District Nurse Team Leader

Barking and Dagenham CHSCS, North East London Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Registered Nurse with a District Nurse qualification to work as a Band 7 District Nurse Team Leader.

You will need to be able to demonstrate the following essential criteria skills for the post:

• Excellent clinical Skills
• Managerial Skills
• Leadership Skills
• Communication skills
• Information Technology (IT) Skills
• The ability to travel between sites,

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit  Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

The post holder will be a Registered Nurse (RN12-NMC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.

The post holder will support their peers and operational lead and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will supervise pre-registration students. They will have a commitment to collaborative working actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies.

The post holder will lead in professional support, operational management and clinical leadership of the District Nursing team for their locality, supporting the Operational leads. The will have a commitment to developing nursing services within primary care.

• Registered Nurse

• Specialist Community Practitioner
  -District Nurse
• Specialist Community Practitioner Assessor
• V300 qualification or working towards

• Community nursing experience
• Management of staff and leadership
• Evidence of continued professional development

• Budgetary experience

• Awareness of NHS priorities

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation.

Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the…