Community Nursing Sister - Golden Valley

Job overview

We are the Golden Valley District Nursing Team, a dedicated team providing excellent planned and unplanned nursing care to patients in their own homes. We aim to deliver high quality care to improve health & wellbeing and to support our patients to remain living at home. We pride ourselves in being hard-working and a small knit supportive Team.

We’re seeking to recruit a permanent 37.5 hour a week  Band 6 District Nursing Sister who shares our passion for caring for people in their own homes and strives towards excellence in community nursing. It is desirable for this post that the successful candidate will hold the Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing.

We’re keen to recruit a colleague with the right values and behaviours who can help us deliver our Trust priorities:

• Compassion - we work closely with patients and their families to ensure care is holistic, person-centred and patient-focussed.
• Accountability – we work in partnership with a wide range of multi-disciplinary teams, including GP's, Palliative Care Nurses, Therapy Teams,
• Respect  - we foster good working  environments and want our staff to feel safe, supported and empowered.
• Excellence – we work closely with the Quality Matron and Advanced Care Practitioners to support complex patient care.

Do you share these values? If so, read on…

Main duties of the job

As a district nursing sister you will hold an individual caseload delivering a wide range of nursing interventions such as, but not limited to CVAD , EOL care, drain management and catheter care. In addition you will support junior team members with more complex nursing interventions on the team’s shared caseload.

You will be expected to undertake senior reviews of complex patients within their own home and co-ordinate care appropriately.

You will provide clinical supervision for those within the team as appropriate and utilise your leadership skills to enhance and develop knowledge and skills of staff.

You will work closely with your designated GP practice, attend multidisciplinary  meetings and work in partnership with our health and social  care colleagues to provide optimal care plans for our complex patients.

We are a busy service and caseloads are reflective of this.  Golden Valley covers one of the largest geographical areas. This requires you to have good organisational skills, an ability to work independently and flexibility to support the needs of the service. You will be able to demonstrate excellent nursing skills, ability to motivate others and work well as part of a small team.

You will be required to work weekends and bank holidays as part of a rota and cover late shifts until 8pm. The role involves visiting patients at home in a rural setting and you therefore must be able to drive and have access to a car. There are opportunities for lease cars.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents.