District Nurse/Senior Community Nurse Band 6

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas. The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for District Nurses to join our Integrated Teams in Barking and Dagenham. The successful candidates will be expected to support their team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust’s Values in their day to day work. These are the 5P’s:

• Putting people first
• Being progressive, innovative and continually improve
• Being professional and honest
• Promoting what is possible – independence, opportunity and choice

The successful candidate will be a Registered Nurse (RN12-NMC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable. The successful candidates will support their peers and team leader and will be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will supervise pre-registration students and have a commitment to collaborative working actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies.

Main duties of the job:

The post holders will lead and manage a Community Nursing Team, geographically aligned to GP practices and be responsible for the management of a caseload ensuring the provision of a high standard of nursing care to patients and their families in the community. They will work as part of the integrated primary/community health care team, working within and across professional and organisational boundaries. Liaising with GPs, other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies, they will deliver individualised care to patients. The district nurse works without direct supervision and provides leadership to the community nursing team.

Applications are welcome from nurses currently undertaking the Band 6 Development Program.

Working for our organisation:

NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities: Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on the vacancy.

Person specification:

• Current NMC Registration
• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Nurse/Prescriber/Non-Medical Prescriber
• Evidence of professional up-dating
• Relevant post registration course and experience e.g. Palliative Care, Diabetes and Tissue Viability
• Has experience of team working that will assist the individual to manage an effective team
• Interagency and collaborative working
• Evidence of teaching and assessing individuals
• Providing complex packages of care
• 3 years post registration experience
• Ability to manage staff conflict and difficult situations
• Experience of ensuring practice is based on sound evidence and clinical audit

Knowledge:

• An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities
• Awareness of the content and application in practice of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• A good range of clinical skills, including assessment
• Understand the importance of chronic disease management and rehabilitation in the community

Skills:

• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
• Good organisation skills and ability to prioritise and work in a self-directed way

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.

Equal opportunities employer: We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic. We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.