District Nurse - Community Specialist Practitioner

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Care closer to home is becoming integral to the future of the NHS and the Community Health Services (CHS) Division of NottsHC are at the forefront of this exciting journey. Working with our system partners in creating collaborative ways to improve physical health care services, activities and interventions in local communities, which meet the needs of our patients in the places they call home.

The division operates under three Units of Management providing an extensive portfolio of children’s, adults and specialist services, covering a vast geographical area. We offer various clinical and non-clinical roles, working within supportive teams that encourage us all to work to the best of our abilities to provide the highest quality care.

Being part of an organisation as diverse as NottsHC provides you with great career development opportunities, to be innovative and gives you permission to grow both professionally and personally and really make a difference.

Our integrated teams of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals deliver care to people who present with significant physical health care needs in various settings including clinic based, community inpatient, hospices to care in the patient’s own home, including care homes, enabling them to be independent, self-caring and live their optimum lives, reducing hospital admissions.

Services range from community nursing, including specialist practitioners, to public health and health promotion such as school nursing and health visiting, with many specialist community services designed to support care pathways such as Physiotherapy, OT, Speech and Language, Dietetics and Podiatry.

Supporting the efficient running of these services are administrative and managerial roles. All roles, at all levels, are vital in transforming community health services, ensuring high quality care is provided both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients - together we all make a difference.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career.

Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people – our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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District Nurse

Full or Part-time hours considered

We are actively seeking an outstandingSpecialist Practitioner Qualified District Nurseto work in Retford and the surrounding villages .

We would like to hear from Specialist Practitioner Qualified District nurses who are compassionate about delivery of safe and effective care ,place value in community based care and who feel they can bring something different to our well established, high performing team.

The post holder will

Provide a defined level of specialist assessment and access to interventions for a diverse patient group and their families under the care programme approach, who present with significant general medical problems/disorders.

You will be person centred and provide leadership to the nursing team, demonstrating sound managerial skills in line with Trust values and objectives.

You will develop and supervise junior members of staff and work collaboratively with the wider professional team.

Please read the job description for a detailed breakdown of what the role will entail and the experience we are looking for.

Please contact us if you want to learn more about the vacancy or our services, and do not hesitate to come and have a look round and an informal chat before submitting your application.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Why choose us?

As a District Nurse not only will you reflect our core Trust values in every aspect of your role but you will find yourself in a Trust that believes in promoting a healthy work life balance, actively listens to its employees, values innovation and is taking positive strides to make this Trust the employer of choice in the region and a truly Great Place to Work.

In addition, we are committed to supporting the ongoing personal development of our staff, be that clinically and/or in their leadership journey, with a growing programme of learning and development opportunities.

You will become part of the North Unit Of Management family and be welcomed by an extremely supportive and efficient team who display high levels of quality and compassion to the care they provide and receive a local induction tailored to suit your individual needs.

You will be afforded an informal discussion with a Manager of the service which provides opportunity for you to share your journey to NottsHC and understand how your values align with ours and the factors that motivate you to reinforce a supportive working relationship.

As you settle in you will receive regular, meaningful clinical and managerial supervisions and an appraisal within 4 months of commencing in your role to establish how we can support you to be the best version of yourself, whilst achieving your developmental needs and aspirations.

We are passionate about recognising the contributions and achievements our staff make and recognise a “North Star” and Team of “North Stars” every 3 months, whereby those who are nominated for the Trust recognition scheme are voted for by our leadership team to receive a special award.

You will have access to internal and external training and quality improvement opportunities and not to mention the wide range of employee benefits NottsHC offer;

• Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays (this will increase up to 33 days depending on NHS service and in accordance with A4C terms and conditions)
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working and job share opportunities
• Promotion of a healthy work life balance
• Salary sacrifice schemes e.g. public transport loans, cycle schemes
• Staff discount schemes e.g. Discounted leisure Centre membership
• Free on-site parking (dependent on site)
• An extensive health and wellbeing package including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Counselling services
• Support for carers

Go on, take a positive leap in your career and join Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust! If you want to be the District Nurse that makes a difference, then we look forward to receiving your application.