Nurse Team Leader-Peritoneal Dialysis

Main area Renal Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Individual is expected to do home visits as part of the role.) Job  

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/07/2026 23:59 Interview date 07/08/2026

Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The nurse team leader will support the home therapies patient program, providing high quality, effective, individualized care through the assessment of patient care needs to develop, implement and evaluate them with supervision.

Prioritise a program of education and training that is individualized to patients’ needs that ensures consistency, thoroughness and safety. To support the patient, independently planning safe transfer home in a timely manner.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:
Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

• Carry out planned care and training for a group of patients without direct supervision.
• Assess patient’s suitability for home therapy, mental, cognitive and physical ability.
• Ensure the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based, individualized patient care for patients.
• Plan, organise, and allocate patients to the PD and HHD training programme according to individual suitability and clinical needs.
• Prioritise and manage patient workload in line with referrals, in liaison with the senior nurse.
• Use initiative when training targets are not being achieved, escalating concerns to the senior nurse in home therapies team at the earliest opportunity, and agreeing revised action plans.

• Registered Nurse or equivalent with live NMC registration
• Recognised teaching and assessing qualification

• Minimum of six months hemodialysis experience as qualified nurse
• Experience of being a team leader/deputy in charge

• Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload
• Ability to develop own skills and knowledge
• Demonstrate an ability to listen and comprehend
• Ability to manage potentially difficult situations
• Physiological assessment of acutely unwell patient

• Awareness of current professional issues
• Ability to support and mentor learners
• Patient focused – committed to ensuring a positive hospital experience for patients and the relatives/carers
• Understanding of critical care

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Valid driving license and can drive (For home visit, this is necessary)
• Include: value the diversity and experience of our community, colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together
• Respect: create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and re open to listening hearing new ideas and change
• Improve: committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.