There are many benefits of working as District Nurse Team Lead in CNWL Hillingdon with a few mentioned below:

• 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
• Personalized Clinical and Management Supervision
• DNTL Developmental Days
• Multi-disciplinary team working with other CNWL specialties
• Support from the Lead Nurses, the DN Clinical Facilitator

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

As one of the leads for District Nursing and in association with other members of the locality team, the post holder will facilitate all aspects of care and information to patients and assist staff already involved in the care of patients through the following interventions.

• 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 the Twilight 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 programs 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 & programs 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 programs 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 programs.
• Work with the training and development staff and other healthcare professionals and voluntary organizations 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 programs to promote health for the communities (e.g. training, basic skills training, adult education).

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Currently Registered with NMC as RGN
• Educated to Degree Level or above
• Degree qualifications in Public Health, Community Health, or Specialist Practitioner
• Mentorship

Desirable criteria

• Management course – e.g. Cert. in Management Studies (CMS)
• Teaching Qualification – working towards

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• IT skills
• Ability to devise & deliver teaching packages to patients and colleagues, formally, informally, individually, and in groups.
• Ability to sensitively manage & resolve complaints
• Ability to work across boundaries to develop new ways of service delivery
• Presentations/ Report writing
• Facilitate change
• Ability to plan own workload and manage time effectively with minimum supervision
• Ability to effectively manage/delegate others' workload
• Caseload management
• Group facilitation
• Car Driver essential
• Manage own and others' stress

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to act as Clinical Locality Lead in their absence

Experience

Essential criteria

• Community Nursing experience at Band 6 / equivalent or above.
• Experience of team/staff management including PDP & appraisal
• Experience of implementing NMC / NICE Guidelines & Essence of Care Benchmarks
• Multi-agency working
• Audit experience

Desirable criteria

• Project Management

Attitudes, Aptitudes, Personal Characteristics

Essential criteria

• Flexible to change process
• High priority in multi-agency engagement
• Flexible and understanding to staff and team needs