Nursing Team Leader
The closing date is 30 November 2025
Job summary
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.
Key Relationships:
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.
General Practitioners.
Other Clinical Staff.
Service Providers
Paid carers.
Outside NHS Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire Health & Community Service
Service users.
Families/Carers
Paid carers.
General Public
Other Statutory and Non-Statutory Services
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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?
Details
Date posted
14 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£50,008 to £56,908 a year per annum, pro rata (inc 5% HCAS)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
367-LD&F-9862
Job locations
Colne House - West SLDS
21 Upton Road 3rd Floor
Watford
WD170JL
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colne House - West SLDS
21 Upton Road 3rd Floor
Watford
WD170JL
Employer's website
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