District Nursing Team Leader

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A large regional healthcare trust in Liverpool is seeking a committed District Nurse Team Leader to manage and lead a nursing team. The role includes ensuring quality patient care and clinical effectiveness while providing direct care when necessary. Candidates should be passionate about team leadership and patient safety. Flexible working requests will be considered.

Qualifications

• Commitment to patient care and team leadership.
• Ability to manage performance, quality, and clinical effectiveness.
• Experience in supporting quality, safety, and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a District Nursing Team.
• Support the team to understand and own their quality.
• Provide direct patient care when necessary.

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a committed, competent and passionate team leader to join our District Nursing Teams within the Community Division for patients across LPB.

Mersey Care is a well-established organisation driving forward an exciting transformational programme incorporating a visionary integrated health care model. The organisation has embraced “Just and Learning Culture” and is a huge advocate for its principles and values.

The District Nursing Service currently operates a 8am-8pm working model. There is an expectation for the candidates to work within these working hours, including a variety of shifts across 7 day's a week to support the needs of the service.

Responsibilities

• To operationally manage and lead a District Nursing Team whilst being accountable for the performance, quality, and clinical effectiveness of the team.
• A key outcome of the role is to support your team to understand and own their quality, recognise, and respond to patient safety concerns, whilst identifying, assessing, and managing risk.
• The post holder is expected to provide direct patient care when necessary, acting as an expert practitioner and a role model to the whole team whilst actively supporting integration.
• As the District Nurse Team Lead you will work closely with the Integrated Community Nursing Senior Leadership Team to develop an effective and highly performing team, driving service improvements that meet patient need and promoting the team as a positive place for staff experience and development.

About Mersey Care

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

Organisation and Culture

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

How to apply / contact for further information

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Aimee Topping
Job title: Operational Service Manager
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07876001967