District Nurse

Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse to join our friendly and innovative District Nursing Team covering Hanley, Bucknall, Bentilee PCN based at Bentilee Neighbourhood Centre.

We are looking for a qualified District Nurse to lead our HBB Community Nursing Team. We have a great interest in moving District Nursing forward in line with local population and service needs. You will work alongside our Lead Specialist Practitioners, Operational Leads and Senior Community Nurses to provide effective leadership, support staff development and caseload management.

You will work alongside the leadership team to ensure proactive and effective care delivery, liaising and working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure individualised and evidence based care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

You will manage a caseload, alongside the Lead Specialist Practitioner, including over a wide geographical area by providing support and supervision to staff to enable provision of high quality person-centred care to patients within their own homes and clinic settings.

You will hold a key role in building and maintaining excellent working practices with Social Care and Allied Health colleagues within the primary care network.

You will an effective leader, demonstrating care, compassion and empathy and role modelling the Trust values.

You will be competent in a variety of clinical skills, and be able to share your knowledge and expertise with others, signposting to more specialist services as appropriate.

You will be able to engage complex patients, agree mutually beneficial treatment plans and to plan, implement and evaluate care pathways.

You will support with quality assurance, including audit, incident reporting and gaining patient feedback. You will work with the leadership team to evaluate this in line with objectives.

The successful candidate will take responsibility for the planning and delivery of care and the management of staff in the absence of the Clinical Lead/Operational Lead. You must be able to demonstrate managerial and leadership skills and be able to make sound clinical decisions independently.

We are looking for someone with excellent clinical, communication, interpersonal and team skills to work collaboratively across all care settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Essential Qualifications & Training requirements for the post:

-Degree in Nursing or equivalent -NMC Registration -Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing

Essential Experience

-Working within District Nursing in a multidisciplinary team  -Caseload management

For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents below.