Jobs in Großbritannien

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.

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.

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.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages, and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools, and people's homes.

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.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care