Location: Fareham, Hampshire

Nurse Team Leader

Pay: 

• 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

Hours: Full-time - approximately 40-42 hours per week (for example 30 hours care per week and 12 hours admin to be worked flexibly), day shifts available.

Support Workers

Pay: 

• £13.65 per hour – Monday to Friday, Days, 8.00am to 8.00pm
• £15.00 per hour – Monday to Friday, Waking Nights, 8.00pm to 8.00am
• £15.00 per hour – Weekends, Days, 8.00am to 8.00pm
• £16.00 per hour – Weekends, Waking Nights, 8.00pm to 8.00am
• £National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage per hour (dependent on the successful candidate's age), Monday to Sunday, Sleeping Nights, 10.00pm to 7.00am

Hours: Permanent hours (part time) - a number of shifts available across the 2 week rolling rota, shift times range from 3 hours to 10+ hours and can include days and waking nights from Monday - Sunday.  However, if you are able to work just days, just nights or a combination of both, please do apply.

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.
• Bring clinical expertise, warmth and strong leadership to Verity's daily life and to support her care team. 

Why Join Verity’s Team as Nurse Team Leader?

• A truly rewarding role where your clinical skills, care 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 and care skills.

• Provide respectful and compassionate personal care, supporting Verity with her daily routines.
  
• Assist with PEG feeding and medication administration, ensuring comfort and safety at all times.
  
• Deliver catheter care and maintain skin integrity through effective pressure care.
  
• Provide respiratory support, including suctioning when required, in a calm and reassuring manner.
  
• Support Verity in enjoying her hobbies and social activities, both at home and in the community.
  
• Communicate clearly and sensitively, ensuring Verity feels understood, valued, and respected.
  
• Assist with moving and handling, including safe use of hoisting equipment (full training provided).

Why Join Verity’s Team as a Support Worker?

• A role that is both meaningful and enjoyable, where patience, tact and compassion are valued.
• A supportive family and care team who value professionalism, collaboration and kindness.

Pay and Benefits:

• As per wages above
• Sickness entitlement
• Pension (subject to qualifying status)
• Free DBS check
• Employee Assistance Programme (including legal and financial advice, as well as wellbeing support)

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

• Comprehensive training and Induction
• Relevant training opportunities (including The Care Certificate where applicable)
• Ongoing supervision and support

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, marriage and civil partnerships and religion and belief.

Where a specific gender is stated as essential, gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance to paragraph 1, of the schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for a female or male worker to work with our client.

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 Focused – Always maintaining professionalism.

• A Registered Nurse (RGN/RMN/RNLD) with current NMC registration and demonstration of post registration experience.
  
• Knowledge and experience in complex care, brain injury or community nursing.
  
• Strong leadership and organisational skills with experience of managing or leading a team
  
• Ability to manage clinical tasks and support a team. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  
• A proactive, empathetic and cheerful approach to care.
• Experience of formulating appropriate care plans and risk assessments for clients
• 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

• Administering medication
  
• Suctioning and respiratory support
  
• PEG feeding
  
• Catheter care
  
• Repositioning and pressure care
  
• Using hoisting equipment
  
• Recording and reporting observations accurately
  
• You will be expected to work independently overnight, responding to Verity’s needs but will have support from the sleeping night worker if required.

Main Skills and Behaviours for both roles

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.
• 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.
• A team player who understands the importance of feedback to qualified members of the team.
• 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
• Confident with using IT
• Able to ensure consistency 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.