Overview
The Senior District Nurse / Senior Community Nurse/ Caseload Manager (Band 6) plays a key leadership and clinical role within the community nursing team, providing expert care to a defined population while supporting staff development and service improvement. The post holder is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of complex care, focusing on preventing hospital admissions, promoting independence, and managing long-term conditions and end-of-life care.
Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, the role ensures the delivery of safe, evidence-based, and person-centred care within patients’ homes and community settings. The Senior Nurse also has responsibility for caseload management, clinical supervision, and supporting the wellbeing and performance of team members.
As a visible and proactive clinical leader, the post holder will contribute to service development, quality improvement, and the education of staff and students, ensuring that care delivery meets national and local standards.
Responsibilities
* Assess and manage the health needs of an identified population and caseload, focusing on public health, preventative care, and admission avoidance.
* Support the team in the implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within a range of target groups including preventative deterioration of complex health, health inequalities, social prescribing and signposting, management of comorbidities and supporting the prevention of an urgent care need.
* Clinically supervise and support regulated and unregulated team members with career development, clinical capabilities and behaviours, education and supervision.
* Assist the Professional Lead with recruitment and retention, support the wellbeing of the team and improve quality outcomes and budget management as well as implementing service improvement schemes and supporting in pathway development.
Requirements / Qualifications
* Experience in district nursing or senior community nursing and caseload management.
* Ability to provide clinical supervision and leadership within a community/nurse setting.
* Understanding of safeguarding, clinical governance, and evidence-based practice.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values: we are trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work.
As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion We Encourage All Applicants To Complete a Short Survey. This Can Be Accessed Via The Link Below
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Sherriff Job title: Operational Team leader Email address: helen.sherriff@swft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07796564683
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