This role combines management responsibility for the District Nursing Team and nursing responsibility for a defined patient case load. The focus of this role is to ensure that safe and effective, high quality evidence based care is delivered in an efficient and cost effective manner, ensuring that performance management targets are met and evidenced through data production and analysis.
The Managerial domain of this post involves the requirement for innovative leadership and professional support for the community team, ensuring effective utilisation of resources within a delegated Team.
The clinical responsibilities for this role as named nurse for a Community Nursing Team will include the assessment of patient need, delivery and evaluation of care interventions in line with evidence based practice.
To provide advanced clinical case management for patients with multiple long term conditions, living in the community who are at risk of deteriorating health and preventing unnecessary A&E attendances and hospital admissions.
To facilitate early and timely discharges from hospital, and to prevent unnecessary longer length of stay. To perform as an expert clinical advisor, and to provide leadership and management.
This will involve strong relationships with Specialist Teams, and GPs to facilitate optimal joint working on care for patients with complex needs and long term conditions.
The post holder will lead a team of nurses and support staff with the
responsibility of managing the care for a defined caseload.
Community Nurses work as part of a team delivering high quality evidence
based nursing care to clients within their own home, residential homes and
clinical environments. As part of a District Nursing team you will have a
role placing emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation as well as curative and palliative care.
The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and will assess, plan,
implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of
patients, relatives, carers, students and other health care professionals.
The successful candidate will be part of a progressive and supportive team environment located in South East London. Our District Nursing Service delivers care to a diverse population across the London Royal Borough of Greenwich within patient’s homes.
You will be committed to the development of the team through effective leadership and be given the opportunity to develop your own clinical skills through the delivery of a wide range of evidence based care and an active personal development plan. You must possess excellent communication, assessment and care planning skills and have an excellent knowledge of clinical standards. At least a year of experience of managing a District Nurse team caseload is essential to the role.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• To assess, plan, implement and provide regular evaluation of health
care needs in conjunction with patients, their carers and other
appropriate members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Prioritisation, organisation and appropriate delegation of the
responsibilities and workloads within the team will be required to
ensure efficient and effective service provision.
• To be responsible for the caseload management of patients within the practice population.
• To be responsible for keeping up to date with current issues and
events in Primary Health Care.
• To actively participate and influence the developments of Community
nursing services.
• To provide support and health education programmes for patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.
• To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the trust as
required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the
service.
• To work alongside other members of the multidisciplinary team e.g.
attend meetings of Primary Health Care Team.
• To ensure own mandatory training and team members mandatory
training is kept up to date in line with Trust policies
• Ability to use Information Technology including Word, email and the
internet and RIO
• Participation in complaint investigations, when requested
• BSc Specialist Community Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing.
• District Nursing managing team experience 2 yrs
• Experience of change management and implementing in practice
• Management/Leadership Course
• Mentorship Course or recognised alternative
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Oct 2024
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