District Nurse Team Lead

You will work as part of the 24-hour district nursing service, under the direction of the district nursing Team Manager / Leader, providing high quality holistic care to patients.,

• To undertake responsibility for a delegated caseload under the supervision of the District Nursing Team Leader and in the absence of the Team Leader, carrying out initial assessment of care needs and the provision and evaluation of individual patient programmes of care including prescribing equipment and the discharge of patients from the caseload.
• Assume delegated responsibility for holistic assessment and the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes of care/care packages, contributing to complex assessment/care packages.
• To provide high quality palliative care to patients and their families, as required.
• Maintain clinical competency in a range of extended skills, as required to meet the needs of patients on the caseload., As a District Nurse Team Lead you will be part of our valued team in our Community Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including
  
  We are seeking an experienced and motivated District Nurse Team Lead to join our community services, providing strong clinical and operational leadership within a busy and rewarding environment., Registered General Nurse
• Diploma in health-related area or equivalent experience
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team/multi agency working
• You need to have knowledge and experience of undertaking complex assessments and the planning and evaluation of care package
• Excellent communications skills both written and verbal
• Evidence of effective interpersonal skills
• Clinical Risk assessment skills
• Ability to problem solve and make clinical decisions
• Knowledge of safeguarding adults and at-risk vulnerable adults
• Excellent computer skills, including the use of electronic clinical systems
Desirable:
• Teaching/mentorship post-registration qualification
• Non-medical prescriber
• Clinical audit
• Experience in Palliative Care
• Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice
• Knowledge of lone working risks and associated risk management
• Motivated to self-develop
  
  Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.