The Team Leader has a pivotal role to ensure that:
- Improve and enhance the patient client experience
- Ensure the delivery of safe and effective care
- Manage and develop the performance of their team
Find out more about the:
- Core Responsibilities of this important leadership role by clicking on the link below and the
- core elements of the KSF Post Outline
The Team Leader working in a Community setting is responsible and accountable for their service area. The Job Purpose was defined in four core headings regionally agreed Job Description and Competence Assessment
- Promote and monitor safe and effective practice
- Enhance the patient/client experience
- Provide effective leadership and management
- Contribute to the delivery of the organisations objectives
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Core Responsiblities
The Team Leader is responsible and accountable for assuring:
- Safe and effective person centred care is provided by nurses/midwives and support staff to meet the needs of patients/clients and their carers
- The highest standards of cleanliness and infection prevention and control are achieved and maintained (Ward Sisters Charter DHSSPS, 2006)
- Effective leadership and management of nurses/midwives and support staff with clear lines of professional and organisational accountability performance and development of staff
- Nurses/midwives and support staff communicate effectively with patients/clients and their carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Effective management of all information to meet the needs of patients/clients/carers, the organisation and its staff, partner organisations and other agencies
- Proactive development and monitoring of nursing /midwifery services to improve the quality of care provided for patients/clients and their carers
- Effective resource management within allocated budgetary constraints
- Enhancement of the patient/client experience in all aspects of the patient/client journey
- Implementation of effective risk management processes
- Promotion of a supportive environment that enables staff and students to demonstrate ongoing learning and development
- Provision of an environment that enhances multi-disciplinary team working