Job summary
Title: District Nurse
Salary: Band 6
Hours: 37.5 Hours / Week (FULL TIME)
Base: Merlin House, Tamworth, B78 3HF
A vacancy has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join our District Nursing Team, providing care to clients in their own homes.
You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to organise and prioritise your workload without direct supervision. Along with other Band 6 colleagues, you will support the Operational Manager in managing and coordinating aspects of care and service provision including case management within the team.
Past experience within a community setting is essential. You must have excellent leadership skills and possess the Special Practice Qualification. You will be supported by the Lead Specialist Practitioner and Operational Manager and through peer support from other Band 6 District Nurses within the team. There will opportunities for personal development through informal and formal learning, including the opportunity to complete V300 Prescribing Course if not already achieved.
Contact: Laura.Wilson@mpft.nhs.uk - Operational manager
Main duties of the job
You will be part of the District Nursing Team that covers Tamworth. The service provides treatments and assessments to housebound patients living within our community.
As a Band 6 within the team, you will be responsible for allocating planned visits, triage new referrals received from our Local Access Point and be a leader within the team in order to support our Band 5's, 4's, 3's and 2's.
We are a proactive team, encouraging self care to those we visit and you will also manage a caseload ensuring that holistic assessments are robust, and that patients are managed appropriately, accessing our ambulatory services when they are able to.
Please see the job spec for full details.
About us
Our mission, our values and our behaviours will help to define our culture as a new organisation. This has been an inclusive process and we have undertaken a comprehensive engagement programme over many months to help shape what MPFT stands for.
Our behaviours
- Lead by example
- Respectful
- Honest & trustworthy
- Caring & compassionate
- Listen and engage
Our values
- Puttingpeopleat the heart of what we do
- Empoweringpeople to improve care & wellbeing
- Delivering better health, better care inpartnership
Our mission
Together we are making life better for our communities
Job description
Job responsibilities
As per attached JD and Person Specification.
The Post holder will:
- Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the
- Demonstrate at all times the Partnership Trust Values of: People, Empowerment and Partnership.
- Be a Registered Nurse and have a detailed professional and clinical They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in the following areas;
- Palliative care
- Management of continence
- Administration of medication
- Management of long term conditions
- Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community and
- Be skilled in the assessment of complex/specialist care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support
- Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
- Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to
- Work with the Operational Lead undertaking delegated tasks in team
Job description
Job responsibilities
As per attached JD and Person Specification.
The Post holder will:
- Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the
- Demonstrate at all times the Partnership Trust Values of: People, Empowerment and Partnership.
- Be a Registered Nurse and have a detailed professional and clinical They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in the following areas;
- Palliative care
- Management of continence
- Administration of medication
- Management of long term conditions
- Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community and
- Be skilled in the assessment of complex/specialist care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support
- Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
- Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to
- Work with the Operational Lead undertaking delegated tasks in team
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse Level 1
- Degree Level Specialist Practitioner Course (District Nursing)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- A wide range of clinical experience including hospital and community settings
- Good knowledge of teamwork
Desirable
- An understanding of team dynamics
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse Level 1
- Degree Level Specialist Practitioner Course (District Nursing)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- A wide range of clinical experience including hospital and community settings
- Good knowledge of teamwork
Desirable
- An understanding of team dynamics
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).
