Nurse Team Leader-Peritoneal Dialysis

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The nurse team leader will support the home therapies patient program, providing high quality, effective, individualized care through the assessment of patient care needs to develop, implement and evaluate them with supervision.

• Prioritise a program of education and training that is individualised to patients’ needs that ensures consistency, thoroughness and safety.
• To support the patient, independently planning safe transfer home in a timely manner.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

• Carry out planned care and training for a group of patients without direct supervision.
• Assess patient’s suitability for home therapy, mental, cognitive and physical ability.
• Ensure the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence based, individualised patient care for patients.
• Plan, organise, and allocate patients to the PD and HHD training programme according to individual suitability and clinical needs.
• Prioritise and manage patient workload in line with referrals, in liaison with the senior nurse.
• Use initiative when training targets are not being achieved, escalating concerns to the senior nurse in home therapies team at the earliest opportunity, and agreeing revised action plans.