Deputy Team Leader District Nursing

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London seeks a qualified District Nurse practitioner to deliver high-quality nursing care primarily in patients' homes. The role includes managing a caseload, supervising junior staff, and collaborating with healthcare professionals. Ideal candidates will hold relevant nursing qualifications, demonstrate excellent communication skills, and be committed to professional development. Salary ranges from £44,485 to £52,521 per annum, including Healthcare Assistant pay.

Qualifications

• Professional development and evidence of recent clinical practice.
• Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Practice.
• Experience with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality service in patient's home or residential care settings.
• Responsibility for nursing care for patients on own caseload.
• Coordinate care with GPs, social workers, and other healthcare professionals.

Skills

Clinical assessment skills

Decision-making skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Caseload management

Empathy

Education

RGN

DN Cert./Dip Limited Prescriber

BSc/ MSc Specialist Nursing Practice (District Nursing)

Tools

Computer Literacy

Job description

We are looking to recruit a qualified specialist District Nurse practitioner with good clinical assessment and decision-making skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to manage a caseload effectively and prioritize tasks.

You will receive monthly supervision with your Team Leader and participate fully in a monthly senior nurses meeting, daily nursing handover, fortnightly Pressure Ulcer meeting and a range of other Band 6 responsibilities. You will play a vital role in ensuring the service operates at the highest level and be able to put into practice and develop your clinical and managerial supervision skills.

Main duties of the job

You will ensure that a high quality service is provided in the patient's home, or residential care settings within available resources. The service is provided over 2 shifts working from 8am till 8 pm.

Responsibility for the nursing care given to the patients on your own case load and for the nursing care provided by the team. The Deputy Team Leader will ensure a case management model of delivery including the effective assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation of care and the discharge of patients from the case load meets the professional and clinical standards/guidelines at all times under the direction of the District Nurse Team Leader.

Supervise and support junior nursing staff and healthcare assistants.

Coordinate care with GPs, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

Job responsibilities

For a more detailed Job Description and Personal Specification please see attached JD & PS.

For contact details please see below.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

• RGN
• DN Cert./Dip Limited Prescriber
• BSc/ MSc Specialist Nursing Practice ( District Nursing)

Personal Skills and Attributes

• Ability to effectively manage the caseload, prioritize and delegate work
• Ability to work within a team of community nurses and ensure PCT policies and procedures are followed
• Ability to organize own workload, work under pressure and forward plan team activities i.e. vaccination programs and training needs
• Ability to communicate information effectively to the Primary Health Care Team and other professionals/agencies
• Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
• Effectively communicate sensitive, complex and sometimes distressing information to patients, carers and staff
• Ability to show empathy and provide reassurance
• Maintain own professional development

Knowledge and Skills

• Evidence of professional development
• Evidence of recent clinical practice
• Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Practice
• Evidence of leadership, change management and motivational skills
• Knowledge and understanding of current health and social care policy, i.e. National Service Frameworks
• Knowledge of evidenced based practice, i.e. NICE guidelines on Pressure Ulcers, Palliative Care and RCN guidelines Leg Ulcer Management
• Knowledge of principles of Clinical Governance
• Computer Literate
• Experience with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children
• Computer Literate
• Knowledge of Health Promotion
• Evidence of competence in clinical skills, i.e. Tissue Viability, Palliative Care and Syringe Drivers, Venepuncture, Cannulation , Catherisation (Male and female) and Supra-pubic Vaccination and Immunisation
• Knowledge of Adults at Risk and Vulnerable Adult Policy

Other

• Car Driver/Owner
• Physical effort: Ability to assess and manage risk in unpredictable working conditions
• Ability to sit/kneel in prolonged positions/cramped positions for a sustained period of time
• Ability to hoist patients/assist transfer of patients and to undertake treatment in close proximity to the patient
• Ability to move and handle patients following risk assessment and within PCT moving and handling guidelines
• Ability to frequently concentrate on the task in hand whilst also assessing and evaluating the whole situation
• Ability to manage unpredictable situations
• Ability to manage competing demands, i.e. staff, patients and organisational needs
• Ability to occasionally manage challenging behaviour i.e. verbal abuse or situations where elder abuse is suspected
• Occasional risk from exposure to blood and body fluids - required to apply Universal Infection Control procedures at all times

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.

£44,485 to £52,521 a yearper annum inc HCA