Job Overview
Alfred Barrow District Nurses have an exciting opportunity to recruit a permanent Band 6 District Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse
The successful candidate will ideally have at least one year's experience in Community Nursing and have completed or working towards relevant post registration qualification.
You will be working within the Furness district as part of a dynamic and supportive team who continuously strive to deliver gold standard patient care within our community.
As a team, we also give equal importance to staff health and wellbeing, Utilising your specialist skills and knowledge, you will demonstrate genuine passion and enthusiasm for holistic patient- centred care delivery whilst facilitating and undertaking personal and professional development, which is supported by our team and Community Care Group.
Posts available: 30 hours
We encourage you to make contact with our Team Leader, Phil Hunter to discuss this post or to arrange an informal visit. Tel
Main duties of the job
This exciting opportunity is for a dedicated and motivated community nurse to develop their skills and knowledge in District Nursing, working across the Lancaster area and other community Nursing Teams as part of the Integrated Care Community (ICC's), covering a 24 hour period including evenings, nights, weekends and bank holidays, 7 days a week.
You may also be expected to work across a variety of DN teams in the Community Care Group to maintain service delivery.
Community Nurses work closely with all health and social care disciplinaries to prevent hospital admission, facilitate hospital discharge and promote independence through reablement and management of long term conditions. The role requires excellent communication skills as you will undertake complex nursing assessments and develop and deliver programmes of care with patients, families and carers.
You will need a full UK divers licence and access to a vehicle in order to fulfil this role.
Working for our organisation
We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
Our community services for adults are provided in people's homes, community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals and our main hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, advice and support.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website
Person specification
Qualifications And Experience
Essential criteria
* 1st level registered nurse
* Teaching qualification eg City & Guilds or Professional Trainers Cert or equivalent
* Demonstrable basic and advanced clinical skills, e.g. physical assessment skills, venepuncture, BLS, wound care
* Recent management/leadership experience relevant clinical speciality
* Post registration qualification in relevant area that has enhanced clinical practice or working towards or equivalent
* Supervision and Assessment of Students qualification or equivalent
* Ability to work as part of the multidisciplinary clinical team
* Recent management/leadership experience relevant to clinical speciality
* Ability to manage the care of a wide variety of patient conditions
* Demonstrate ability to make clinical decisions and to develop others in this area
* Understanding of setting and monitoring of standards
* Evidence of clinical competence and credibility in clinical speciality
* Evidence of teaching, mentoring and developing staff
* Supervision and Assessment of Students qualification or equivalent
Desirable criteria
* Post registration management/leadership qualification or willingness to undertake
* Community specialist practitioner qualification or a willingness to undertake
* Modules of study in leg ulcer, tissue viability, V150, palliative care or willingness to undertake