District Nurse

Job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse to join our friendly and innovative District Nursing Team covering Hanley, Bucknall, Bentilee PCN based at Bentilee Neighbourhood Centre.

We are looking for a qualified District Nurse to lead our HBB Community Nursing Team. We have a great interest in moving District Nursing forward in line with local population and service needs. You will work alongside our Lead Specialist Practitioners, Operational Leads and Senior Community Nurses to provide effective leadership, support staff development and caseload management.

You will work alongside the leadership team to ensure proactive and effective care delivery, liaising and working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure individualised and evidence based care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

You will manage a caseload, alongside the Lead Specialist Practitioner, including over a wide geographical area by providing support and supervision to staff to enable provision of high quality person-centred care to patients within their own homes and clinic settings.

You will hold a key role in building and maintaining excellent working practices with Social Care and Allied Health colleagues within the primary care network.

You will an effective leader, demonstrating care, compassion and empathy and role modelling the Trust values.

You will be competent in a variety of clinical skills, and be able to share your knowledge and expertise with others, signposting to more specialist services as appropriate.

You will be able to engage complex patients, agree mutually beneficial treatment plans and to plan, implement and evaluate care pathways.

You will support with quality assurance, including audit, incident reporting and gaining patient feedback. You will work with the leadership team to evaluate this in line with objectives.

The successful candidate will take responsibility for the planning and delivery of care and the management of staff in the absence of the Clinical Lead/Operational Lead. You must be able to demonstrate managerial and leadership skills and be able to make sound clinical decisions independently.

We are looking for someone with excellent clinical, communication, interpersonal and team skills to work collaboratively across all care settings.

About us

Working for MPFT

MPFT provides physical and mental health care, learning disability, and adult social care services across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, and Telford & Wrekin. In addition, we provide services on a wider regional and national basis. We serve a population of 1.5 million and employ around 8,500 members of staff. By joining MPFT you will become part of a diverse and inclusive team who are empowered and supported to deliver care in a way which is consistent with our values:

oputting people at the heart of what we dooempowering people to improve care and wellbeingodelivering better health, better care in partnership

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals. All have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

We will support your career development and progression. Membership of the excellent NHS pension scheme, generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave, pay and the option for flexible working. You will receive up to 27 days annual leave (increasing to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.

We are also proud to have a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.