District Nurse - Southam

Job overview

Do you hold the District Nurse Specialist Practitioner qualification or are you close to completing this?  Are looking to develop your career within the community setting?

We have a very exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and enthusiastic Band 6 District Nurse to join our Place Based Team covering the beautiful town and villages of Southam

We provide flexible working contracts to enable work life balance and an inclusive and friendly work environment with a highly supportive induction programme as well as staff benefits through VIVUP and Lease Car Schemes with mileage payments.

The NHS is changing direction and we are supporting a higher acuity of patients at home and focusing on the holistic and preventative needs of our patients to support them to stay at home.

You will contribute to the future workforce planning and pathway development of Routine Care and work closely alongside other services internally within our Urgent Community Response Team, Specialist Nurses, our Acute Trust at Warwick Hospital, and externally with the Local Authority, Hospice partners and GPs.

You will be supported in an environment where training and development opportunities are actively encouraged. With internal courses available in Leadership and Management and clinical simulation training as well as external courses supported by Coventry and Oxford Brookes University.

Would you like to work flexibly? We are supportive of agile working.

Main duties of the job

The District Nurse is responsible for the assessment and management of the health needs of an identified population and caseload, focusing on public health, preventative care, and admission avoidance.  They will support the team in implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within a range of target groups including preventative deterioration of complex health, health inequalities, social prescribing and signposting, management of comorbidities and supporting the prevention of an urgent care need.

The District Nurse Specialist Practitioner will clinically supervise and provide support to regulated and unregulated team members with career development, clinical capabilities and behaviours, education and supervision. They will assist the Professional Lead with recruitment and retention, support the wellbeing of the team and improve quality outcomes and budget management as well as implementing service improvement schemes and supporting in pathway development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities