Nursing Team Leader

Nursing Team Leader

The closing date is 09 February 2026

The post holder will be a learning disability nurse with experience of working in Specialist Learning Disability Services (SLDS) in the community. They will be working in the Specialist Learning Disability Service based in West Hertfordshire leading a team of learning disability nurses. They will be accountable for their actions recognising their professional boundaries & competences. They will be required to take a role in the development of Specialist Learning Disability Services.

All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

• Within HPFT:
  Service users;
  Clinical staff in all Learning Disability and Mental Health Teams;
  Practice Governance Lead;
  Line manager, Service Line Lead, Lead Nurse and Managing Director;
  Administration staff.
• Within NHS Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire Health & Community Service:
  Service users;
  Community Learning Disability Nurses;
  Social Workers;
  Community Care Officers;
  Other Clinical Staff;
  Service Providers.
• Outside NHS Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire Health & Community Service:
  Service users;
  Families/Carers;
  General Public;
  Other Statutory and Non-Statutory Services.

• To observe and abide by the NMC 'Code of Professional Conduct' and all other NMC professional guidance.
• To meet the N.M.C. Prep requirements and CPD as a registered nurse.
• To work towards the implementation of Valuing People Now (2009).
• To take the lead in providing and maintaining the management structure of the team.
• To work as a learning disability nurse with a special interest in challenging behaviour and mental health wellbeing for people with learning disabilities.
• To work with professional Leads and Community Team Manager in the development of the Specialist Learning Disability Service.
• To be responsible for ensuring the smooth running and co-ordination of the nursing component of the service and monitoring of service activity.
• To work in liaison with service users, carers, other professionals, and co-operatively with other services ensuring a needs-led service.
• To be responsible for identifying and developing opportunities for Service User Involvement in key local and Trust wide service operation and development.
• To ensure the service is responsive & timely by taking the lead in the management of referrals to the nurse team.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Clinical Responsibility

To be professionally & legally responsible & accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of service users in your care.

Undertake clinical risk assessment and management plans and develop within these, comprehensive multi agency contingency planning.

To provide specialist clinical advice for service users who present challenging needs. This includes direct work with service users and families, advice to colleagues, other service providers and carers.

To manage a caseload and operate as a named health worker to service users.

To identify and provide training in response to specific service user needs.

To carry out assessment of individual needs, make recommendations of how to meet those needs, support the implementation of these recommendations and monitor, evaluate and review the input.

To carry out joint assessments with other MDT members.

To take a lead in the promotion and development of evidence based, quality nursing practice.

To take the lead in facilitating student nurse placements.

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