The Newmarket Integrated Neighbourhood Team is looking for a part time District Nurse to work alongside our established team of one other District Nurse and several Community Nurses, OTs and Physiotherapists with support staff.
When you join our team, you will be at the front line of healthcare, delivering medical care to the patients on our caseloads in their own homes, with excellent support from an Integrated Community Team which includes Adult Social Services staff.
This post requires a specialised District Nursing degree, following your Adult Nursing qualification. NHS work experience is essential & Community Nursing experience desirable.
This rewarding job helps maintain a patients independence and freedom, whilst still being able to access exemplary medical care.
We attend the housebound patients of the GP Practices in Newmarket - some over the borders into Norfolk & Cambridgeshire. We also care for virtual ward patients under the care of the West Suffolk NHS Trust acute hospital, who reside at home for their care and treatment.
You will join a small, friendly, and well-led integrated community healthcare team, where we work closely with the MDT (Social Workers, GPs and Allied Health Professionals).
Main duties of the job
* Lead and manage the District Nursing Service in the locality.
* Provide specialist clinical and supervisory leadership to junior staff and students within the team.
* Manage a caseload of patients with multiple and complex needs, using evidence‑based practice to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, with the patient at the centre.
* Provide the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs and provide clinical treatments.
* Lead service development of integrated services in partnership with peers and colleagues.
* Use new knowledge in innovative ways and take responsibility for developing and changing practice in complex and sometimes unpredictable environments.
* Support staff confidence and competence to move across organisational and professional boundaries.
* Monitor quality of care provision and identify and promote areas for service development.
* Build strong relationships with partner organisations to ensure an effective flow of patient information.
Education & Qualification
* Registered Nurse Level 1.
* District Nurse Qualification.
* Current NMC registration.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Teaching, learning and assessing qualification.
* Tissue viability or leg ulcer management training.
* Teaching, learning and assessing, Level 7 or PGCE.
Experience & Knowledge
* Experience of leading a DN team.
* Management of complex patients.
* Ability to manage complex cases and share knowledge with local and community nurses.
* Advanced clinical assessment skills, history taking and physical examination.
* Experience of working autonomously.
* Experience of working with people with long term conditions.
* Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities in relation to patients with long‑term conditions, nursing and integration.
* Ability to direct and co‑ordinate programmes of care working collaboratively and autonomously.
* Management of a community team.
* Experience of interview and recruitment skills.
* Understanding and knowledge of the Health and Social Care Act.
Skills & Abilities
* Work unsupervised.
* Manage people.
* Work across organisational and budgetary boundaries within a locality.
* Work in an integrated team and style.
* Provide and role model high standards of care.
* Work in partnership with Alliance partners to deliver seamless care to patients and develop service.
* Work within the Alliance to identify and drive service developments and improvements.
* Implement change to promote high quality outcomes for the locality.
* Travel to rural locations to carry out post.
* Self‑manage and prioritise.
* Excellent communication skills (detail re complex situations).
* Health coaching skills or willingness to undertake.
* Coaching skills.
* Cannulation/IV therapy administration.
Personal Qualities
* Demonstrate the Trust values.
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Compensation
£49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata, per annum.
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