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District Nurse / Case Load Manager

The closing date is 10 October 2025

Band 6 District Nurse/Case Manager - Placed Based Team 4: Bedworth.

Fixed term 12 month posts at Atherstone & Bedworth

Are you looking for a change of scenery?

Would you like to work out in the fresh air and nurse in different environments every day?

If so this is the job for you.

We have an exciting opportunity for Band 6 Registered Nurse to join our dynamic, forward thinking Community Nursing Team.

Our aim is to provide a high standard of evidence based holistic care to housebound patients within their own homes so as to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.

The successful candidate will have a general knowledge of current best practice in Community Nursing, already holding a District Nurse degree. Ideally would have health assessment or has a confirmed start date to the Programme. Be an effective leader with excellent communication skills and have the ability to manage a caseload of patients.

We will provide you with a structured induction and training period to ensure you have the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge. We encourage staff and support continuing professional development progression.

The Service operates seven days a week and flexible working is required.

The requirements are that you should hold a valid UK driving license and be willing to travel across the North Warwickshire and surrounding areas. A mileage allowance is available.

• The District Nurse is responsible for the assessment and management of the health needs of an identified population and for the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within a range of target groups including end of life care, complex health needs and patients identified as being at risk of hospital admission.
• The District Nurse will clinically supervise and provide support to a team of staff - being responsible for the development and competencies of staff within their team. To include performance development reviews, clinical supervision and recruitment and selection.

Additional sections of responsibilities are carried out in line with local policy and governance frameworks to ensure an equitable evidence-based service.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Main Functions

• Named responsibility and professional accountability for the management of a defined caseload including the delegation of tasks to other members of the team.
• The post holder will have continuing responsibility for visible leadership which ensures an equitable evidence-based service, which is underpinned by the pillars of clinical governance.
• Prescribe using the Nurse formulary and ensure that nurse prescribing is undertaken in a safe, cost effective manner.
• Develop a caseload profile, identifying those groups with specific health needs and implement and evaluate programmes of care to target groups taking a case management approach.
• Act in accordance with current local Warwickshire Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Trust guidelines/policy to protect vulnerable adults.
• Act within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Contribute towards ensuring the trust objectives are implemented and to support the Professional Lead in influencing change.
• Provide appropriate nursing care to patients on the defined caseloads.
• Provide specialist advice appropriate to health and social care to patients, carers, relatives and other agencies.
• Participate in the development, training and mentorship of pre-registration students/medical students and staff as required including induction and preceptorship programmes.
• To provide assistance with the resolution of complaints within the clinical speciality, or sphere of responsibility.
• To attend meetings and deputise for the Professional Lead as required and ensure that information is disseminated within the nursing team.
• Assist with the delivery of a comprehensive induction programme for new staff members.

• Demonstrate excellent communication and negotiation skills in situations which may be complex, highly sensitive and emotive. All communication will be underpinned by the principles of data protection, dignity and confidentiality.
• Adopt and promote the highest level of verbal, non-verbal, written and electronic communication skills. Be open and honest, act with integrity and uphold the reputation of the profession as directed by the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC, 2015).
• Take responsibility for initiating and/or engaging in open discussion with statutory and voluntary agencies and all members of the wider multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
• Ensure effective communication to support continuity of care on transfer between hospital, community, residential and nursing care settings and vice versa.

• Promotes and maintains accurate record keeping and conforms to NMC policy and data protection legislation.
• Uses resources effectively and being aware of budgetary constraints including ordering of equipment.
• Will participate in research and development projects within the clinical field, embracing opportunities to develop knowledge by undertaking further study whilst sharing initiatives with others.
• Responsible for communicating and receiving sensitive, complex, and sometimes contentious information, dealing effectively with staff, relatives, and carers whilst ensuring confidentiality. Will use developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating skills, where agreement and cooperation is required. There may be barriers to understanding.
• Supporting the Professional Lead and Quality Matron in the development of audit systems within SWFT to ensure continuing evaluation of clinical practice by facilitating clinical audit programmes and research in line with clinical governance priorities.

• Supervise and direct work undertaken by other members of the skill mix team on a daily basis.
• Direct responsibility for the day to day supervision and performance of the district nursing team.
• To input statistical information by electronically recording daily activity on EMIS, ensuring each contact/activity is recorded in real time.
• Responsible for ensuring that staff are supported in accessing Clinical Supervision.

• Take responsibility for the complex and holistic assessment or delegation of planning, implementation and evaluation of care on an individual basis, utilising recognised models and tools, e.g. end of life care and long term conditions.
• As a District Nurse there will be a need for a varied clinical skill set, including, but not limited to:
• End of Life Care - Syringe Drivers and symptom control
• Intravenous Therapy
• Management of Plural Drains
• Wound Care Including complex e.g. Vacuum assisted therapy
• Leg Ulcers Including compressions therapy
• Patient education and training of self-management techniques
• Long Term Condition Management Heart Failure, Diabetes, Respiratory, Frailty, Dementia
• Social prescribing
• Named responsibility for the management of a defined caseload.
• Acts as patients advocate where appropriate.
• Be proactive in offering health promotion and participate in health promotion activities for a defined caseload.
• Utilise health needs assessment for the local population.
• The District Nurse will recognise triggers of deterioration/increased need of patients and initiate the Continuing Healthcare/NHS Funded Nursing Care assessment process.
• To work with the Professional Lead to ensure performance indicators are achieved, avoiding patient harms and supporting preferred place of care.
• Ensuring excellent working relationships and communication links with all stakeholders including acute hospital staff, Local Authorities, Social Care teams and voluntary services as appropriate for patient care.

• To take a lead on quality initiatives, including but not limited to Community care Indicators, Hand Hygiene, Saving Lives and iWGC.
• Understanding of national policy and guidance with the ability to interpret and implement at service level.
• Participate in and contribute to service redesign and policy development to benefit patient care.
• Source patients/relatives/carers views and feedback on their experience of SWFT OOHCC services in order to influence and inform future service provision.
• To contribute to the implementation and audit of policies, guidelines and procedures ensuring practice is evidence-based and patient centred.
• Will undertake Personal Development Reviews (PDR) and relevant development plans for members of the nursing team. Assist in the identification of individual training requirements in line with NMC Revalidation and Pay Progression requirements.

• To identify workforce planning issues and actively participate in the recruitment, selection and retention of clinical staff.
• Ensure team members are up to date with mandatory and statutory training.
• Responsible for Performance Development Reviews for staff within the team.
• Contributing to the promotion of team morale and management of conflict within the team by adopting an open and honest approach in order to seek resolve.

• Interpret national guidance on NMC guidelines.
• Promote and participate in clinical supervision.
• Maintain clinical and professional competencies in accordance with relevant statutory legislation and guidance relevant to health professionals and their services.

• Ensure standards, protocols and policies are evidence based and applied to practice.
• Keep abreast of current clinical issues thus always promoting best practice.
• Critique and use research to inform practice.
• Complete monthly clinical audits (Community Care Indicators) and support the Professional Lead with Infection Prevention audits on a monthly basis.

• The post holder will require independent transport for work across the Trust and to other agencies.
• Be prepared for travel in varying weather conditions and environments.
• The Trust endorses a smoke-free policy for its premises.

• Daily manual handling of people and equipment; may involve confined spaces in patients' homes.
• Occasional lone working as per Trust policies.
• Possible contact with bodily fluids.

• Registered Nurse (1st Level)
• First level degree in related subject
• Evidence of Continuous professional Development relevant to the field of practice
• Evidence of leadership or management training
• Practice Educator and Assessor Preparation (PEAP) or equivalent qualification
• District Nursing Specialist Practitioner Qualification or working towards it
• Coaching CPD

• Significant Post registration community experience
• Post registration experience of caseload management
• Evidence of Personalised Care planning and complex patient management
• Ability to take appropriate action to assess and manage risk
• Experience of empowering a positive learning culture for interdisciplinary and interagency teams
• Proven experience of working autonomously in challenging situations
• Experience in managing complaints
• Experience in service improvement

• Understanding of clinical governance, audit, and risk management.
• Advanced clinical decision-making skills to support patient centred care
• Advanced clinical skills to include a variety of patient conditions and comorbidities
• In-depth understanding of community nursing and long-term condition management
• Must have excellent prioritisation and time keeping skills
• IT Literate
• Ability to supervise, support, and mentor junior staff
• Ability to work collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries

• Communicate effectively using a range of skills and strategies with colleagues and people at all stages of life and with a range of mental, physical, cognitive and behavioural health challenges
• Practise autonomously, proactively and innovatively, demonstrating selfawareness, emotional intelligence and openness.
• Willingness to work flexibly and travel across the district.
• Excellent role model demonstrating compassion and a patient-centred approach
• Showcases trust values at all times

• Must have means of own transport and able to drive in variable weather conditions
• Must be a non-smoker during working hours
• Must be willing to undertake Criminal records Bureau Disclosure to Enhanced / Standard level
• Must be legally entitled to work in this country

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.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust