Female Nurse Team Leader

About The Role

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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

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.

Pay and Benefits:

• £22.00-£25.00 dependent on shift pattern
• 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:

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

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.

About You

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.

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

About Us

ILS Case Management is the UK's leading nationwide Case Management company.

When a person's life has been changed by injury, we address the practicalities. We work with children and adults who have had moderate or catastrophic, complex injuries. We assess individual needs and are able to provide a comprehensive Case Management designed to maximise independence. We are CQC registered and compliant with their standards.

Our Case Managers work closely with our Clients, and we carry out all the recruitment processes on behalf of our Clients; and will support you, from your initial telephone interview right through to arranging employer interviews, trial shifts and placement.

If you are successfully recruited, you will be employed directly by our client or their Deputy appointed by the Court of Protection. However, ILS will manage your day to day employment, providing you with the support you need to carry out your role. Working as a Carer or Support Worker for an ILS client means that you will have a dedicated Case Manager to oversee your client's care needs.

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