Job overview
Are you a passionate, and caring district nurse, who can oversee the provision of high-quality holistic care for people in their own home with acute, complex, and long-term conditions?
Do you have excellent clinical skills, leadership and management qualities, ability to implement high standards of patient care, and ensure a positive patient experience? If so, then we would like to meet you.
A vacancy has arisen within the Unplanned Care Team, which has an innovative approach to nursing care. It involves quick responses to patients in their home to assess, plan, manage and evaluate the presenting issue, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and help to facilitate early hospital discharges.
You will be leading a team of qualified nurses, nursing associates and health care support workers, supported by a community team leader, to take an innovative solution-focused approach to challenging situations.
Unplanned services are committed to supporting continue professional development and we will support you in your ongoing career aspirations.
If this is you, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The District Nurse Caseload Manager is a predominantly Clinical role, time will be split with an 80% Clinical and 20% Non-clinical focus. The Caseload Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day smooth running of the caseload and hold clinical responsibility for the caseload they are managing and leading on, ensuring patients are appropriately assessed and care is delivered in a timely manner with the involvement of patients and carers as appropriate.
The caseload holder will also ensure that team members are appropriately trained, supported and, have the right knowledge, skills, and competencies to meet the requirements of the role.
We are looking for a highly motivated applicant who is interested in meeting the challenge of working in the community with patients in their home setting. As part of the Unplanned care team, you will be working with a variety of disciplines within the multidisciplinary team to achieve the best outcomes for patients. You’ll be working on a rotational basis as part of a seven-day service covering 24-hours-a-day with the support of agile technology to help you deliver timely, high-quality care.
Working for our organisation
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Current NMC Registration/relevant allied health care professional qualification
Desirable criteria
2. Teaching/ Assessing in clinical practice
Special Knowledge / Experience / Competence
Essential criteria
3. Experience of care co–ordination/care management.
4. An awareness of current Health and Social Care policies
Desirable criteria
5. Qualification in the management of one or more chronic disease/LTC
6. Experience of community health care
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.
In view of Home Office Immigration Regulations all applicants must state their current immigration status, including expiry dates.
Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
The Trust’s purpose is to create connected communities and help people to feel as healthy as they can be at every point in their lives and our vision is to connect people to the best quality care, when and where they need it and be a national role model as an employer and provide our staff with the best place to work.
Bradford has been awarded the coveted status of UK City of Culture 2025. The year is set to deliver more than 1000 new performances and events including 365 artist commissions, a series of major arts festivals as well as exciting national and international collaborations. Its themes will be rooted in the unique heritage and character of Bradford and will reveal the magic of the district that is held in its people, its ambition, and above all, its potential.
We would welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health and care needs.
We welcome people from all backgrounds and in particular Bradford District Care Trust is keen to reflect the population we serve, we are currently underrepresented in terms of black and minority ethnic staff. Applications are encouraged from these groups, but it must be stressed that selection will be solely on merit and in accordance with the Trust recruitment policy.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.