District Nurse / Caseload Manager

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you a specialist practitioner in district nursing or you hold Health Needs Assessment and are looking to develop you career within the community setting?

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and enthusiastic Band 6 District Nurse to join our Place Based Team based in South Leamington.

We provide flexible working contracts to enable work life balance and an inclusive and friendly work environment with a highly supportive induction programme as well as staff benefits through VIVUP and Lease Car Schemes with mileage payments.

The NHS is changing direction and we are supporting a higher acuity of patients at home and focusing on the holistic and preventative needs of our patients to support them to stay at home.

You will contribute to the future workforce planning and pathway development of Routine Care and work closely alongside other services internally within our Urgent Community Response Team, Specialist Nurses, our Acute Trust at Warwick Hospital, and externally with the Local Authority, Hospice partners and GPs.

You will be supported in an environment where training and development opportunities are actively encouraged. With internal courses available in Leadership and Management and clinical simulation training as well as external courses supported by Coventry and Oxford Brookes University.

Would you like to work flexibly? We are supportive of agile working.

Main duties of the job

The District Nurse is responsible for the assessment and management of the health needs of an identified population and for the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within a range of target groups including end of life care, complex health needs and patients identified as being at risk of hospital admission.

The District Nurse will clinically supervise and provide support to a team off staff - being responsible for the development and competencies of staff within their team. To include performance development reviews, clinical supervision and recruitment and selection.

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full-time

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum

Closing date

31/10/2023