An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a development Band 6 Specialist Practitioner in District Nursing to join our Locality Teams in Gateshead. Locality Teams pride themselves on providing a high-quality service to patients in Gateshead.
Community Nursing is a specialist area of care with great opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge. We offer an extensive induction and encourage all staff to complete specialised training and career development. We pride ourselves on providing a supportive working environment with daily clinical handover meetings and regular clinical supervision.
Main duties of the job
The delivery of high standards of clinical practice that hold patients and their families at the centre to ensure that they receive safe, quality care that gives them a good experience.
* To identify and assess the core needs of patients and carers, being responsible for delivery of an identified package of care.
* To assume 24-hour responsibility for a designated case-load.
* To maintain standards of care through evaluating and implementing evidence-based practice.
* To lead and develop staff and the service provided.
* To delegate work appropriately according to skill mix ensuring maintenance of safety within the community.
* To support the locality Team Leader in achieving their objectives.
We are looking for a dynamic individual who has drive and motivation and is looking for a new challenge. You must be a car owner/driver.
Job responsibilities
* Management and Leadership of a team of staff within community nursing services with accountability and responsibility for the safe delivery of all aspects of patient care within service portfolio.
* Deliver hands-on clinical care to a designated case load of patients within Gateshead as a caseload holder for a defined population of patients.
* Support the locality team leader in continuous service improvements and support the delivery of transformational projects within areas of accountability.
* Operational responsibility to lead and contribute to the service delivery to CIP/CQUIN indicators and other performance and quality indicators within the locality.
* To lead and motivate and support the team approach to delivering new innovative models of care for patients across pathways and across providers as defined by the community Services Business Unit and Locality Team leader.
* Ensure systems and processes are in place to maintain patient safety in collaboration with the Clinical Operations Managers, Quality and Risk Managers and Clinical Lead.
* Ensure the experience of our patients and their families is understood within all community teams.
* Contribute to workforce development in line with team profile and national nursing and AHP picture.
* Facilitate the development of clinical expertise and advances in nursing and AHP practice within the team in collaboration with the locality team lead, Clinical Operation manager and Clinical Lead.
* To ensure the development and maintenance of a learning environment within the multi-disciplinary team that is appropriate for the development needs of all members.
* To ensure all new staff undertakes an induction process adhering to and following standards, competencies and on-going education.
* To establish an effective network of communication, which encourages a two-way dialogue and ensures that all members of the team are fully informed of community/team/Business Unit and Trust developments.
* To facilitate an environment where health promotion and informed patient choice is encouraged and developed to its maximum potential, within the available resources.
* To evaluate clinical practice within the area by monitoring standards of care and ensuring that nursing practice is audited and research based, and supports the clinical governance framework.
* To lead and facilitate an integrated approach to quality issues so that every member of the team contributes and is aware of their responsibility in this area.
* To facilitate and ensure a safe, efficient and effective pathway for patients using the service.
* To develop and participate in teaching packages for all staff.
Through effective role modelling develop positive behavior, encourage an open and non-threatening environment that rewards decision making and creativity, facilitates change and the implementation of new ideas, encourages the reporting of patient safety incidents and uses reflection to learn from as a result, identifies risk and develops mitigation to minimise it.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registered
* DN Cert Specialist RN
* Teaching Qualification
* Prescribing Qualification
* Masters
Experience
* Undertake research and audit
* Effective verbal and written communication
* NHS experience
* Previous locality working
Attributes and Knowledge
* Portfolio of CPD
* IT Knowledge
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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