District Nurse Team Lead

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a District Nurse Manager to lead a nursing team at Plumstead Health Centre. The role involves providing high-quality care in various settings, including home visits and collaboration with partner agencies. Applicants should have significant experience in a senior nursing role and possess strong clinical assessment and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years managing a District Nursing Team at Band 6 level.
• Proven Senior Nurse clinical experience in acute or community setting.
• Extensive experience in assessing and providing care to complex conditions.

Responsibilities

• Lead team in managing care for defined caseload.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care.
• Participate in training patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Leadership in team development

Clinical assessment skills

Experience managing District Nurse caseload

Education

BSc Specialist Community Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing

Accredited Non-Medical Prescribing Programme

Job description

Job summary: Hours of Work : 37.5 hours per week Including One weekend every four weeks.

This role combines management responsibility for the Greenwich District Nursing Team Based at Plumstead Health Centre. The post holder will lead a team of nurses and support staff with the responsibility of managing the care for a defined caseload.

Community Nurses work as part of a team delivering high quality evidence-based nursing care to clients within their own home, residential homes and clinical environments. As part of a District Nursing team you will have a role placing emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation as well as curative and palliative care.

The post holder will be able to work autonomously, understanding high level assessment to make a diagnosis, initiate medical and/or nursing treatments, prescribe medications, refer appropriately and lead the co-ordination of care with partner agencies and key stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students and other health care professionals.

You will be committed to the development of the team through effective leadership and be given the opportunity to develop your own clinical skills through the delivery of a wide range of evidence-based care and an active personal development plan. You must possess excellent communication, assessment and care planning skills and have an excellent knowledge of clinical standards. At least a year of experience of managing a District Nurse team caseload is essential to the role.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• BSc Specialist Community Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing
• Evidence of managing a District Nursing Team at Band 6 level for minimum of 2 years
• Accredited Non-Medical Prescribing Programme

Experience

• Proven Senior Nurse clinical experience at band 6 or equivalent in an acute or community setting
• Extensive experience of assessing and providing care to people with complex and long term conditions

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written in order to manage difficult situations/conflict with positive outcomes
• Proactively seeks opportunities for service improvement and solution findings
• Commitment to own professional development and willingness to develop new clinical skills/competencies

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.