An Exciting opportunity is available for the right candidate to join our District Nursing Team in Prestwich. The team in Prestwich are looking to recruit a Band 6 with a wealth of clinical skills and knowledge and be flexible and innovative to join their very supportive and extremely knowledgeable team. Support begins at the point of recruitment and throughout your role to gain competence and confidence. We are part of a dynamic, integrated health and Social multidisciplinary team delivering high quality care, advice, and support and monitoring to patients, their families and staff within the community settings. You will be involved with the development of INT working and leading on new initiatives to prevent admissions and facilitate discharge. You will work under the direction and supervision of the District Nurse Lead to provide care to patients with complex and non-complex needs with the aim of promoting independence and self-management. You should have excellent communication skills as this role is key working within the integrated neighbourhood team of co-located health and social care teams. You will be expected to provide high levels of clinical competence including assessments of patients, and also be expected to support the community DN teams. You will visit patients in their own homes including residential homes; you will assess and provide a management plan for complex and acutely unwell priority patients, you will provide support to the team in the delivery of unscheduled nursing care. The post holder should have good organisational and assessment skills with the ability to prioritise workload responding to patient priority and need. The service runs 7 days a week, bank holidays and weekends. Shift patterns can be negotiated to support a work life balance. The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Michelle Wallace Job title: District Nurse Lead Email address: michelle.wallace2nca.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07871989021 NA