District Nurse

Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic and highly motivated District Nurse with a Specialist Practice Qualification, looking for an opportunity to lead and develop our friendly and supportive Lichfield & Burntwood District Nursing team?

We are looking for a NMC Registered Band 6 District Nurse with a Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing who is dynamic, motivated and highly skilled to support, coach and develop individuals to deliver consistently high-quality services.

You will be managing a caseload of patients while providing support and supervision for team members and students to enable provision of high-quality person-centred care to patients within their own homes which includes ensuring high standards of care are delivered in line with MPFT’s policies and meeting locally required targets.

You will be well supported by our Lead Specialist Practitioner and Community Nurse Educator.

This role is part-time, 30 hours per week across a 7 days per week service with an expectation to travel independently across the geographical patch.  We will consider requests for flexible working.

Main duties of the job

As Band 6 district nurse you will have a detailed professional and clinical skills and knowledge, be a skilled and competent specialist practitioner and have a focus in the following areas:

• Palliative care
• Administration of medication
• Management of long-term conditions
• Onward referrals to other members of the Multi Disciplinary Team including Specialist Pelvic Health, Community Matron, Diabetes Specialist Nurse and therapy services
• Communication with GP’s, Palliative Care teams
• Assessment of complex/specialist care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support
• Supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.

Work with the Operational Lead undertaking delegated tasks in team management

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details, please see the job description and person specification attached.

Why choose South Staffordshire as a place to work?

We are an innovative, integrated Community Nursing service covering the Lichfield and Burntwood area. We work closely across the Nursing teams,  including our Community Rapid Intervention Service, Unplanned Care, Podiatry, Physio, Falls Team, Stroke and Rehab teams whilst also liaising with our out of hours service and our Palliative Care team and Local Hospices to ensure that our patients are at the centre of the care provided and have access to the services they need when they need them. We recognise the importance of a patient centred, holistic approach and utilise evidence based practice whilst working together across all the nursing and therapy teams

We pride ourselves on our strong leadership, innovation, prevention and implementation of care. We ensure that MPFT’s values and behaviours are at the heart of what we do and that staff within our teams work within these in order that our patients benefit from our ethos. We support the development and learning of all staff, having great links with our own development team and our local universities, whist also priding ourselves on growing our own staff and leaders of the future.

If you are interested in joining our innovative workforce, then choose South Staffs for the next chapter in your career.