Lead Practitioner

Job overview

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Community Nursing Team as a Lead Practitioner in our Rapid Response Team based in Burton on Trent.

We are looking for a NMC registered professional who can provide strong clinical leadership and support safe and effective care for service users to join our busy team.

Our team work within a new service delivery model and we would like you to lead in the development of the role to further support our teams. You will work with the Operational Team and other senior nurses to share responsibility for organising the day-to-day running of the caseload, managing emerging risks, supporting effective reporting and governance and agreeing service transformation priorities.

You will be highly motivated and enthusiastic, have excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills and an ability to challenge practice as needed. You will be able to demonstrate competence in core community nursing clinical skills and a willingness to learn and share knowledge.

Main duties of the job

As Lead Practitioner, you will utilise your enhanced assessment skills to support decision-making and be competent and confident across areas of practice and provide enhanced holistic nursing care to housebound service users utilising enhanced assessment skills; decision making; prescribing and freedom to act as a Specialist Practitioner.

As part of this role, you will be expected to:

• Manage and co-ordinate a caseload of service users with complex physical health needs that require multi-systems health assessment; have multiple co-morbidities and may have social and mental health needs that influence their treatment plans. This may at times include co-ordination of MDT meetings.
• Take a lead in specialist areas and complex caseload management, providing advice and support to others to undertake community nursing care.
• Formulate plans of care and negotiate the implementation of such plans and the sharing of complex, sensitive, confidential, and at times contentious information e.g. explaining diagnosis and treatment plans; discussing disease progression and prognosis.
• Support staff development in the service by providing mentorship and supervision to pre and post registered nurses.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information of this role please see attached the job description and person specification.