IPU Team Leader

The Methodist Church in Britain; Piddinghoe; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Supportive working environment

Opportunities for professional dev

Leadership growth

Job summary

St Peter & St James Hospice is seeking a Team Leader to oversee nursing staff, healthcare assistants and volunteers in the Inpatient Unit. You will coordinate admissions, discharges and patient flow, and lead shifts as nurse in charge.

The role requires degree-level NMC registration and offers flexible shifts with a rolling seven-day senior on-call rota, with opportunities to contribute to education and quality improvements.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education with active NMC registration.
• Experience in palliative care and coordinating admissions.
• Proven ability to lead shifts and manage workforce deployment.
• Experience handling patient flow and end-of-life discussions.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and managerial leadership for nursing staff, healthcare assistants and volunteers.
• Coordinate admissions, referrals, discharges and CHC-funded patients, ensuring accurate records.
• Lead clinical shifts as nurse in charge and manage safe staffing.
• Lead advance care planning and end-of-life discussions with patients and families.
• Supervise, mentor and develop staff including performance management and induction.
• Drive quality improvement, audits, risk assessments and incident investigations.
• Contribute to clinical policies with multidisciplinary teams.
• Assess and deliver individualized palliative care addressing physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs.
• Recognize signs of dying and initiate anticipatory prescribing.
• Plan and allocate staff by competency and workload and order medicines.
• Support ward volunteers and contribute to teaching and education.

Skills

Leadership

Delegation

Empathy

Communication

Staff development

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Job description

This Team Leader post sits within the Inpatient Unit at St Peter & St James Hospice, where the holder oversees nursing staff, healthcare assistants and volunteers. The work combines clinical and managerial leadership with coordinating admissions, discharges and patient flow, and leading shifts as nurse in charge. Flexible shifts and a rolling seven-day senior on-call rota are part of the role. Degree-level NMC registration is essential, with palliative care experience desirable.

What the job involves

• Provide clinical and managerial leadership for nursing staff, healthcare assistants and volunteers on the Inpatient Unit
• Coordinate admissions, referrals, discharges and CHC-funded patients, keeping patient flow and records accurate
• Lead clinical shifts as nurse in charge, managing safe staffing and workforce deployment
• Lead advance care planning and end-of-life discussions with patients and families
• Supervise, mentor and develop staff, including performance management, recruitment and induction of registered nurses, paramedics, nursing associates and healthcare assistants
• Lead quality improvement, clinical audit, risk assessments and incident investigations
• Contribute to clinical policies and procedures alongside multidisciplinary teams
• Assess, plan and deliver individualised palliative care addressing physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs
• Recognise signs of dying and initiate anticipatory prescribing to address symptoms
• Maintain practical clinical skills such as venepuncture, PICC line management, catheterisation and IV drug administration
• Plan and allocate staff by competency, workload and patient dependency across hospice services, and order medicines and supplies
• Support management of ward support volunteers, mentor student and return-to-practice nurses, and contribute to teaching and education

What’s required

Qualifications

• Education to degree level (level six)

Registration & licences

• Active NMC registration as a registered nurse

Experience

• Experience of assessing and planning patient care
• Experience of coordinating clinical shifts
• Handling patient and carer feedback, including complaints, sensitively and in a timely manner
• Knowledge of symptom control to guide the wider healthcare team
• Maintaining accurate written and computerised records under NMC guidance

  Skills & knowledge

  • Strong leadership and effective delegation
  • Empathetic, courteous approach to patients and their loved ones
  • Demonstrated leadership through engagement with innovation in practice

  Other

  • Ability to work flexible shifts and the senior nurse on-call rota on a rolling seven-day basis
  • Willingness to take part in own clinical supervision

  Nice to have

  • Mentorship qualification
  • Post-registration education in a relevant subject
  • Level 6 leadership qualification
  • Evidence of practice in a palliative care setting

  What’s offered

  • Supportive working environment
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Opportunities for leadership growth