Lead Specialist Practitioner - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We have an opportunity for a Lead Specialist Practitioner (Community Nursing) within the Stoke Central community nursing team.

The successful applicant will join an established collective operational and clinical leadership team who support the delivery of community nursing services in Hanley, Bucknall and Bentilee Primary Care Network and the wider team across the North Alliance.

Please see the job description and person specification for more details of the post and requirements.

Providing clinical leadership to the community nursing team. Supporting the District Nurse caseload holder/senior nurse to ensure safe and effective care for service users. They will have the shared responsibility for organising the day to day running of the caseload.

Oversight of the running of the District/Community Nursing caseload and development of staff within the team, working alongside the Operational Lead/Manager and Education Lead.

They will provide enhanced holistic nursing care to housebound service users utilising enhanced assessment skills; decision making; prescribing and freedom to act as a Specialist Practitioner.

Being a senior member of the community nursing team they will share clinical knowledge, expertise and advice and provide mentorship and supervision to pre and post-registration nurses in the community nursing team.

Working closely with other MPFT services and external partners to support the development and delivery of effective care pathways. Supporting the delivery of place based care within the attached locality.

To contribute to service/policy development through active membership on working parties or professional forums. To be aware of national and local policy that impacts upon the health and wellbeing of service users.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees.

We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

We pride ourselves on the services provided to support with the well-being of all of our employees both physically and mentally and offer counselling support and lifestyle information.

Opportunities for flexible working are also available depending on the role.

We encourage career development provided by in house training programs and coaching support.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

To provide face to face nursing care, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care and treatment for housebound service users with complex physical, psychological and social needs.
Managing and co-ordinating a caseload of service users with complex physical health needs that require multi-systems health assessment; have multiple co-morbidities and may have social and mental health needs that influence their treatment plans. This may at times include co-ordination of MDT meetings.
To work closely with the service users, their carer's and families ensuring that they have the tools to manage and monitor their own condition where appropriate and have robust management plans in place to recognise deterioration and access appropriate care.
Have an understanding of the demographics and population profile of their attached PCN/locality. Acting as a key stakeholder working with system partners to ensure the physical health needs of the population are met and work to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital.
Collaborate with the Clinical Education Lead in developing training and practice. Providing support, mentorship and assessment of pre and post-registration nurses within the team, to develop their competence and skills. Including induction and preceptorship of new staff.
Provide consistency through collaborative clinical leadership to their team with Community Education Leads across the care group. Embedding a learning culture underpinned evidence based practice.

Takes a lead in specialist areas and complex caseload management, providing advice and support to others to undertake community nursing care, including but not limited to:

Promoting independence/self-management
Maintaining safety including/safeguarding awareness/incident reporting
Improvement in health and wellbeing including mental health
Interventions in disease/condition management
Prevention and reducing of health inequalities
Admission avoidance including frequently users of acute services
Supported early discharge from hospital (appropriate to the service)
Case management/ treatment /care plans
Palliative and end of life care
Complex decision making
Management of complex wounds
Will utilise a range of available and emerging technology to support the service user to manage and monitor their condition; including virtual consultations and