District Nurse / Case Manager - Nantwich
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 x 12 month temporary maternity and secondment cover as a Band 6 District Nurse / Case Manager in Nantwich and Rural Care Community Teams. The successful candidates will be joining a caring, compassionate and hardworking team, who work together to provide the best care for patients in the area. They will also be joining a team who pull together to look after each other, and who work to the value that everyone matters.
Main duties of the job
In the role as a Temporary District Nurse / Case Manager you will work in partnership with our patients and their families to lead in the delivery of person centred, safe and effective care. The successful candidates will require the ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and skills in the management of patients with complex needs, long term conditions and end of life care.
You will have extensive clinical experience and experience of case management, preferably within the community setting and be able to demonstrate recent and ongoing clinical professional development relevant to this post. You will be supported to develop your leadership, organisational and communication skills and how to manage challenging situations in a professional and flexible manner.
Although the posts are based in Nantwich, there will be at times a requirement to work across the footprint of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership. If you share our vision to improve the quality of people’s lives, in their own homes and community, by providing the best integrated care we would love to hear from you.
Travel is an essential part of this role; please demonstrate on your application form how you would meet this requirement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the management and coordination of patients requiring community nursing input. The District Nurse/ Case Manager will oversee/undertake the assessment of complex nursing care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of individualised care to patients on a defined district nurse case load.
They will deputise as required in the absence of the team leader to ensure continued efficient and effective service delivery.
They will work as part of the integrated community health care team, working within and across professional and organisational boundaries covering the 24 hour period of service delivery.
They will assist and support the district nurse team leader in providing clinical leadership to the community nursing team and to assist in leading the team in the provision of high quality, evidence based programmes of care.