DN Locality Service Lead

The Locality Service Lead (District Nursing) will be responsible for the operational and clinical leadership of the district nursing service within an Enfield geographical area to be determined and lead your teams to meet local and national performance targets as well as quality outcomes for the patient population. The post holder will be required to work at least 20% of their time in a clinical capacity. You will manage teams of community nurses within a geographical area, including recruitment and appraisal in conjunction with Band 7 staff as appropriate.

The post holder will provide strong professional, clinical, operational leadership and management to support the further development of District Nursing and the integration of adult community nursing teams within the service. As such, the post holder has an operational management and clinical leadership role in facilitating high-quality care and the professional development of the nursing staff. The post holder will lead new ways of working and developing nurse-led services; they will be key in ensuring that based working is sustainable and well supported; ensuring that the nurses work across community nursing and with others within primary, secondary, and social care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the service managers around service redesign and developing new ways of working.
• Ensure resources (staff and financial) are prioritized appropriately and used effectively.
• Facilitate improvements in addressing health inequalities by utilizing a variety of initiatives.
• Contribute to the development of evidence-based clinical standards, policies, and guidelines.
• Contribute to the strategic implementation of National Service Frameworks.
• Able to make decisions based on specialist clinical advice from other practitioners and managers.
• Support and facilitate multidisciplinary audits, development of care pathways and protocols, and other quality improvement processes.
• Support the implementation of quality markers, ensuring that these are used to benchmark clinical care and raise standards.
• Work in collaboration with GP practices and other colleagues to lead service re-design initiatives to support commissioning requirements.

North Mid is part of the North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches. We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Naveen Sharma Job title: Clinical Service Manager (ECS) Email address: Telephone number: 02087023696