Main area District Nurse Caseload Holder Grade Band 6
Contract Permanent
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The service operates 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to cover our 8am-8pm 7 days a week model)
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Site Halewood Health Centre
Town Halewood
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 27/03/2025 23:59
Interview date 09/04/2025
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
We are looking for a full-time Band 6 District Nursing Caseload Holder who would relish the challenge of working within primary care and caring for patients with complex needs whilst working towards an integrated healthcare structure. We are looking for candidates who are self-motivated, keen to work in a progressive division and to develop their skills and knowledge in supporting patients who are housebound with long-term conditions and complex needs.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload. They will be responsible for the continuity of care and be the lead person for communication to identified stakeholders. The primary function of the role is to provide proactive, responsive services that address the anticipatory and maintenance care needs of the patients/clients within the defined caseload. This will be done via a holistic assessment of care needs and the provision of clinical care for patients/clients with acute and chronic highly complex needs.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate should be able to work autonomously while demonstrating a team approach, and have strong clinical leadership firmly embedded within their role. We will also require excellent communication skills, clinical decision making skills and a problem-solving approach. The successful candidate will be well supported, developed, and have the opportunity to work in an organisation that demonstrates inclusive and supportive leadership.
As per NMC guidance for ‘Standards for student supervision and assessment,’ applications will be considered for those without mentorship qualification; the candidate must be able to demonstrate the following within their application:
* Interpersonal communication skills, relevant to student learning and assessment
* Conducting objective, evidence based assessments of students
* Providing constructive feedback to facilitate professional development in others
* Knowledge of the assessment process and their role within it
* Understanding of the proficiencies and programme outcomes that the student they assess is aiming to achieve
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Professional
* Teaching/mentorship qualification or equivalent work-based experience
* V150 or V300 Prescriber, if required for the post
Knowledge/Experience
* Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience
* Experience of successful multiagency working
* Demonstrable experience in relevant area of practice or equivalent
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
* Understanding of partnership working
* Understanding of the principles of care management
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
* Management and clinical leadership experience
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
* Self-management and motivation skills
* IT literate
* Able to transport self around the Mersey Care community
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enroll for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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