Deputy Team Leader District Nursing

We are looking to recruit a qualified specialist District Nurse practitioner with good clinical assessment and decision-making skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to manage a caseload effectively and prioritize tasks.You will receive monthly supervision with your Team Leader and participate fully in a monthly senior nurses meeting, daily nursing handover, fortnightly Pressure Ulcer meeting and a range of other Band 6 responsibilities. You will play a vital role in ensuring the service operates at the highest level and be able to put into practice and develop your clinical and managerial supervision skills.Main duties of the jobYou will ensure that a high quality service is provided in the patient's home, or residential care settings within available resources. The service is provided over 2 shifts working from 8am till 8 pm.Responsibility for the nursing care given to the patients on your own case load and for the nursing care provided by the team. The Deputy Team Leader will ensure a case management model of delivery including the effective assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation of care and the discharge of patients from the case load meets the professional and clinical standards/guidelines at all times under the direction of the District Nurse Team Leader.Supervise and support junior nursing staff and healthcare assistants.Coordinate care with GPs, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals.About usOur mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisationsJob responsibilitiesFor a more detailed Job Description and Personal Specification please see attached JD & PS.For contact details please see below.Person SpecificationEducation/ Qualification/ TrainingRGNDN Cert./Dip Limited PrescriberBSc/ MSc Specialist Nursing Practice ( District Nursing)Personal Skills and AttributesAbility to effectively manage the caseload, prioritize and delegate workAbility to work within a team of community nurses and ensure PCT policies and procedures are followedAbility to organize own workload, work under pressure and forward plan team activities i.e. vaccination programs and training needsAbility to communicate information effectively to the Primary Health Care Team and other professionals/agenciesEvidence of good communication skills both written and verbalEffectively communicate sensitive, complex and sometimes distressing information to patients, carers and staffAbility to show empathy and provide reassuranceMaintain own professional developmentKnowledge and SkillsEvidence of professional developmentEvidence of recent clinical practiceKnowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of PracticeEvidence of leadership, change management and motivational skillsKnowledge and understanding of current health and social care policy, i.e. National Service FrameworksKnowledge of evidenced based practice, i.e. NICE guidelines on Pressure Ulcers, Palliative Care and RCN guidelines Leg Ulcer ManagementKnowledge of principles of Clinical GovernanceComputer LiterateExperience with safeguarding vulnerable adults and childrenComputer LiterateKnowledge of Health PromotionEvidence of competence in clinical skills, i.e. Tissue Viability, Palliative Care and Syringe Drivers, Venepuncture, Cannulation , Catherisation (Male and female) and Supra-pubic Vaccination and ImmunisationKnowledge of Adults at Risk and Vulnerable Adult PolicyOtherCar Driver/OwnerPhysical effort: Ability to assess and manage risk in unpredictable working conditionsAbility to sit/kneel in prolonged positions/cramped positions for a sustained period of timeAbility to hoist patients/assist transfer of patients and to undertake treatment in close proximity to the patientAbility to move and handle patients following risk assessment and within PCT moving and handling guidelinesAbility to frequently concentrate on the task in hand whilst also assessing and evaluating the whole situationAbility to manage unpredictable situationsAbility to manage competing demands, i.e. staff, patients and organisational needsAbility to occasionally manage challenging behaviour i.e. verbal abuse or situations where elder abuse is suspectedOccasional risk from exposure to blood and body fluids - required to apply Universal Infection Control procedures at all timesDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.£44,485 to £52,521 a yearper annum inc HCA #J-18808-Ljbffr