District Nurse Team Lead

Job overview

CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services – We’re Recruiting!

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust provides a wide range of high quality community services, and we’re excited to welcome a Band 7 District Nurse Team Lead to our Hertfordshire Division.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, compassionate, and motivated registered nurse who is passionate about delivering excellent community nursing care and supporting colleagues to thrive.

The successful post holder will provide leadership and line management to a designated community nursing team, with responsibility for the assessment, management, and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care to patients in their own homes.

Supporting the day to day management, performance and development of the team, you would promote effective teamwork within the wider Primary Health Care Team, promoting effective communication and appropriate delegation, to the benefit of the patient and service delivery.

Monitoring the quality of care provisions and identifying areas for service improvement and development. Supporting Clinical and operational leads and Heads of Service in the delivery of high quality care. Partnership working with key stakeholders ensuring high quality, integrated and seamless care is delivered.

If you’re looking for the next step in your community nursing career and want to make a meaningful impact in people’s lives, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Duties include:

• To provide skilled, effective and evidence based nursing care to patients with complex care needs, in a variety of community settings.
• To act as an autonomous nurse taking on-going responsibility for the assessment, planning, evaluation and implementation of nursing care to individuals, groups of patients and their families on the district nursing caseload, delegating activities as appropriate.
• To undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical, psychological and social care needs of patients using the Single Assessment Process. Including the needs of carers.
• To act as the patient’s advocate and to facilitate the patient’s own choices with regard to nursing care, promoting independence and self-care as appropriate.
• To work in a collaborative manner with Primary Care staff, Acute services, Social Services and other agencies to ensure a seamless delivery of care.
• To provide information and support to patients, relatives and other carers that promotes and optimises positive health.
• To show confident leadership and decision making, alongside compassionate communication. With the ability to support others to learn and develop.

As this is a community-based role, there is a requirement to hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trust’s values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.