An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Band 6 District Nurse / Case Manager for 6 month secondment in Nantwich and Rural Care Community Teams,. You will be joining a caring, compassionate and hardworking team, who work together to provide the best care for patients in the area. You will also be joining a team who pull together to look after each other, and who work to the value that everyone matters.
In the role as a District Nurse / Case Manager you will work in partnership with our patients and their families to lead in the delivery of person centred, safe and effective care. The successful candidates will require the ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and skills in the management of patients with complex needs, long term conditions and end of life care.
You will have extensive clinical experience and experience of case management, preferably within the community setting and be able to demonstrate recent and ongoing clinical professional development relevant to this post. You will be supported to develop your leadership, organisational and communication skills and how to manage challenging situations in a professional and flexible manner.
Although the posts is based in Nantwich, there will be at times a requirement to work across the footprint of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership. If you share our vision to improve the quality of people’s lives, in their own homes and community, by providing the best integrated care we would love to hear from you.
Travel is an essential part of this role; please demonstrate on your application form how you would meet this requirement.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond.
The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.
We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.
The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.
The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.
At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues
The post holder will be responsible for the management and coordination of patients requiring community nursing input. The District Nurse/ Case Manager will oversee/undertake the assessment of complex nursing care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of
individualised care to patients on a defined district nurse case load.
They will deputise as required in the absence of the team leader to ensure continued efficient and effective service delivery.
They will work as part of the integrated community health care team, working within and across professional and organisational boundaries covering the 24 hour period of service delivery.
They will assist and support the district nurse team leader in providing clinical leadership to the community nursing team and to assist in leading the team in the provision of high quality, evidence based programmes of care.
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Dec 2024