Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 District Nurse - 1.0 WTE, 37.5 hours a week.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated District Nurse looking for an opportunity to lead and develop our friendly and supportive Burton Town District Nursing team. We seek someone who is dynamic and motivated and has the confidence to support, coach, and develop individuals to deliver consistently high-quality services. Excellent communication and time management skills, and sound clinical knowledge, are essential.
You will be responsible for the ongoing assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care. You will manage a caseload of patients while providing support and supervision for team members and students to enable the provision of high-quality person-centred care to patients within their own homes, ensuring high standards of care are delivered in line with MPFT's policies and meeting locally required targets.
Essential requirements for the post: A Degree in Nursing or equivalent and a Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing.
Main Duties of the Job
Because we are an innovative, integrated Community service covering the East Staffordshire area, including the Burton Town area, Uttoxeter, and the surrounding Villages. We work closely across the Nursing teams and AHP's, including Podiatry, Physio, Falls Team, Stroke, and Rehab team, including our out-of-hours service, to ensure that our patients are at the centre of the care provided.
We pride ourselves on our strong leadership, innovation, prevention, and implementation of care within the living model in all our patient care. We support the development and learning of all staff, having great links with our local universities, while also priding ourselves on growing our own staff and the leaders of the future.
About Us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression
* Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
* Options for flexible working
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
* Free car parking at all trust sites
* Free flu vaccinations every year
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Job Responsibilities
The Post holder will:
* Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the role
* Demonstrate at all times the Partnership Trust Values of: People, Empowerment, and Partnership.
* Be a Registered Nurse and have a detailed professional and clinical background. They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in the following areas:
* Palliative care
* Management of continence
* Administration of medication
* Management of long-term conditions
* Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust, including the community
* Be skilled in the assessment of complex/specialist care/support needs and in the development, implementation, and evaluation of care/support
* Have supervisory, training, and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
* Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to challenges.
Work with the Operational Lead undertaking delegated tasks in team management.
For further details, please see the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
* Working towards SPQDN qualification
* Experience working as a SSN/Band 6 in community
* Health assessment
* V150 prescribing
Experience
* Caseload management
* Leadership and management of a team
* Community experience
* Wound care management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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