District Nurse / Senior Community Nurse - SHaR District Nurse Team
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
Band 6 District Nurse (SPQ) or Band 6 Senior Community Nurse, development post
Contract type:
District Nurse (SPQ) - Permanent.
Senior Community Nurse - Development post. This is a Fixed Term post of 12 months with a potential to extend for a further 12 months.
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Community Nurse to work within Community Services, Care Group One.
The successful candidates will be expected to support their team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust's Values in their day-to-day work.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced senior community nurse with excellent clinical, communication skills and evidence of caseload management experience wishing to develop their skills further in a team leadership position.
You should be innovative, enthusiastic and highly motivated with the drive to provide high quality evidenced based care and manage a team of varying skill mix.
You will need to provide strongleadership toyour team and tosupport and participate in the development of new ways of working following the recent service redesign. This will be in addition to embracingworking within a multi-disciplinary environment and managing acaseload of patients with complex needs.
As a Senior Community Nurse working in a development role there is an expectation that within 2 years you will secure a place on a specialist practitioner course to become a qualified District Nurse.
Secondment opportunity is available for internal candidates only.
The ability to transport yourself and equipment across the locality during the course of a normal working day is required for this vacancy.
If you are currently employed by the Trust and you wish to apply for this role on a secondment basis, please seek permission from your current line manager before applying for the post.
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full-time, Part-time
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year pro rata / per annum
Closing date
10/08/2023