Specialist Community Practitioner - Student District Nurse

at  Whittington Health NHS Trust

To work towards gaining the standards of proficiency for entry to the NMC register/recordable for Specialist Community Practitioner. To provide the Specialist Community Practitioner Student with a learning environment, this will enable the student to develop knowledge, skills and competencies to take on the role of a qualified Specialist Community Practitioner within a defined pathway.
To gain the knowledge and skills and competence in order to exercise higher levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care focusing on the four domains outlined by the Queens Nursing Institute (QNI 2015):
Clinical Care
Leadership and Operational Management
Facilitation of Learning
Evidence, Research and Development
The post of Specialist Community Practitioner Sponsorship Student is a development post building on existing knowledge, skills and competencies to achieve a higher level of practice resulting in an academic qualification as well as a recordable qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
The fundamental responsibilities of the post holder are to attain the academic credentials and the clinical skills required to practice as a NMC registered Speciality Community Public Health Nurse on a defined pathway.

• To be aware of and act in accordance with agreed policies, procedures, legislation and NMC standards.
• To adhere to Whittington Health policies and procedures at all times.
• To ensure that records are kept and maintained in line with NMC guidelines, Trust record keeping and information governance policies.
• To adhere to national and local infection control procedures and standards at all times.
• To be willing to expand nursing knowledge/skills by undertaking further professional training, to keep up to date with professional developments and maintain current PREP portfolio.
• To set appropriate objectives and review them regularly with the District Nurse Team Manager.
• To meet regularly with the District Nurse Team Manager in order to review own performance.
• To take part in clinical supervision on a regular basis according to Whittington Health requirements.
• To participate in clinical audit in order to promote the development of patient centred evidence based practice.
• Whittington Health is an integrated care organisation and there may be occasions when members of staff are required to rotate between clinical environments to meet service need. This could be on a long or short term basis.