Job summary
DistrictNurse Service Lead-Permanent Hours
An exciting opportunity has become available for a band 8A District Nursing Service Lead Post.
This post for theDistrictNurseServiceLeadership Team is an exciting opportunity for an individual to work alongside the existingDistrictNurseServiceLead to lead, manage and develop theCommunity District Nurse service.
We are seeking a highly motivated District Nurse with the aptitude, motivation, and leadership skills, to drive local and National changes and integration within community nursing. You will lead DN community nursing teams, working closely with the acute hospital, GPs, and Practice Nurses to ensure high quality care for the local population to ensure effective, efficient, safe, and high-quality nursing care for patients and carers.
Community Services are currently undergoing significant change in the delivery of community services to continuously improve patient care and outcomes, meet workforce demands, prevent inappropriate hospital admissions, and facilitate early discharge. The successful candidate will work with their Nursing Team leads to maintain capacity across community services to help achieve this. The post holder will work closely with the Community Nursing Services Lead to ensure the service is working in line with the service level agreements, Performance is achieved in terms of, KPIs, Finance, HR, Risk and Governance.
The post holder will have extensive experience and knowledge in managing clinical governance including incidents, risk registers and audits.
We value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality through our recruitment, we would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level.
Please contact Community Nursing Services Lead Gurdees Watson for further information.
Main duties of the job
The post holder willleadtheDistrictNursing Teams, being the first point of contact both from an internal and external perspective. You will be responsible for a wide range of general and operational management issues aimed at managing health economy flow and supporting "home first". This will be achieved through close liaison with General Practice, CommunityLeadfor AHP and NursingServices,NursePractitioners, Allied Health Professionals, ICTs, etc.
The post-holder will have the following key objectives:
1. ToleadtheDistrictNursingServiceand its clinical capacity to maintain flow.
2. To support the achievement of corporate targets.
3. To play a key role in the economy escalation processes.
4. To provide effective accountableleadership, clinical and operational support.
5. Ensure effectiveserviceprovision in line with operational requirements.
About us
At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.
We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.
We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
6. First level Registered Nurse
7. District Nursing Specialist Practitioner
8. Masters level education or equivalent knowledge / experience
9. Evidence of formal Leadership / Managerial Training and Development
10. Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of clinical governance
11. Awareness of national changes in Health Policy and NHS reforms
Desirable
12. Evidence of commitment to life-long academic learning
Knowledge and Training
Essential
13. Evidence of leadership / management qualities
14. Demonstrates up to date evidence based clinical trends in chronic disease management
15. Computer literate - ability to use software programmes designed to maximise the contribution to the post
16. Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in primary care / disease management
Desirable
17. Specialist knowledge and skills relating to complex chronic disease
18. Up to date knowledge of current Government and Local imperatives and how these translate into local practice
Planning & Organisational Skills
Essential
19. Motivated - able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service
20. Forward thinking - to identify opportunities for improvement in service development
21. Flexible - to meet the demands of the service
Experience
Essential
22. Ability to prioritise workload effectively
23. Manage staff effectively achieving optimum team satisfaction and team development
24. Experience in managing significant service or organisation change, working effectively in multi-professional teams
25. Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
26. Evidence of leadership / management qualities
27. Understanding and experience of capacity management
28. Communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation
29. Ability to exercise independent judgement
30. Ability to analyse data and present information to various audiences
Desirable
31. Ability to prescribe as an extended / supplementary prescriber
Communication & Relationship Skills
Essential
32. Can work on own initiative
33. Can work as part of a team
34. Flexible approach to work
Physical Skills
Essential
35. Must be able to commute to meet the demands of the role