Job overview
Band 6 - Acting Deputy Team Lead
We are looking for an experienced B5 community nurse who wants to consolidate their nursing knowledge and skills as an acting B6 District Nurse pending recruitment of a qualified specialist District Nurse.You will be supported by a wide number of healthcare professionals, including DN and therapy clinical leads, a lead nurse, pressure ulcer improvement facilitators, palliative nurses, a referral and assessment team, a rapid response team, care navigators and telehealth practitioners.
You will receive monthly supervision with your Team Leader and participate fully in a monthly senior nurses meeting, daily nursing handover, fortnightly Pressure Ulcer meeting and a range of other B6 responsibilities. You will play a vital role in ensuring the service operates at the highest level and be able to put into practice and develop your clinical and managerial supervision skills.
Main duties of the job
To have responsibility for the nursing care given to the patients on your own case load and for the nursing care provided by the team. The acting Deputy Team Leader will ensure a case management model of delivery including the effective assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation of care and the discharge of patients from the case load meets the professional and clinical standards/guidelines at all times under the direction of the District Nurse Team Leader.
You will ensure that a high quality service is provided in the patient’s home, clinics or residential care settings within available resources. The service is provided over 2 shifts working from 8am till 8 pm.
You will be responsible within your team for the liaison and effective and cooperative working arrangements with General Practitioners and other agencies.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed Job Description and Personal Specification please see attached JD & PS.
For contact details please see below.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
1. RGN
2. DN Cert./Dip Limited Prescriber
Desirable criteria
3. BSc/ MSc Specialist Nursing Practice ( District Nursing)
4. Independent Nurse Prescriber
Personal Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
5. Ability to effectively manage the caseload, prioritize and delegate work
6. Ability to work within a team of community nurses and ensure PCT policies and procedures are followed
7. Ability to organize own workload, work under pressure and forward plan team activities i.e. vaccination programs and training needs
8. Ability to communicate information effectively to the Primary Health Care Team and other professionals/agencies
9. Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
10. Effectively communicate sensitive, complex and sometimes distressing information to patients, carers and staff
11. Ability to show empathy and provide reassurance
12. Maintain own professional development
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
13. Evidence of professional development
14. Evidence of recent clinical practice
15. Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Practice
16. ENB Teaching and Assessing Course 998 (or similar)
17. Evidence of leadership, change management and motivational skills
18. Knowledge and understanding of current health and social care policy, i.e. National Service Frameworks
19. Knowledge of evidenced based practice, i.e. NICE guidelines on Pressure Ulcers, Palliative Care and RCN guidelines Leg Ulcer Management
20. Knowledge of principles of Clinical Governance
21. Computer Literate
Desirable criteria
22. NVQ Assessor (D32/33)
23. Continence Course
24. Confidence in Presentations
25. Computer Literate i.e. ECDL
26. Knowledge of Health Promotion techniques
27. Evidence of competence in clinical skills, i.e. Tissue Viability, Palliative Care and Syringe Drivers, Venepuncture, Cannulation, Catherisation (Male and female) and Supra-pubic Vaccination and Immunisation
28. Knowledge of Public Health Agenda
29. Knowledge of Adults at Risk and Vulnerable Adult Policy
30. EDCL certificate
Other
Essential criteria
31. Car Driver/Owner
32. Physical effort: Ability to assess and manage risk in unpredictable working conditions
33. Ability to sit/kneel in prolonged positions/cramped positions for a sustained period of time
34. Ability to hoist patients/assist transfer of patients and to undertake treatment in close proximity to the patient
35. Ability to move and handle patients following risk assessment and within PCT moving and handling guidelines
36. Ability to frequently concentrate on the task in hand whilst also assessing and evaluating the whole situation
37. Ability to manage unpredictable situations
38. Ability to manage competing demands, i.e. staff, patients and organisational needs
39. Ability to occasionally manage challenging behaviour i.e. verbal abuse or situations where elder abuse is suspected
40. Occasional risk from exposure to blood and body fluids – required to apply Universal Infection Control procedures at all times