Are you a Qualified District Nurse looking for a new challenge? Are you caring, ambitious, forward thinking & values driven? Are you passionate about delivering safe, effective and compassionate care to patients in the place they call home?
We are looking for a dynamic, passionate, and committed District Nurse with experience of caseload management and multi-disciplinary working, together with excellent communication skills, resilience and great leadership skills with the ability to motivate and support others through change in order to enable us to maintain the delivery of high quality, compassionate, proactive and safe care.
We currently have a District Nurse vacancy for the Wakefield/Pontefract area of our District Nursing Networks. The established teams of qualified District Nurses, Senior Nurses, Community Staff Nurses, Nursing Associates and Healthcare Support Workers work autonomously to provide high quality nursing care to patients predominantly in a place they call home or a clinic setting.
This is an exciting time to join our District Nursing service, as we continue to develop in response to the changing needs of communities, and are starting to develop our Integrated Neighbourhood Teams.
We are looking for an experienced or newly qualified District Nurse to join our teams. All flexible working applications will be considered to help you achieve a great work/life balance.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of the District Nursing team you will develop extensive clinical assessment and case management skills. District Nursing teams work closely with their community colleagues to maintain patients' independence at home by utilising their excellent networks with our partners and voluntary agencies in local communities, planning and delivering complex packages of care.
The post holder is responsible for managing and leading a team to ensure provision of high quality care to clients across the district. The post holder will work within a District Nursing team utilising their advanced clinical expertise, decision making and problem solving skills to provide skilled nursing care for patients within their own home or clinic setting.
The post holder will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients, for the assessment of holistic needs and the implementation of management plans.
The post holder will have a responsibility to empower team members to develop within the organisation by demonstrating the principles of leadership.
Act as an autonomous practitioner, assessing patients' physical, social, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs to develop a holistic care plan. Working in collaboration with other health and social care professionals and voluntary agencies to provide a high quality service. If legally authorised, prescribe medications from the agreed formularies, based on efficacy, safety and cost.
About us
We provide care and support to over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, in community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (in Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and the best place to receive care.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
At Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, we encourage lifelong learning and there is an expectation that you will support pre-registration students, trainee Nursing Associates and District Nursing students within your role. We have excellent electronic facilities to support your learning and development.
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead and clinically direct the professional team to ensure the implementation and monitoring of standards of care and efficient management of finite resources, supporting and coordinating the team's workload.
* Act as an autonomous practitioner, assessing patients' physical, social, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs to develop a holistic health care plan, working in collaboration with other health and social care professionals, and voluntary agencies to provide a high quality service.
* Using information from laboratory results agree treatment options in discussion with the patients, GP and secondary care Consultant as appropriate.
* Initiate and contribute to strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease working proactively and collaborating with other agencies.
* Maintain record keeping competencies, and patient confidentiality, in accordance with Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct.
* Demonstrate awareness of wider issues affecting patients, e.g., adult protection, anxiety management, alcohol and drug dependencies, together with strategies and support mechanisms to address these.
* Identify issues pertinent to the patient groups served and advocate on their behalf to promote health and well-being.
* Discuss with the patient negotiating with health and social care colleagues, the most appropriate settings in which care can be provided, accessing services as appropriate and giving consideration to other alternatives in the patient's journey.
* Ensure equipment is obtained, used and maintained in accordance with Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust requirements.
* Achieve excellent and effective communication & relationships with all care providers/service users.
* Be aware of the limitations of own competencies and undertake further education and development to enhance these.
* Ensure participation of self and team in clinical supervision ensuring that practice is maintained at a high level and is evaluated utilising a variety of mechanisms.
* Support and promote a clinical environment which fosters a culture of lifelong learning.
* Facilitate effective learning experiences for students through preceptorship, mentorship, clinical supervision and the provision of an educational environment.
* Lead and initiate change within the team within the context of the current political climate, working closely with the modernisation lead.
* Demonstrate awareness and application of clinical governance with particular attention to clinically effective practice, clinical audit, and risk management.
* Responsible for recognising ethical and legal issues which have implications for nursing practice and take the appropriate action.
* Ensure adherence to the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust key performance indicators/targets especially in relation to reducing hospital admission and length of stay.
* Responsible for self and team to be competent in the use of information reporting systems as appropriate.
* General administrative skills - effectively carry out administrative tasks associated with the administrative systems.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
* Has a caring, compassionate and sympathetic nature.
* Ability to work closely with work colleagues and within a team.
* Demonstrates self-motivation, common sense and organisational skills.
* Reliable and punctual.
* Understands the need to work in a multicultural environment and non-discriminatory way.
Experience
* Experience of multi-disciplinary working.
* Demonstrate recent experience of managing change in both processes and patient behaviour.
* Ability to establish good working relationships.
Skills and Abilities
* Extended clinical skills.
* Ability to assess, plan, implement programs of care for patients with complex conditions.
* Demonstrate confidence and ability in written and verbal reporting.
* Interpret guidelines and policies and implement into practice.
* Understanding and experience of inter-agency working and services available within primary and secondary care.
* Evidence of ability to act on own initiative and work autonomously.
* Organisational skills.
Knowledge and Awareness
* Awareness of own limitations.
* Teaching and educating skills and facilitating the learning of others.
* Knowledge of relevant government policy.
* Knowledge of long-term conditions.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse.
* Diploma / Degree in District Nursing / Specialist Community Practitioner.
* Extended and supplementary prescribing qualification or a willingness to undertake.
* Evidence of recent and relevant continuous professional development.
* Willingness to undertake further professional development.
£37,338 to £44,962 a year pro rata per annum for part-time staff.
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