Deputy Lead Nurse

Deputy Lead Nurse

The closing date is 04 March 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced senior nurse with a specialist interest in Neonatal Homecare Education to join the Neonatal Homecare team covering the hospitals of UHN (Leicester, Kettering & Northampton). We are looking for a motivated, highly skilled Neonatal Nurse qualified in speciality, with experience at Band 6 or above within the speciality of Neonates, passionate about delivering high quality evidence based care.

You should have enthusiasm to lead and develop the Neonatal Community Homecare team to enable practice learning to the highest quality. We would expect you to be proficient, approachable and a compassionate role model. In addition you should be an expert clinician in Neonatal nursing, with a proven track record of clinical achievement, continuous development and the ability to improve educational outcomes in a continued and sustainable way.

This would be your opportunity to influence the experience of infants and families by developing education within a strong and dedicated workforce.

Main duties of the job

As Homecare education lead, you would work collaboratively with the governance, safety and quality improvement teams, to address learning from incidents, complaints and family feedback.

You will directly support, supervise & monitor the educational needs of the team as a whole including development needs of both registered and non registered staff based across the sites of Leicester, Kettering and Northampton.

You will facilitate mandatory training, induction of new starters & training packages, as well as coordinating neonatal conferences.

As a key senior member of the neonatal homecare team, you will be expected to deputise in the absence of the neonatal homecare Matron and Band 7 deputy lead nurses across both Leicester & Northamptonshire hospitals.

You will represent the homecare service at network and senior clinical service meetings by contributing to report writing.

Duties including general team management to ensure leadership and clinical care is maintained will also be integral to this post in order to meet the needs of the service.

About us

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years ().

We have four primary goals:

• high quality care for all
• being a great place to work
• partnerships for impact
• research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

• we are compassionate
• we are proud
• we are inclusive
• we are one team

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:

Job responsibilities

To provide leadership, support and advice relating to the provision of Neonatal Home care services.

The post holder will be an excellent team worker and will be responsible for ensuring the highest standard of clinical care and evidence based practice for infants within the scope of neonatal outreach, providing specialist on going care for the neonate and advice, support and education to the family in the home environment.

Dynamic resource planning (staffing) when faced with variations in activity /team availability across all sites, devising innovative/efficient solutions where necessary.

Promote a positive and professional working environment, providing clinical and safeguarding supervision.

Manage the referral process for infants requiring neonatal homecare services.

Identify and organise care for babies requiring neonatal Homecare support.

Allocate, coordinate, monitor and assess outreach service workload, ensuring resources are deployed appropriately.

Maintain and further develop own expert nursing practice skills & abilities and through effective role modelling ensure that the nursing practice of colleagues is continually developed and enhanced.

Develop and facilitate others in promoting an evidence based learning culture and practice.

Review with colleagues, evidence based protocols and guidelines within neonatal outreach.

Promote change in nursing and clinical practice in order to improve and promote early safe discharge management of infants into the care of the neonatal outreach service.

Please see job description/person specification for full details on the role.

Person Specification Experience

• Significant experience at band 6 or above in the stated specialist area
• Knowledge of neonatal outreach service management
• Understanding of current issues in neonatal healthcare Discharge Planning and community care
• Service Development and/or change management

Training & Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Level 1) RGN /RSCN. Current NMC registration with no restrictions to practice
• Post Registration qualification in speciality (ENB405 /QIS)
• Recognised Teaching and Assessors qualification Willing to undergo training in relation to post
• Degree with relevance in specialism
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Community care of the neonate qualification
• Education at degree level or evidence of working to that level (L7) in specialism

Analytical and Judgement skills

• Good initiative
• Able to re prioritise
• Evidence of participation/undertaking research/audit

Skills

• Evidence of managing/leading changeGood IT literacy

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's Values and Behaviours

Communication and relationship skills

• Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a multi disciplinary team
• Liaison with a wide multi disciplinary team
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent communication skills, an ability to discuss, advise and negotiate care with medical teams
• Experience of working on own

Planning and organisation skills

• Decision making
• Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload
• Problem solving complex issues

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

• Able to demonstrate a commitment to and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs.
• All staff are expected to engage in compassionate and inclusive leadership in the provision of high quality care and interactions with others

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part time

Reference number

304-W&C