Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
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
About us
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
- 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- 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.
Person Specification
BSc specialist Practice DN
Essential
Desirable
Communication
Essential
Mentor/ practice assessor
Essential
Desirable
- recognised teaching qualification
2 years CSN
Essential
Desirable
- knowledge of safeguarding
Person Specification
BSc specialist Practice DN
Essential
Desirable
Communication
Essential
Mentor/ practice assessor
Essential
Desirable
- recognised teaching qualification
2 years CSN
Essential
Desirable
- knowledge of safeguarding
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Various sites and budget across Greenwich District nursing
Greenwich DN Teams
Greenwich
SE18 3RG
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
