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Nurse Team Leader – Complex Care

Location: Fareham, Hampshire
Salary: 

• Pay Rate 1: £22 per hour – Monday to Friday, Days, 8.00am to 8.00pm
• Pay Rate 2: £24 per hour – Monday to Friday, Waking Nights, 8.00pm to 8.00am
• Pay Rate 3: £24 per hour – Weekends and Bank Holidays, Days, 8.00am to 8.00pm
• Pay Rate 4: £25 per hour – Weekends and Bank Holidays, Waking Nights, 8.00pm to 8.00am
• Pay Rate 5: National Living Wage (currently £12.21 per hour for workers age 21 and above), Monday to Sunday, Sleeping Nights, 10.00pm to 7.00am

Hours: Full-time - approximately 40 hours per week (28 hours care per week and 12 hours admin to be worked flexibly), day shifts available.
Contract Type: Permanent

Are you a compassionate and experienced Registered Nurse? Do you thrive in a leadership role and enjoy working in a professional, person-centred care environment?

Verity is a vibrant woman in her 40s with an acquired brain injury who lives in her own home and is supported by a dedicated team of Support Workers. She’s now looking for a Nurse Team Leader to join her care team.  Someone who can bring clinical expertise, warmth, and strong leadership to her daily life and to support her team.

About the Role:

As Nurse Team Leader, you will:

• Deliver safe, effective nursing care in Verity’s home and in the community.
• Lead and co-ordinate a team of Support Workers, ensuring high standards of care.
• Provide clinical interventions including PEG feeding, suctioning, respiratory care, catheter care and pressure care.
• Monitor Verity’s health and respond to changes with timely interventions.
• Support Verity with personal care, communication, and social activities.
• Work closely with Verity’s family, Case Manager, and multidisciplinary team including therapists.
• Maintain care records, update care plans, manage rotas, supervise staff, and oversee training and development.

About Verity:

Verity has a brilliant sense of humour and enjoys quizzes, soaps, shopping trips, and planning for Christmas and birthdays. She communicates non-verbally through facial expressions and body language, using her alphabet board and her team plays a vital role in interpreting her needs. She is registered blind and relies on her team to describe her surroundings and activities. Her care includes 24-hour support, with both waking and sleeping night staff.  There is a family dog, but not in the area where her main care takes place.

What We’re Looking For:

• Registered Nurse (RGN/RMN/RNLD) with current NMC registration.
• Experience in complex care, brain injury, or community nursing (training provided).
• Strong leadership and organisational skills.
• Ability to manage clinical tasks and support a team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A proactive, empathetic, and cheerful approach to care.
• Driver and able to drive the wheelchair adapted vehicle (automatic)

Why Join Verity’s Team?

• A truly rewarding role where your clinical skills and compassion make a daily impact.
• A supportive family and care team who value professionalism, collaboration and kindness.
• Opportunities for professional development and enhancing clinical care skills.

Ready to lead by example and make a difference in Verity’s life?
Apply now and become part of a team where your expertise and empathy will be truly valued.

In order to promote continuity of our high care standards, you will be offered:

• Induction
• Relevant training opportunities (including The Care Certificate)
• Regular clinical supervision/review meetings
• On-going support from a dedicated Case Manager and HR department

Are you calm, proactive and enthusiastic?
Do you share our values?

Client Centred- Can you demonstrate commitment and passion for meeting Verity's needs?
Integrity - Can you demonstrate empathy and understanding in an appropriate and professional manner?
Supportive - Can you develop productive and professional relationships with others.
Positive - You would be expected to create an inclusive environment and respect diversity.
Quality Focussed – Always maintaining professionalism.

Main Skills and Behaviours

Essential

• Must be able to work with specialist equipment (training will be provided). A Handling Management Plan is available and is designed to reduce the risk of handling injuries, but you may be required to bend, kneel, squat, push or pull.
• NMC registration and demonstration of post registration experience.
• Registered Nurse with experience of clients with complex care and health needs.
• Experience of managing or leading a team
• Experience of formulating appropriate care plans and risk assessments for clients
• Knowledge and experience of working with people with a brain injury
• Able to maintain effective working relationships, including the utilisation of the appropriate person management skills required to lead, train and support a team of support workers
• Able to develop an appropriate range of activities and willing to participate in a variety of outdoor activities
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the importance of maintaining confidentiality and to respect our client and their family's need for privacy.
• Able to practice as a competent Support Worker and provide evidence to demonstrate this.
• Can demonstrate empathy and understanding in an appropriate and professional manner.
• Can demonstrate commitment and passion for meeting the client’s needs.
• A team player who understands the importance of feedback to qualified members of the team.
• Can develop productive and professional relationships with others.
• Actively creates an inclusive environment respecting diversity.
• Good organisational skills who can adhere to standards and quality requirements.
• Good written skills and the ability to keep adequate written records of care given.
• Confident about working in client’s own home and sensitive to the needs and wishes of the family.
• Patient, tolerant with a proactive and encouraging approach.
• Responsible attitude and able to use own initiative.
• Good sense of humour, cheerful and a positive attitude.
• Reliable, trustworthy and a good communicator.
• Adaptable to change and open to learning opportunities
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
• Able to ensure constituency of approach.
• Willing to travel
• Ability to work additional hours as required.
• Able to work flexible hours, sometimes at short notice.
• Full driving license (endorsements to be disclosed) and able to drive the client’s automatic transmission wheelchair adapted vehicle.

Desirable

• Experience of carrying out therapy programmes.
• Previous experience of managing and organising the maintenance of specialist equipment for disabled people.
• Basic understanding of the principles of rehabilitation
• Own car – desirable