Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Home Therapies Team Leader
The closing date is 11 June 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a team leader within the home therapies team at Liverpool University Hospital. The home therapies team works across two sites and covers a large geographical area in the community. The team leader will need to travel between sites and may involve community support when required.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, hardworking and dynamic nurse who has experience working in a community dialysis at band 6/7 level to join our team.
The successful candidate will be a motivated leader, with excellent proven managerial and leadership skills, who has the drive and passion to create an inspirational learning and working environment that continuously strives for the highest standards of quality care, with patient safety at the forefront of the services and care provided.
The team leader role involves a combination of management and senior nurse clinical support; therefore dialysis experience is essential.
You will be supported in your role by the home therapies nursing lead and a team of consultants.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have management responsibility for the home therapies team, ensuring a high standard of nursing care, alongside providing senior clinical support and expertise within the team.
Key responsibilities will include developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care, effective leadership and staff management/development.
The post holder will support a team of clinical nurse specialists to deliver safe and effective training and education to patients and their support partners, ensuring they are successful in the home dialysis programme, and will be the senior support for clinical decision making within the remit of a nurse‑led unit, ensuring patients are regularly followed up and supported.
The post holder will always work within the NMC's Code of Professional Conduct.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities – from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single-site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Job responsibilities
The Home Therapies Team Leader will act as the clinical expert and professional resource to the multi‑professional team, patients and carers within the service.
The post holder will work closely with the home therapies nursing lead and lead clinician to develop the specialist area of practice in order to support the current service growth and development to meet the 20% requirement of all patients on renal replacement therapy being on a home therapy.
The post holder will be expected to provide first‑line management and lead a team of specialist nurses.
The post holder will provide leadership to the team of nurse specialists and, working with the nursing lead, develop new roles/ways of working (High Impact Changes) linked to directorate business plans.
For a more detailed role specific information please refer to attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
* Post‑basic specialist qualification relevant to speciality
* Recognised teaching qualification
* First degree
* Research qualification
Other
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Diplomatic
* Assertive and confident
* Driving licence is essential for community working
* Personal and professional maturity
* Recognition of own limitations
* Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team
* Flexibility
* Able to travel between sites
Knowledge
* Understanding and application of clinical governance
* Basic IT skills, including email and word processing
Experience
* Demonstrable experience at Band 6/7 level
* Extensive clinical experience in home dialysis setting
* Evidence of staff and patient education & training
* Evidence of application of current nursing issues and developments
* Evidence of managing a change
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.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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