managerial and day to day clinical supervision process of all staff in team.
- Organise and facilitate the orientation and induction of new staff members.
- Participate in the selection and recruitment of members of staff.
- Participate in skill mix review and workforce planning to identify service requirement.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
The ideal candidate will have -
Essential:
- Registered Nurse - Level 1
- Work within the NMC code of conduct Significant post registration general experience
- Leadership skills
- Team Management
- Caseload Management
- Management of long term conditions, palliative care and case management of complex patients
- End of life care including syringe drivers and symptom control
- Wound management
- Doppler assessment, multi-layer compression bandaging
- Venepuncture
- Male/female/supra-pubic catheterisations
- Administration of medication – including IV’s
- Pressure ulcer prevention Effective verbal and written communication skills Ability to remain calm in challenging situations
- Able to manage own time and resources
- Teaching/Mentoring or willing to work towards
- Have a valid driving license and access to a vehicle.
Desirable:
- District Nurse Qualification
- Non- medical prescriber
- Wound Care course
- Palliative Care Course
- NVQ Assessor/Teaching and Assessing Appraisal experience
- Recruitment experience Audit and Research skills Able to work as part of a team and own initiative adhering to the Lone Working Policy
Package Description
As a Team Leader you will be part of our valued team in our Community Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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