District Nursing Sister

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

District Nursing Sister, Band 6 Greenwich DN Teams
Permanent; Full Time - 37.5 hrs per week
We are seeking to appoint an innovative Community District Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse. You must hold the District Nurse Specialist Practitioner Qualification. You will manage a District Nursing team within the Greenwich Directorate of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
The successful candidates will be part of a progressive and supportive team located in South East London. Our District Nursing Service delivers care to a diverse population across the borough of Greenwich.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, conscientious, adaptable manager and team player with highly developed nursing skills.
You must be able to work on your own initiative. Previous clinical team management experience is essential.
In our district nursing teams, due to the requirement to be able to travel between patients’ homes in a timely manner, a full UK driver’s licence is essential as well as access to a car for work purposes.
You will be committed to the development of the team through effective leadership and be given the opportunity to develop your own clinical skills through the delivery of a wide range of evidence based care and an active personal development plan.
These posts are not suitable for RMN or Learning Disability nurses.
The post holder will lead a team of nurses and support staff with the responsibility of managing the care for a defined caseload.
Community Nurses work as part of a team delivering high quality evidence based nursing care to clients within their own home, residential homes and clinical environments. As part of a District Nursing team you will have a role placing emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation as well as curative and palliative care.
The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students and other health care professionals
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
To assess, plan, implement and provide regular evaluation of health care needs in conjunction with patients, their carers and other appropriate members of the multidisciplinary team.
Prioritisation, organisation and appropriate delegation of the responsibilities and workloads within the team will be required to ensure efficient and effective service provisions
To be responsible for the caseload management of patients within the practice population.
To be responsible for keeping up to date with current issues and events in Primary Health Care.
To actively participate and influence the developments of Community nursing services.
To provide support and health education programmes for patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.
To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the trust as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.
To work alongside other members of the multidisciplinary team e.g. attend meetings of Primary Health Care Team.
To ensure own mandatory training and team members mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Trust policies
Ability to use Information Technology including Word, email and the internet and RIO
Participation in complaint investigations, when requested

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