Band 6 Deputy Team Manager Swanshurst Team

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham seeks a District Nurse Deputy Team Manager to oversee a nursing team delivering home-based care. The role involves supporting the team manager, demonstrating strong leadership skills, and delivering quality care to complex patients. Applicants must have a District Nurse Specialist Practitioner Qualification or be working towards it. Flexibility is offered regarding shifts, fulfilling the needs of diverse patients.

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified District Nurse with an active NMC pin.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Evidence of continued professional development relevant to role.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of community nurses.
• Deliver nursing interventions in clients' homes.
• Support and manage operational aspects of the community nursing service.

Skills

Leadership skills

Excellent communication

Organisational skills

Clinical knowledge

Time management

Analytical skills

IT literate

Education

Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)

District Nurse Specialist Practitioner Qualification

Mentor and assessor qualification

Tools

MS Word

Excel

Access

PowerPoint

Job description

Band 6 Deputy Team Manager Swanshurst Team

*This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested*

This post is for a District Nurse Deputy Team Manager with the Swanshurst Team based at Moseley Hall Hospital.

Applicants must demonstrate they have the essential to role DN Specialist Practitioner Qualification.

The post will require nursing interventions to be delivered to clients in their own homes. The post holder will be expected to work multi professionally, support other team member's roles and contribute to the future development of the service. As a deputy team manager you will support the team manager in operational aspects of managing a community nursing team whilst also being a senior specialist District Nurse providing care to our most complex and vulnerable patients.

Consideration will be given around the trusts flexible working policy with regards to shifts.

Please note if you are an international recruit the trust offer a different route and please apply via that route as you will require an active NMC pin for this post.

Main duties of the job

As a senior nurse you will be able to demonstrate good leadership skills, the ability to manage change in clinical practice and processes. You will also be able to demonstrate the ability to independently make sound clinical and leadership judgements and regularly supervise the workload of junior colleagues.

We are looking for people who are innovative, forward thinking, flexible and have strong leadership qualities.

About us

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your TRAC account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS, telephone contact details and postal address

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe\'s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated nurses to join our teams; we provide integrated care to patients throughout Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust so the ideal candidate must be highly mobile and are able to travel throughout the Citys Boundaries.

The ideal candidates must be a good communicator, team player and have sound clinical knowledge being able to work independently and as part of a team.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

• Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)
• Nurse Prescriber
• Mentor and assessor qualification or equivalent
• Evidence of continued professional development relevant to role
• District Nurse Specialist Practitioner Qualification, or willing to work towards equivalent modules

Skills/Knowledge

• Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical practice.
• Excellent communication Analytical skills and a problem solving approach IT literate
• Awareness of the complex needs of a multicultural, socially diverse population.
• Leadership and interpersonal qualities.
• Excellent organisational/ prioritisation skills and the ability to meet deadlines, often working with sensitive or contentious information within varying environments.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and implementation of NHS access targets.
• Understanding and knowledge of finance and performance management.
• Competent user of MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Patient Administration Systems.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work under pressure
• Effective time management
• Effective Team Member

Other Job Requirements

• Needs to be independently mobile through out the organisation. This post is assessed as require a Car driver and access to a car

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Divisional Management Building, Moseley Hall Hospital

Divisional Management Building, Moseley Hall Hospital