Deputy Team Lead Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced and motivated Band 6 Registered Nurse to join the Watford and Three Rivers Community Nursing Team as a Deputy Team Lead. You will co-lead a neighbourhood team, managing a patient caseload, assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based care for patients in their homes. The position involves supporting patient independence and improving outcomes, with a focus on collaborative working and effective communication. Previous community nursing experience is particularly valued.
Key responsibilities
- Set and maintain standards of care, deploying, coordinating, and supervising the nursing team and learners.
- Provide leadership and management to a team of community nurses and other staff across Herts Valleys.
- Be responsible for the team's assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of individualised nursing care to patients living in the community.
- Be responsible for the team's maintenance of patient and other records.
- Participate in the long-term management of patients within the locality.
- Have continued responsibility for a defined caseload.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration
- Practice Supervisor/Assessor or equivalent
- Specialist Nursing Practice (District Nursing) Degree or will undertake training
- Nurse Prescribing or will undertake training
- Evidence of personal development
- Knowledge of NMC code of professional conduct
- Experience Community Nurse
- Management of a team
- Management of change within a complex environment
- Experience of teaching others
- Proven leadership ability
- Proven clinical skill at Senior Community Nursing level
- Experience of participating in investigation/ management of complaints
- Knowledge of recent developments in NHS
- Knowledge of Evidence based practice
- Knowledge of NMC code of professional conduct
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Desirable criteria
- First Level Degree
- Independent Prescriber is Experience
- Relevant courses in Long Term Conditions Management
- Course of Top to Toe examination/ diagnosis Experience
- Evidence of participating in clinical audits in the workplace
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £41,957 – £50,387 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Central London Community Health Trust
Deputy Team Lead Nurse
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!
We are a dynamic and forward-thinking team looking for an experienced and motivated Band 6 Registered Nurse to join our established Watford and Three Rivers Community Nursing Team as a Deputy Team Lead.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to co-lead one of our neighbourhood teams, working closely with and supported by experienced Team Leaders.
The position is varied and rewarding, with responsibility for managing a patient caseload. You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based care for patients in their own homes, helping to support independence and improve outcomes.
We are particularly interested in candidates with previous community nursing experience.
We are looking for someone who is committed to collaborative working, approachable, and an effective communicator. You will be confident working both independently and as part of a team, and open to new ideas and ways of working.
As this is a community-based role, with travel between patient homes, there is a requirement to hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a
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