Job summary
DistrictNurse Service Lead-Permanent 37.5 Hours
An exciting opportunity has become available for a band 8A District Nursing Service Lead Post.
This post for theDistrictNurseServiceLeadership Team is an exciting opportunity for an individual to work alongside the existingDistrictNurseServiceLead to lead, manage and develop theCommunity District Nurse service.
We are seeking a highly motivated District Nurse with the aptitude, motivation, and leadership skills, to drive local and National changes and integration within community nursing. You will lead DN community nursing teams, working closely with the acute hospital, GPs, and Practice Nurses to ensure high quality care for the local population to ensure effective, efficient, safe, and high-quality nursing care for patients and carers.
Community Services are currently undergoing significant change in the delivery of community services to continuously improve patient care and outcomes, meet workforce demands, prevent inappropriate hospital admissions, and facilitate early discharge. The successful candidate will work with their Nursing Team leads to maintain capacity across community services to help achieve this. The post holder will work closely with the Community Nursing Services Lead to ensure the service is working in line with the service level agreements, Performance is achieved in terms of, KPIs, Finance, HR, Risk and Governance.
The post holder will have extensive experience and knowledge in managing clinical governance including incidents, risk registers and audits.
We value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality through our recruitment, we would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level.
Please contact Community Nursing Services Lead Gurdees Watson for further information.
Main duties of the job
The post holder willleadtheDistrictNursing Teams, being the first point of contact both from an internal and external perspective. You will be responsible for a wide range of general and operational management issues aimed at managing health economy flow and supporting "home first". This will be achieved through close liaison with General Practice, CommunityLeadfor AHP and NursingServices,NursePractitioners, Allied Health Professionals, ICTs, etc.
The post-holder will have the following key objectives:
- ToleadtheDistrictNursingServiceand its clinical capacity to maintain flow.
- To support the achievement of corporate targets.
- To play a key role in the economy escalation processes.
- To provide effective accountableleadership, clinical and operational support.
- Ensure effectiveserviceprovision in line with operational requirements.
About us
At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.
We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.
We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- First level Registered Nurse
- District Nursing Specialist Practitioner
- Masters level education or equivalent knowledge / experience
- Evidence of formal Leadership / Managerial Training and Development
- Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of clinical governance
- Awareness of national changes in Health Policy and NHS reforms
Desirable
- Evidence of commitment to life-long academic learning
Knowledge and Training
Essential
- Evidence of leadership / management qualities
- Demonstrates up to date evidence based clinical trends in chronic disease management
- Computer literate - ability to use software programmes designed to maximise the contribution to the post
- Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in primary care / disease management
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge and skills relating to complex chronic disease
- Up to date knowledge of current Government and Local imperatives and how these translate into local practice
Planning & Organisational Skills
Essential
- Motivated - able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service
- Forward thinking - to identify opportunities for improvement in service development
- Flexible - to meet the demands of the service
Experience
Essential
- Ability to prioritise workload effectively
- Manage staff effectively achieving optimum team satisfaction and team development
- Experience in managing significant service or organisation change, working effectively in multi-professional teams
- Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
- Evidence of leadership / management qualities
- Understanding and experience of capacity management
- Communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation
- Ability to exercise independent judgement
- Ability to analyse data and present information to various audiences
Desirable
- Ability to prescribe as an extended / supplementary prescriber
Communication & Relationship Skills
Essential
- Can work on own initiative
- Can work as part of a team
- Flexible approach to work
Physical Skills
Essential
- Must be able to commute to meet the demands of the role
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- First level Registered Nurse
- District Nursing Specialist Practitioner
- Masters level education or equivalent knowledge / experience
- Evidence of formal Leadership / Managerial Training and Development
- Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of clinical governance
- Awareness of national changes in Health Policy and NHS reforms
Desirable
- Evidence of commitment to life-long academic learning
Knowledge and Training
Essential
- Evidence of leadership / management qualities
- Demonstrates up to date evidence based clinical trends in chronic disease management
- Computer literate - ability to use software programmes designed to maximise the contribution to the post
- Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in primary care / disease management
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge and skills relating to complex chronic disease
- Up to date knowledge of current Government and Local imperatives and how these translate into local practice
Planning & Organisational Skills
Essential
- Motivated - able to motivate self and others to deliver a quality service
- Forward thinking - to identify opportunities for improvement in service development
- Flexible - to meet the demands of the service
Experience
Essential
- Ability to prioritise workload effectively
- Manage staff effectively achieving optimum team satisfaction and team development
- Experience in managing significant service or organisation change, working effectively in multi-professional teams
- Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
- Evidence of leadership / management qualities
- Understanding and experience of capacity management
- Communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation
- Ability to exercise independent judgement
- Ability to analyse data and present information to various audiences
Desirable
- Ability to prescribe as an extended / supplementary prescriber
Communication & Relationship Skills
Essential
- Can work on own initiative
- Can work as part of a team
- Flexible approach to work
Physical Skills
Essential
- Must be able to commute to meet the demands of the role
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
