Diana Nurse Acute Band 6

Job summary

As a Diana Acute Nurse, you will work as an autonomous practitioner in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating specialist nursing care for a designated caseload of children/ young people including those with life limiting/threatening needs and technology dependent in a variety of community settings.

You will be expected to facilitate empowerment and partnership working with children/ young people and their families and multi-agency services.

You will be an effective team player, but also be able to plan and organise your own workload, possess excellent communication skills, and an ability to teach families and health professionals

You will be the advocate for the child/ young person and their family.

As part of this role you will be expected to co-ordinate the provision of appropriately managed packages of care for terminally ill children/ young people in hospital and community by being involved with 24/7 on-call system.

Main duties of the job

To work autonomously taking responsibility for care, quality and clinical activity for a designated caseload/team

To contribute to care quality performance and clinical activity by providing professional nursing leadership and guidance, clinical advice and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality: Patient safety, The effectiveness of all health care interventions, Patient experience and The environment in which care is delivered

To participate in the effective clinical leadership and management of the team.

To actively contribute to the improvement of service and quality of care provision to meet the needs of patients, service users and their families.

To act as role model, mentoring, teaching, assessing and supporting students and learners on placement and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff.

To work in collaboration with other senior nurses across LPT as appropriate and promote the role of their speciality nursing to all stakeholders.To foster a culture of networking in an open and transparent approach with internal and external partnerships and between all stakeholders.

Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of evidenced based care to a group of patients according to changing healthcare needs and varying levels of complexity.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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