Lead District Nurse – Community Palliative Care & Mentoring

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust; Walsall; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust seeks a confident Clinical Sister or Charge Nurse to lead an integrated community nursing team delivering care to adults at home with complex health needs in the UK.

You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care, provide evidence-based palliative and end-of-life care, mentor staff and support the Locality Lead in developing the Community Nursing Service. The role demands clinical leadership and strong partnership working.

Qualifications

• Degree in Specialist Practice (District Nursing).
• Mentorship / teaching and assessing qualification.
• Nurse prescriber.

Responsibilities

• To support the community nursing service in providing high quality individualised end of life care to patients and their carers at home; in order to improve quality of life and provide a safe alternative to inpatient care, where this is appropriate and in accordance with preferred place of care.
• To develop communication skills to ensure support for patients and families in highly emotional and distressing circumstances, when discussing sensitive and potentially distressing information.
• Contribute to service development and co-ordinate their implementation.
• Be responsible for the supervision of qualified/unqualified staff. Identify training needs and facilitate continued professional development through the PDR / 1:1 process.
• Ensure effective learning experiences and opportunities to achieve learning outcomes for students through mentorship, and for registered practitioners through preceptorship, clinical supervision and the provision of learning opportunity

Skills

Leadership

Team dynamics

Communication skills

IT skills

Clinical decision making

Data protection

Delegation

Health education

Education

Degree in Specialist Practice (District Nursing)

Mentorship / teaching and assessing qualification

Nurse prescriber

Job description

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust seeks a confident Clinical Sister or Charge Nurse to lead an integrated community nursing team delivering care to adults at home with complex health needs in the UK.

You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care, provide evidence-based palliative and end-of-life care, mentor staff and support the Locality Lead in developing the Community Nursing Service. The role demands clinical leadership and strong partnership working.