Job overview

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.

• Week days including one weekend in 4
• 5 Years Community Experience 
• For those who are aspiring to join the DN Course

Main duties of the job

• 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.
• Assist in the prioritisation, organisation and appropriate delegation of the responsibilities and workloads within the team will be required to ensure efficient and effective service provision
• To support the Team lead in managing the caseload 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.

Working for our organisation

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