District Nurse

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, Sudbury; In loco; GBP 49.000 - 57.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a District Nurse to lead a community nursing team within a defined locality. The role involves managing complex caseloads, delivering specialist nursing care, and coordinating multi‑disciplinary services to support patient independence.

You will hold a District Nurse qualification, be a registered nurse, and maintain NMC registration with ongoing professional development. The post may involve regional travel and flexible working arrangements.

Competenze

• Registered Nurse Level 1 and District Nurse Qualification are essential.
• NMC Registration and ongoing professional development are required.
• Experience in community/ district nursing is expected or desired.
• Evidence of CPD and teaching qualifications are advantageous.

Mansioni

• Lead and manage the District Nursing Service within the locality.
• Oversee a caseload of patients with complex needs using evidence-based practice.
• Provide high standards of clinical care with advanced assessment and interventions.
• Develop and implement service improvements in partnership with peers.
• Support and mentor junior staff and ensure effective day-to-day operations.
• Coordinate care delivery across organisational and professional boundaries.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Health Coaching

Communication

Caseload Management

Formazione

Registered Nurse Level 1

District Nurse Qualification

NMC Registration

CPD Evidence

Descrizione del lavoro

The Integrated Neighbourhood Teams are looking for newly qualified or experienced District Nurse to lead a team of Community Nurses. The team works alongside Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social workers, and support staff.

This post requires a specialised District Nursing degree, following your Adult Nursing qualification. NHS work experience is essential & Community Nursing experience desirable.

This rewarding job helps maintain a patient's independence and freedom, whilst still being able to access exemplary medical care.

You will be supported with a comprehensive induction and training, as needed, to help you settle in, with the time & opportunity to get to know the people on your caseload, along with development opportunities.

Whilst the location for this post is advertised in Havehill there may be the opportunity for part time, full time, fixed term or substantive roles in our other teams including Sudbury, Newmarket, Bury Town, Bury Rural, Mildenhall, Bury Rural. If you have applied to the Bury Town, Bury Rural of Newmarket advertisement, you need not apply to this post too

Main duties of the job

Please see the full job description attached for more information

Clinical

• Manage a caseload of complex patients with healthcare needs within a designated population, using specialist knowledge to carry out assessments.
• Assess; develop; and implement individualised and specialist nursing care programmes in th
• Evaluate treatment interventions for the caseload and modify healthcare plans. Encourage the patient towards self-care and independence, using a health coaching approach and to provide training, education and advice.
• Work in partnership with other services to and the patient and their family/carer to preventing inappropriate admission to acute hospital settings.
• Support discharges into the
• Effectively manage and oversee the triage of all referrals to th
• Ensure all aspects of care offered by the team meet the agreed National, Professional and Local
• Be responsible for the coordination of the day-to-day planning and delivery of District Nursing services within the team, prioritising clinical needs and delegating where needed to provide an effective
• Be responsible with other senior colleagues to provide the needs of the patient/client group, planning and delivering services.
• Ensure nursing capacity is reported using escalation process a
• Undertakes independent prescribing for own caseload within the limits of the postholders competence and the requirements of the nurse practitioner role.

About us

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the job

• To lead and manage the District Nursing Service in this Locality. To provide specialist clinical and supervisory leadership to junior staff and students within the team.
• To manage a caseload of patients with multiple and complex needs, using evidence-based practise to asses, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions, with the patient at the centre.
• To provide the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs, instigate and provide clinical treatments using evidence-based practice.
• To lead service development of integrated services in the Locality, in partnership with peers and colleagues.
• To use new knowledge in innovative ways and take responsibility for developing and changing practice in complex and sometimes unpredictable environments.
• To support staff to feel confident and competent to move across organisational and professional boundaries.
• To monitor the quality of care provision and identify and promote areas for service development.

Education & Qualification

• Registered Nurse Level 1
• District Nurse Qualification
• NMC Registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Teaching, learning and assessing qualification
• Tissue viability or leg ulcer management training
• Teaching, learning and assessing, Level 7 or PGCE

Experience & Knowledge

• Experience of leading a DN team
• Management of complex patients
• Be responsible for management of complex cases sharing knowledge and skills with locality and community nurses to foster and grow knowledge and skills
• Advanced clinical assessment skills o Experience of history taking and physical examination oExperience of working autonomously oExperience of working with people with long term conditions
• Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities in relation to patients with long-term conditions, Nursing & Integration
• Ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working collaboratively and autonomously
• Management of a community team
• Experience of interview and recruitment skills
• Understanding and knowledge of the Health and Social Care Act

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to work unsupervised and manage people
• Ability to work across organisational and budgetary boundaries within an identified Locality
• Working in integrated team and style
• Provide and role model high standards of care
• Work in partnership with Alliance partners to deliver seamless care to patients and develop service and improvements
• Implementation of change to promote high quality outcomes for the locality
• Excellent communication skills (detail re complex situations)
• Health Coaching skills or willingness to undertake
• Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving li-cence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.
• Cannulation/IV therapy administration
• oCoaching skills

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrate the Trust values

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.

£49,387 to £56,515 a yearPro rata per annum