Deputy Team Leader Community Nursing - Evenings and Nights Service

Main area Community Nursing Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Permanent:
Evenings and Night Community Nursing Service. Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Includes weekends, Bank Holidays and out-of-hours) Job
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Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Northern General Hospital Town Sheffield Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pa/pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 05/07/2026 23:59 Interview date 13/07/2026

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems.

Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

If you are an enthusiastic, experienced Community Staff Nurse, this is an exciting secondment opportunity to enhance and develop your leadership knowledge and skills within the dynamic role of a Community Nursing Deputy Team Leader.

These permanent posts will see the successful candidates working alongside the District Nurse Team Leader, assisting in managing and leading a Community Nursing Team. In addition, you will work in collaboration with the wider Integrated Community Care/Primary Care services to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and patient focused planned and unplanned care at home.

• In collaboration with the District Nurse Team Leader, lead and manage the Evenings and Nights Community Nursing Team, monitoring standards of care, delegating responsibilities and supervise team members as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain appropriate communication systems. Working closely with patients/carers and families and other members of the integrated care team and statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Working in partnership with other agencies, act as care manager for identified patients in order to prevent inappropriate hospital admission.
• In collaboration with the wider integrated care team provide care planning, support, treatment and monitoring to patients on the general case load.
• In collaboration with the Team Leader, manage resources effectively and advise on skill mix requirements for the team.
• In collaboration with the Team Leader, assist with the management of team budgets.
• Positively participate in and promote Clinical Governance, thus ensuring the highest quality of practice is maintained, within the service. Demonstrate the use of evidence based practice and participation in clinical audit.
• In collaboration with the Team Leader assist with performance reviews within the team in order to contribute to team and corporate objectives, encouraging and supporting development of staff and maintenance of personal development plans.
• Ensure team members undertake mandatory training requirements.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

• Registered Nurse Level 1
• District Nurse degree or equivalent qualification/experience (or a willingness to complete DN Qualification as directed by management)
• Experience of administration of Intravenous medications (or a willingness to complete training within an agreed…