District Nurse

• Manage a caseload of complex patients with healthcare needs within a designated population, using specialist knowledge to carry out assessments.
• Assess; develop; and implement individualised and specialist nursing care programmes in th
• Evaluate treatment interventions for the caseload and modify healthcare plans. Encourage the patient towards self-care and independence, using a health coaching approach and to provide training, education and advice.
• Work in partnership with other services to and the patient and their family/carer to preventing inappropriate admission to acute hospital settings.
• Support discharges into the
• Effectively manage and oversee the triage of all referrals to th
• Ensure all aspects of care offered by the team meet the agreed National, Professional and Local
• Be responsible for the coordination of the day-to-day planning and delivery of District Nursing services within the team, prioritising clinical needs and delegating where needed to provide an effective
• Be responsible with other senior colleagues to provide the needs of the patient/client group, planning and delivering services.
• Ensure nursing capacity is reported using escalation process a
• Undertakes independent prescribing for own caseload within the limits of the postholders competence and the requirements of the nurse practitioner role.

• To lead and manage the District Nursing Service in this Locality. To provide specialist clinical and supervisory leadership to junior staff and students within the team.
• To manage a caseload of patients with multiple and complex needs, using evidence-based practise to asses, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions, with the patient at the centre.
• To provide the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs, instigate and provide clinical treatments using evidence-based practice.
• To lead service development of integrated services in the Locality, in partnership with peers and colleagues.
• To use new knowledge in innovative ways and take responsibility for developing and changing practice in complex and sometimes unpredictable environments.
• To support staff to feel confident and competent to move across organisational and professional boundaries.
• To monitor the quality of care provision and identify and promote areas for service development.

Essential

• Registered Nurse Level 1
• District Nurse Qualification
• Non-medical prescribing qualification
• Preparation for Mentorship qualification
• NMC Registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Teaching, learning and assessing qualification

Desirable

• District Nurse qualification at Masters Level
• Specific Leadership qualification
• Tissue viability or leg ulcer management training
• V300 non-medical prescribing qualification
• Teaching, learning and assessing, Level 7 or PGCE

Essential

• Experience of leading a DN team
• Management of complex patients
• Be responsible for management of complex cases sharing knowledge and skills with locality and community nurses to foster and grow knowledge and skills
• Advanced clinical assessment skills
• Experience of history taking and physical examination
• Experience of working autonomously
• Experience of working with people with long term conditions
• Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities in relation to patients with long-term conditions, Nursing & Integration
• Ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working collaboratively and autonomously

Essential

• Ability to work unsupervised and manage people
• Ability to work across organisational and budgetary boundaries within an identified Locality
• Working in integrated team and style
• Provide and role model high standards of care
• Work in partnership with Alliance partners to deliver seamless care to patients and develop service and improvements
• Implementation of change to promote high quality outcomes for the locality
• Excellent communication skills (detail re complex situations)
• Health Coaching skills or willingness to undertake
• Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving li-cence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.