Senior Nurse and Preceptorship Champion

We are recruiting Senior Nurses to join our teams in the West of Leeds, there are positions available at Pudsey and Yeadon. We have a third role who will initially be working as a Preceptorship Champion for a period of 12 months, before joining a neighbourhood team in the West of the city in a senior nurse role. Our service is at the heart of the NHS long term plan, providing more care in such as patients homes, whilst enabling early discharge from hospital and reducing hospital admissions. When you join us, we will work with you to develop your own personal development plan. We won't just stop there, we are proud of our career progression offer that will allow you to develop your clinical, leadership and preceptorship skills, supporting you to undertake training and offering the District Nursing Apprenticeship. The service runs 7am to 10pm every day. We understand that people have busy lives, and we offer flexible work opportunities. This opportunity requires successful candidates to commit to a programme of ongoing education and professional development, dependent on previous experience., As a Senior Nurse providing clinical leadership and overseeing the delivery of high quality care within a Neighbourhood Team you will:

• Have excellent communication skills and be able to motivate others.
• Manage a clinical caseload and lead a cluster of Staff Nurses and Neighbourhood Clinical Assistants to provide excellent patient care.
• Be dynamic, innovative, passionate and committed with experience of case management and multidisciplinary working.
• Work alongside District Nurses, Community Matrons, Ots and PTs, Neighbourhood Clinical Assistants, Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Self Management Facilitators in one MDT to provide truly holistic care.
• Be resilient and able to support others through change to maintain the delivery of high quality, compassionate, proactive and safe care.
The Preceptorship Champion role is a new one and therefore, you will be involved in shaping and evaluating the role moving forward. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills in supporting new starters in practice, whilst working in collaboration with your neighbourhoods senior leadership teams, senior colleagues and other preceptorship champions. The main duties of the role include; Shadow and support new starters clinically and help them with confidence building and competency sign off, involvement with clinical training as required you will complete 1:1s and action plans with new starters and provide in base training for them in small groups.

Working for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leeds Community Healthcare provides a range of community-based health services across the whole city. We treat people in their homes, local health centres and community hospitals, and work in partnership with other local Trusts, charities and Leeds City Council. We have a strong culture based on deeply-held values, and our focus at all times is on delivering high quality care to the people of Leeds. In our most recent CQC evaluation, we were rated "Good", with our Adult Services rated "Outstanding" for caring.