District Nurse/Case Manager

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust; Horncastle; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The District Nurse/Case Manager role at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust delivers care across a 7-day service from 8:00 to 18:30, with shift work involved. This fixed-term post (1 year) offers development opportunities to obtain competencies as a Case Manager.

You will manage a caseload, coordinate care delivery, and lead the community nursing team while upholding our trust values to improve patient experience.

Qualifications

• Must hold the Community Specialist Practitioner qualification.
• Experience managing a caseload of patients and leading a team to deliver high-quality patient care.
• Opportunity for a development role as a Case Manager on a fixed-term basis of 1 year to obtain competencies.

Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload of patients with varying health needs and coordinate care delivery.
• Lead the community nursing team and model trust values in challenging times.
• Ensure patient experience remains positive and services are transformed to improve quality of care.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Clinical skills

Education

Community Specialist Practitioner qualification

Job description

Applicants should hold the Community Specialist Practitioner qualification and have experience of managing a caseload of patients and leading a team of staff in delivering excellent patient care. There is an opportunity for this post to be a development role for a Case Manager on a fixed term basis of 1 year to allow for competencies to be obtained. This is a Fixed term post for 1 year to cover case managers post while they are training.

The service delivers care to patients in a variety of community settings across a 7 day service covering the hours of 8:00- 18:30 (shift work involved).

The District Nurse/Case Manager will hold a caseload of patients with varying health needs, coordinating care delivery. They will need to have extensive communication, interpersonal and clinical skills in order to be successful.

The District Nurse/Case Manager is not only integral to leading on patient care but leading the community nursing team through challenging times and the transformation of services, role modelling excellent behaviours which are in line with our trust values. The District Nurse/Case Manager is essential to improving the quality of care that we deliver and in ensuring that the patient has a positive experience.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagementin the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev

As this is a community post, you must be able to travel to patients homes and clinic settings. Due to the rurality of Lincolnshire some areas are not well covered by public transport therefore having access to transport is essential.