District Nurse - Assistant Team Leader

Job summary

Windermere and Ambleside District Nurses have an exciting opportunity to recruit a qualified Community Specialist Practitioner in District Nursing to a full time, permanent band 6 position.

You will be working within the beautiful Lake District as part of a dynamic and supportive team who continuously strive to deliver gold standard patient care within our community.

As a team, we also give equal importance to staff health and wellbeing, Utilising your specialist skills and knowledge, you will demonstrate genuine passion and enthusiasm for holistic patient- centred care delivery whilst facilitating and undertaking personal and professional development, which is supported by our team and Community Care Group.

Posts available: x1 37.5hr post

We encourage you to make contact with our Team Lead, Barbara Connor to discuss this post or to arrange an informal visit. Tel- 07976172119

Main duties of the job

This exciting opportunity is for a dedicated and motivated Assistant Team Lead to work across Windermere and Ambleside and the Grange over Sands Community Nursing Teams as part of the Integrated Care Community (ICC's), covering a 24 hour period including weekends and bank holidays, 7 days a week.

You may also be expected to work across a variety of DN teams in the Community Care Group to maintain service delivery.

Community Nurses work closely with all health and social care disciplinaries to prevent hospital admission, facilitate hospital discharge and promote independence through reablement and management of long term conditions. The role requires excellent communication skills as you will undertake complex nursing assessments and develop and deliver programmes of care with patients, families and carers.

You will need a full UK divers licence and access to a vehicle in order to fulfil this role.

About us

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Our community services for adults are provided in people's homes, community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals and our main hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, advice and support.