Caseload Holder - Shrewsbury South

NHS; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join the Shrewsbury South Community Nursing Team as a Caseload Holder. This role involves providing urgent and planned care to patients in their homes, ensuring they receive timely and evidence-based care. The team is committed to delivering excellent patient care and offers a supportive environment for professional development.

Qualifications

• Registered with the NMC and current clinical experience in a community setting.
• Willing to work towards Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing.

Responsibilities

• Manage a designated group of patients for timely, evidence-based care.
• Work flexibly within a busy, demanding environment.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Decision Making

Organisational Skills

Leadership

Education

Level 1 Adult Nurse Registration

Diploma/Degree Specialist Practice District Nursing

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join the Shrewsbury South Community Nursing Team in a permanent role as a Caseload Holder. Providing urgent and planned care to patients living within their own homes in the community.

The Shrewsbury South Community Nursing Team is a proactive, supportive, forward thinking team, who constantly strive for the delivery of excellent patient care and modern ways of working.

The multidisciplinary teams provide nursing and therapy services offering an alternative to hospital admission, supporting timely discharge. We enable our patients to realise their potential independence in their most appropriate place of care.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• As a Caseload Holder you will manage a designated group of patients to ensure that they receive timely and evidence based care.
• You will have a skill mixed team to support the delivery of this care.
• You will need to be qualified to RN level, be registered with the NMC and be able to demonstrate current clinical experience in a community setting. We are committed to clinical support, CPD & training.
• There is a need for excellent communication skills and a dedication to multi agency working; you will need to work flexibly within a busy, demanding environment with the ability to develop new skills and working patterns.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• Level 1 Adult Nurse Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Diploma/Degree Specialist Practice District Nursing or alternative post registration qualifications in a relevant discipline or portfolio of significant relevant experience
• Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing (V100 or V150) or willing to work towards this

Experience

• Wide range of nursing experience within a community setting
• Evidence of personal and professional development
• Mentor qualification/equivalent and experience of undertaking clinical assessment

Knowledge and Skills

• Advanced communication, negotiation, decision making and organisational skills
• Ability to manage complex caseload of high risk patients
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Knowledge & understanding of safeguarding practice, policy an guidance including statutory frameworks

Other

• Ability to meet travel requirements of the post

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.