Covers maternity leave as a District Nurse Team Leader in one of the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust's district nursing teams, on a nine-month secondment. The post leads nursing staff, manages a GP-attached caseload of housebound patients and runs some wound clinics, and drives service change. The team works within an integrated service with specialist nursing, therapy and an evening Twilight team, suiting an experienced or newly specialist-qualified district nurse. Fit depends on holding the DNSPQ and Band 6 community nursing experience.
What the job involves
- Provide management support and professional nurse leadership to the nursing team
- Hold responsibility for all staff in the designated team, giving clinical and managerial support
- Manage a GP-attached clinical caseload of housebound patients and wound clinics
- Lead change management and support the team to embed change
- Work with Senior Nurses to develop, implement and review District Nursing initiatives
- Work within an integrated service alongside specialist, therapy and GP colleagues
- Lead and facilitate audit, setting and monitoring standards of care
- Lead practice development, devising guidelines and procedures
- Assess care needs and develop programmes of care for patients and families
- Case-find housebound and elderly patients in community settings
- Support nurse prescribing and the management of chronic disease
- Provide a visible professional presence and advice to staff, patients and services
What’s required
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or above
- Degree in Public Health, Community Health or Specialist Practitioner
- Mentorship
- DNSPQ qualification
Registration & licences
- NMC registration as RGN
Experience
- Community nursing experience at Band 6 or equivalent or above
- Team and staff management, including PDP and appraisal
- Implementing NMC and NICE guidelines and Essence of Care Benchmarks
- Multi-agency working and audit experience
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- IT skills, presentation and report writing
- Sensitive complaint handling and resolution
- Caseload management, teaching and group facilitation for patients and colleagues
- Planning own workload and delegating with minimal supervision
- Facilitating change and cross-boundary service development
Checks & eligibility
- Ability to drive and access to a car
Nice to have
- Management course, such as Certificate in Management Studies
- Teaching qualification, working towards
- Project management experience
What’s offered
- Great team working and a supportive environment
- Outer London Weighting
- Training and career development opportunities
- Research and audit opportunities to support innovative practice
- Assigned mentor and induction period
- Open to flexible working patterns
- Personalised clinical and management supervision
- DNTL developmental days
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
