Job overview
Does your passion lie in community nursing?
An opportunity has arisen to further your nursing career within our District Nursing Service as a District Nursing Locality Lead in the South West locality in Oxfordshire.
You will be responsible for leading a District Nursing Team, operationally line managing staff and focusing on clinical service development and educational workstreams with senior service leads.
You will work in an integrated way with other the District Nursing Locality Lead and Advanced District Nurse Specialist to lead the District Nursing locality.
You will work clinically within the District Nursing locality, with patients in their own homes, clinics and care homes.
Main duties of the job
The Oxfordshire District Nursing service is a dynamic and forward-thinking service and is involved in national community nursing initiatives. The service has a well-established career progression framework and is developing further opportunities at a senior level for clinical leadership.
Working for our organisation
You will have an opportunity to work with supportive teams and committed colleagues.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
3. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
4. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
5. Competitive pension scheme
6. Lease car scheme
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. Employee Assistance Programme
9. Mental Health First Aiders
10. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
11. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
12. To provide strong, integrated clinical leadership and management of the District Nursing team, working especially closely with the District Nursing Lead – Advanced District Nurse Specialist.
13. To lead on the educational agenda in the area, and to lead on specific educational work streams.
14. To lead on service development in the District Nursing team, ensuring delivery of skilled nursing care to patients whose needs are best met in the community.
15. To act as a conduit between the integrated leadership team and the District Nursing team.
16. To be accountable for the management, development and supervision of identified staff within the team.
17. To work as part of an integrated locality team.
18. To work in partnership to reduce hospital admission and facilitate discharge.
19. To work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
20. Deputise for 8a Operations Manager and Matrons.
What we need from you!
21. A qualified Registered Nurse with previous District or Community Nursing Experience with proven Leadership Skills
22. Passion and drive for developing your clinical skills in a changeable environment.
23. A keen interest in new and upcoming technologies within Nursing and Healthcare.
24. Be self-motivated and able to work autonomously as well as showing initiative and promoting new ideas on how to improve the service.
25. Be compassionate, caring and creative with excellent communication skills.
26. A flexible and positive attitude.
Please see the job description and person specification attached to this advert for more information on the job role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
27. Registered General Nurse (adult)
28. Comprehensive Assessment of the person with frailty or Advanced History Taking module, or willingness to undertake frailty
29. Leadership module or willingness to undertake Trust Applied Leadership in Healthcare module
Desirable criteria
30. DNSPQ
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
31. Evidence of leading within and across teams, including multi-disciplinary and cross organisational working
32. Experience of planning and delivering teaching programmes and staff educational needs analysis
33. Budgetary and resource management.
Desirable criteria
34. Evidence of participation in service review and facilitating change in the delivery of clinical services
Skills
Essential criteria
35. IT literate with intermediate key board skills
36. Well-developed written skills.
37. Ability to develop and sustain relationships with partner organisations and the public
38. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
39. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
40. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
41. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
42. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
43. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
44. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing