# District Nurse

**Company**: First Community Health and Care
**Location**: Oxted
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £39959.00 to £48117.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and enthusiastic Band 6 NMC registered District Nurse to join our South Tandridge team.

As a District Nurse, you will be responsible for the management and delivery of a high standard of cost-effective nursing care in the community. You will work as part of a team, providing high standards of care to people in their own homes who have a wide range of nursing needs, aiming to avoid hospital admission, promoting self-care, and enabling people to be cared for in their preferred place.

The role involves line management responsibilities, supporting the Team Lead with the team's ongoing development and well-being. Due to the nature of the role, it is essential that you can drive, have a car suitable for business purposes, and a valid driving licence.

The service operates 365 days a year between 8am and 6pm, and you will be required to work shift patterns between these times. You will need to be forward thinking, motivated, and able to work collaboratively with patients, their carers, and health and social care colleagues.

We offer NHS terms and conditions, excellent training and development, flexible working, NHS pension, flexible retirement options, and a range of employee benefits.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Manage and deliver high-quality nursing care to patients in their own homes

- Work collaboratively with patients, carers, and health and social care colleagues

- Provide high standards of care to people with a wide range of nursing needs

- Line manage staff and support the Team Lead with team development and well-being

- Drive and have a car suitable for business purposes

**Requirements:**

- Specialist Practice Qualification in District Nursing

- Registered Nurse (RN1)

- Mentor-Practice assessor and supervisor

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Ability to lead and manage a team

- Ability to organise workload, delegate, and prioritise

- Good IT skills

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to assess holistically to plan, implement, and evaluate care

- Ability to motivate and teach patients, families, and carers to support self-care

- Time management and prioritisation

- Ability to work without supervision

- Excellent decision-making skills in an unpredictable environment

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## Skills

### Required
- Specialist Practice Qualification in District Nursing
- Registered Nurse (RN1)
- Mentor-Practice assessor and supervisor
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead and manage a team
- Ability to organise workload, delegate, and prioritise
- Good IT skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to assess holistically to plan, implement, and evaluate care
- Ability to motivate and teach patients, families, and carers to support self-care
- Time management and prioritisation
- Ability to work without supervision
- Excellent decision-making skills in an unpredictable environment

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