Community Nursing Deputy Team Lead

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Blyth; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Nursing Deputy Team Lead to assist the team lead in delivering district nursing services in Blyth, Brockwell, Hexham and across Northumberland and North Tyneside. You will lead a community nursing team, manage caseloads and ensure high quality patient care.

The role emphasises compassionate leadership, mentorship, coaching and development of staff while maintaining robust communication with patients, carers and healthcare

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse with current registration.
• Experience leading a team in community setting.
• Knowledge of quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement and evaluate packages of care for patients on caseload.
• Provide leadership and supervision to inspire high performance.
• Develop and maintain mentorship, coaching and staff development within the team.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Coaching

Quality improvement

Team management

Education

Registered General Nurse

Degree or equivalent

Practice Assessor

District Nursing Practitioner or Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) & Advanced Clinical Skills

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Community Nursing Deputy Team Lead

The closing date is 04 November 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic professional to join our dynamic District Nursing Service as a Community Nursing Deputy Team, to work alongside the team lead to provide leadership and day to day management of the Community Nursing Team. We have vacancies in Blyth, Brockwell, and Hexham, alongside other potential opportunities across Northumberland and North Tyneside.

As a deputy team lead the post holder will 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.

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.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating packages of care for patients on their caseload, delegating appropriately providing and leadership to inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance and creating opportunities for development.

There is strong commitment to provide excellent leadership through mentorship, coaching and development for all grades of staff, to provide high quality patient care in line with Northumbria Healthcare Trusts Vision. Team Leads take responsibility for the management and supervision of the Community Nurse Teams.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

The deputy team lead is responsible for the planning and delivery of the District Nursing services within a designated area, prioritising clinical need to provide holistic care, maintaining accountability for their own practice while working without direct supervision.

The post holder will lead a team of Community Nurses, responsible for the day to day management of the District Nursing Team alongside the team lead, maintaining effective management and clinical supervision frameworks for all staff, with the responsibility of carrying out professional development reviews in line with Trust policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Professional Registration

• Registered General Nurse
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent level of experience or knowledge
• Practice Assessor
• District Nursing Practitioner qualification or Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) & Advanced Clinical Skills

Experience and knowledge

• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Experience of leading a team
• Experience of managing own workload/others
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
• Experience and understanding of working in Community setting
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Other

• 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

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.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust