Nurse Team Leader

Job summary

6 month secondment, full time

The Nurse Team Leader on A4 Ward plays a key role in delivering safe, compassionate, and personcentred care for older adults with complex and often changing health needs.

The postholder provides visible clinical leadership, supporting the coordination of daily ward activity and ensuring high standards of assessment, care planning, and evaluation. They act as a role model for best practice in the care of the elderly, promoting dignity, independence, and a holistic approach to patient wellbeing.

A central part of the role involves supervising and guiding nursing and support staff, fostering a positive and inclusive team culture. The Nurse Team Leader supports staff development through mentoring, coaching, and constructive feedback, helping to maintain a skilled and confident workforce. They contribute to effective communication across the multidisciplinary team, ensuring smooth patient flow and safe discharge planning.

The postholder maintains high standards of documentation, medication safety, and adherence to clinical governance, safeguarding, and infection prevention requirements. They work closely with patients, families, and carers to ensure involvement in care decisions and to enhance the overall patient experience on A4 Ward.

This role is vital in supporting service improvement, quality initiatives, and the ongoing development of the Care of the Elderly service.

Main duties of the job

The Nurse Team Leader on A4 Ward supports the delivery of safe, effective, and personcentred care for older adults with complex health needs.

The role involves coordinating daily clinical activity, ensuring that assessments, care plans, and evaluations are completed to a high standard and reflect each patients physical, emotional, and social needs.

The postholder provides clinical leadership, supports decisionmaking, and ensures timely escalation when patient conditions change.

A key responsibility is supervising and guiding nursing and support staff, promoting a positive and supportive team culture. This includes organising staffing, allocating duties, leading handovers, and contributing to staff development through coaching and feedback. The Nurse Team Leader encourages evidencebased practice and helps maintain a learning environment across A4 Ward.

The role requires maintaining accurate documentation, ensuring safe medication administration, upholding infection prevention, safeguarding, and clinical governance standards. Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, the postholder supports effective discharge planning, reduces avoidable harm, and promotes patient flow.

Communication with patients, families, and carers is central to the role, ensuring dignity, involvement, clear understanding of care plans. The Nurse Team Leader also contributes to audits, quality improvement, and service development to enhance the overall performance of A4 Ward.

About us

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) is a combined acute and community Trust serving our local population of around 270,000 people. Our vision is to always act the right way and be proud to provide exceptional healthcare to the communities of Rotherham

As a Trust we are on a journey to excellence and our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do for patients. In the latest NHS Staff Survey, we are the second most improved Trust in England for would you recommend the Trust as a place to work?, and were one of the most improved for staff engagement overall

But don't just take our word for it each year hundreds of colleagues receive nominations for our Excellence and Proud awards, showcasing our brilliant people and recognising their achievements. Our people make a difference to the lives of patients every day and we are proud of the improvements we are making

All of our colleagues are key to our journey, and we are continuing to improve our services by upholding the Trusts values of Ambitious, Caring and Together. If you are passionate about making a difference, then please apply to join us on our journey to excellence

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Employer details

Employer name

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Rotherham Nhs Foundation Trust

Moorgate Road

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

S602UD

Employer's website

https://www.therotherhamft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Rotherham Nhs Foundation Trust

Moorgate Road

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

S602UD

Employer's website

https://www.therotherhamft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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