Senior Nurse/Team Leader (RGN)

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews, is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Senior Nurse/Team Leader to work in Ipswich on a full-time basis.

The salary for this permanent Senior Nurse/Team Leader job is £40,000 - £42,607.50 per annum.

Benefits:

• 35 days’ holiday including bank holidays
• Pension contributions
• Blue Light Card: Discounts for NHS, emergency services, social care, and armed forces personnel, both online and in-store
• Perkbox membership
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): Confidential support for personal and professional issues
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Long service and staff awards
• Free uniform
• Free parking

Main Duties:

• Lead and support the nursing team to improve the quality of care, providing guidance to colleagues and families. Delegate tasks effectively, ensuring safety and assessing team members' skills.
• Manage the care for a designated group of service users, coordinating with the multi-disciplinary team, service users, and their families to plan and evaluate care. Assess how policy changes impact service delivery.
• Collaborate with the Head of Clinical Services/Ward Manager to evaluate potential service users in partnership with Health and Social Services commissioners. Develop, implement, and review care plans based on evidence-based practices.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date records of service user interactions, adhering to legal and procedural standards, whether manually or electronically.
• Ensure all clinical staff, including yourself, receive formal supervision and clinical oversight as per Brainkind’s standards. Uphold and monitor high clinical standards.
• Identify and address training needs, supporting staff development and promoting a learning culture. Encourage sharing of knowledge and adoption of best practices.
• Educate patients, carers, and colleagues, facilitating their learning through formal and informal teaching. Mentor students and assess their skills as needed.

Requirements of the Senior Nurse/Team Leader:

• Registered Nurse or degree-level qualification.
• Experience in specialist palliative or neurological care, depending on service requirements.
• Proven skills in leading, building, and influencing in a clinical setting.
• Knowledge of current legislation within the independent care sector.
• Demonstrable experience of practising in a self-directed and highly motivated manner.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to convey difficult messages to service users and their families.
• Negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Ability to effectively manage change and performance.
• Capability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting.

Contact:

This Senior Nurse/Team Leader job is advertised by Ryan Mann; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant role in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.