Are you a District Nurse with the Specialist Practice Qualification (SPQ) looking for the opportunity to develop your career in an organisation rated outstanding by the CQC?
Do you want to be part of an innovative team that is remodelling its adult community nursing services to ensure we are driven and focused on achieving clinical excellence in line with the national community direction?
We have an exciting and interesting opportunity for ambitious and enthusiastic Senior District Nursing Practitioners to join our Out of Hospital Division.
We are looking for a District Nurse who holds the District Nurse SPQ, along with the Non-Medical Prescribing qualification to clinically lead our Warwick and Kenilworth Place Based Team collaboratively working within and across professional and organisational boundaries.
The Successful Candidate Will
1. Demonstrate a comprehensive specialist knowledge base and promote excellence in nursing practice within a dynamic healthcare environment.
2. Hold clinical responsibility for the diagnosing, prescribing, planning and evaluation of care, always ensuring provision of high standards of care to patients and their families within the community.
3. Act as an autonomous expert practitioner and role model to the whole team, work alongside the Professional Lead and be responsible for the clinical development and delivery of a safe, effective, well-led, quality driven service.
4. Hold a UK driving licence and have use of a car.
5. Be a Registered Nurse with substantial community experience of managing patients with complex needs and holding advanced clinical assessment skills.
6. Complete the DNSPQ and independent prescriber qualification.
7. Be responsible for the assessment and management of the complex health needs of an identified population and for the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
8. Provide clinical leadership for all patients within the community nursing caseload through proactive management.
9. Collaborate with all members of the multidisciplinary team to establish a whole systems approach to the management of patients accessing healthcare in the area.
10. Support peers and be an effective team member, ensuring that all members of the nursing team are providing the highest standard of evidenced based clinical care.
11. Clinically supervise and be responsible for the development and competencies of all staff within their team, including performance development reviews, clinical supervision and recruitment and selection.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Debbie Tandy
Job title: Locality Manager
Email address: debbie.tandy@swft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07778 782597
Debbie Tandy available Monday to Thursday 8-5pm.
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