Deputy Team Lead - Toressa Community Nurses

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

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Deputy Team Lead in Community Nursing with the NHS. The role involves managing a clinical caseload, providing holistic nursing assessments, and ensuring high-quality care for patients in their homes. Candidates must demonstrate leadership skills and the ability to manage travel requirements across various locations in Cornwall.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current RN (Adult) registration.
• Recent professional development evidence required.
• Long Term Conditions certificate preferred or in progress.

Responsibilities

• Manage clinical caseload within a community nursing team.
• Provide clinical management and leadership to team staff.
• Implement personalized support plans for patients.

Skills

Leadership skills

Conflict resolution skills

IT skills

Education

Current professional registration - RN (Adult)

Evidence of recent relevant professional development

Long Term Conditions certificate gained or working towards

Job description

Go back Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Deputy Team Lead - Toressa Community Nurses

The closing date is 22 May 2025

An exciting opportunity for a Community Nurse Deputy Team Lead for the Toressa Community Nursing Team.

As an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients with complex health and social care needs. They will manage a clinical caseload within a community nursing team with guidance from the Community Matron, Community Nurse Team Lead, and Integrated Care Team Leads. Ensuring the provision of holistic nursing assessments and high-quality, safe, evidence-based care to patients and carers with the aim of maintaining patients in their own homes. This includes physical examination, detailed history taking, diagnosis of deterioration in pre-existing conditions, and treatment planning.

This is a community-based role that requires frequent travel to various locations throughout the county, including areas that may not be accessible by public transportation. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate how they will manage these travel requirements.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work in this adaptable and evolving role, focusing on safe, effective admission avoidance, and supporting timely discharge from hospitals and other care settings. Implementing personalised support plans and collaborating with the whole community resource to facilitate ongoing care management.

To work in partnership with patients and carers and members of the multidisciplinary team to offer support and advice, promote informed choice, maximise independence, and optimise quality of life. This post holder will be required to provide clinical management and leadership to all staff within the team.

The shift pattern for this role will be to cover an 08:00 to 22:00 service, 7 days a week.

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation, and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work, and a great partner.

Just over 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer and during other holidays, lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

Job responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification, including the main responsibilities of this role, please see supporting documents.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Current professional registration - RN (Adult)
• Evidence of recent relevant professional development
• Long Term Conditions certificate gained or working towards

Skills and Aptitude

• Leadership skills - able to motivate a range of staff, organise self and others, delegate, and prioritise workload duties.
• Conflict resolution skills
• IT skills including use of Word, Excel, spreadsheets, email, and internet access

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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