Description
An exciting 9-month secondment opportunity has arisen for a qualified District Nurse with relevant experience to join one of our District Nursing Teams in Hillingdon to cover maternity leave.
As a District Nurse Team Leader, you will play an integral part in leading the delivery and development of the service. You will provide management support and professional nurse leadership to all members of the nursing team. The successful candidate will hold the DNSPQ qualification and have significant experience of nursing at a Band 6 level or above and an understanding of community nursing is essential.
Main duties of the job
- Act as a role model in expert practice facilitating and supporting the delivery of effective patient care by use of clinical judgement and decision making skills.
- Responsible for ensuring District Nursing teams develop appropriate plans of care for individual patients, families/carers or patient groups.
- To take continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for and with individual and their families.
- Lead the production of health profiles, formulate objectives and set priorities within the caseload.
- Develop innovative ways of case-finding patients with a particular focus on house-bound patients and the elderly from community locations and provide assessment & programmes of care to meet their primary health care needs.
- To provide a visible professional presence where staff, patients, carers, voluntary, statutory and private services can approach for assistance, advice & support to enable provision of holistic care.
- Implements the framework of informed consent.
- Use advanced specialist knowledge to enable patients & carers to develop self-care skills with respect to health and health services.
- To ensure appropriate supplies and equipment are in place and maintained in line with best practice in relation to client care and review as per local policy.
- Document consultations and practice to incorporate both audit and the setting and monitoring and evaluation of standards of care.
- Acts as a key coordinator promoting the delivery of seamless services.
- Lead and promote areas for practice development, devising guidelines and procedures to support the delivery of care.
- Implements the National Service Frameworks.
- Ensure that nursing care is evidence-based/best practice.
- Lead and facilitate appropriate audit to ensure evaluation of programmes of care & maintenance of high standards.
- Facilitate and participate in Trust-wide groups that require specialist input.
- Support the delivery of care through nurse prescribing.
- Plan and implement management of chronic diseases and work towards preventing the complications of long term conditions.
- Develop and contribute to health promotion programmes.
- Work with the training and development staff and other health care professionals and voluntary organisations to build the capacity of Primary Care Teams to address the health care needs of the communities.
- Work with other partners to facilitate access to other programmes to promote health for the communities (e.g. training, basic skills training, adult education).
Benefits of working as District Nurse Team Lead in CNWL Hillingdon
- Great team working and a supportive environment
- Outer London Weighting
- Training and career development opportunities
- Opportunities for research and audit to support innovative practice
- Intensive support from an assigned mentor and induction period.
- Open to flexible working patterns
- Personalised Clinical and Management Supervision
- DNTL Developmental Days
- Multi-disciplinary team working with other CNWL specialities
- Support from the Lead Nurses the DN Clinical Facilitator
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