District Nursing Team Leader - Knowsley, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Knowsley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The service operates 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to cover our 8am-8pm 7 days a week model.

Shortlisting is planned for: 29 March 2023

Interviews are planned for: 5th April 2023

The post holder will have continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload. They will be responsible for the continuity of care and be the lead person for communication to identified stakeholders.

The primary function of the role is to provide proactive, responsive services that address the anticipatory and maintenance care needs of the patients/clients within the defined caseload.

This will be done via a holistic assessment of care needs and the provision of clinical care for patients/clients with acute and chronic highly complex needs.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

CHC Experience

Wound / pressure Ulcer / Leg Ulcer comps

Catheter experience

Palliative experience / Syringe driver experience

Experience in report writing

Supporting staff with development

Experience of supporting complex patients

Good time management and organisational skills

Provide robust holistic assessments to patients with complex needs

Work with the wider MDT

Caseload management

Interpersonal communication skills, relevant to student learning and assessment
Conducting objective, evidence based assessments of students
Providing constructive feedback to facilitate professional development in others, and
Knowledge of the assessment process and their role within it.
Have an understanding of the proficiencies and programme outcomes that he student they assess is aiming to achiev

For full details please see attached job description.