CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services- CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!
District Nurse Team Leader - Band 7
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a District Nurse Team Leader to join our St Albans and Harpenden Community Nursing Team. The Community Nursing team covers 8am-6pm, 7 days a week.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Team Leader to join the St Albans and Harpenden Team. The post holder will provide leadership working alongside the other Team Leads to support the community nursing team to provide holistic, evidence-based care to the patients on the caseload.
The post holder will be part of the leadership team but must maintain clinical competencies, and approximately 50% of your hours will be clinical. This is to ensure that those patients with complex needs are managed effectively and the team are supported to develop their skills and competencies.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their clinical leadership and operational management skills, taking responsibility for a range of tasks to support the smooth running of the service and the delivery of high quality clinical care. You will be supported by the Locality Manager and will have the opportunity to develop strong peer relationships with colleagues from the wider leadership team for the Planned Care Clinical Services Unit across all four localities in West Herts.
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here:
To provide skilled, effective and evidence based nursing care to patients with complex care needs, in a variety of community settings.
To act as an autonomous nurse taking on-going responsibility for the assessment, planning, evaluation and implementation of nursing care to individuals, groups of patients and their families on the district nursing caseload, delegating activities as appropriate.
To undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical, psychological and social care needs of patients using the Single Assessment Process. To include the needs of carers.
To act as the patient’s advocate and to facilitate the patient’s own choices with regard to nursing care, promoting independence and self-care as appropriate.
To work in a collaborative manner with Primary Care staff, Acute services, Social Services and other agencies to ensure a seamless delivery of care.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Feb 2025