Job Title: Band 6 Senior District Nurse (RGN)
Location: Guernsey
Type: Permanent
Salary: £43,954 - £59,343 per annum
Job Summary:
Sanctuary Personnel is seeking a Specialist Nurse Practitioner to join our client's multidisciplinary Adult Community Services team. The successful candidate will work closely with the District Nurse Team Lead to manage a defined caseload within a specific geographical area. This role involves supporting, leading, and managing a team of nurses to deliver high-quality patient care. As a Specialist Practitioner, you will provide clinical advice to the District Nursing Service and multidisciplinary community teams, ensuring effective inter-professional collaboration with other specialist nurses.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the assessment, development, implementation, and monitoring of health and social care, ensuring the highest standards of care and service delivery in home and clinical settings.
- Assess, prescribe, and evaluate treatments independently or in partnership with other prescribers.
- Collaborate with the District Nurse Team Lead to meet team and service objectives.
- Act as an assessor and supervisor for students, and preceptor for newly qualified staff.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients, carers, and the Health and Social Care Team, including statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Manage patients with chronic diseases, utilizing the nursing process for planning, implementation, and evaluation of care programs within a multidisciplinary team.
- Support, guide, and teach relatives/carers to provide adequate care between visits, promoting patient comfort and rehabilitation.
- Assist the Team Lead in supervising and reviewing the practice of qualified and unqualified staff, including conducting appraisals for band 5 staff and below.
- Ensure effective communication between hospital specialist staff and community nursing teams.
- Adhere to the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Code of Professional Conduct and local frameworks for professional practice.
- Undertake nursing procedures as per the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures.
- Act as duty nurse for adult community services when required.
- Demonstrate and support staff in remote mobile working.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Provide direction as a named assessor or supervisor, facilitating students and learners in completing approved competency programmes.
- Act as a facilitator for nursing staff, offering opportunities to achieve learning contract objectives.
- Manage the caseload and delegate work within the team.
- Maintain and develop personal skills to promote evidence-based practice.
- Supervise patients, offering professional advice and guidance as needed.
- Recognise limitations and refer to experienced nurses or multidisciplinary team members when necessary.
- Participate in the line management of the community nursing team, including organizing staff rotas and managing staffing levels, absence monitoring, and disciplinary procedures.
Clinical Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain skills required for advanced practice, including wound care, palliative care, venous sampling, and urinary catheterisation.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers to ensure understanding of conditions and treatments.
- Provide care for chronically sick and terminally ill patients, offering advice and support to relatives in the home.
- Promote patient independence and support carers in providing care between visits.
- Undertake clinical assessments and patient needs assessments in all localities.
- Prescribe in accordance with guidelines and within scope of practice and competence.
Professional Responsibilities:
- Communicate complex patient-related information to ensure collaborative working with specialist nurses and the multidisciplinary team.
- Evaluate work and practices through evidence-based projects and audits, supporting changes in clinical practice and new working methods.
- Identify and address personal and professional development needs.
- Adhere to the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct and local policies.
- Act on potential vulnerable adult/child abuse according to local policy.
- Provide specialist nursing advice to other professionals and agencies to promote best practice and appropriate care.
Organisational Responsibilities:
- Support the Team Lead in prioritising work areas, balancing patient-related and professional demands.
- Coordinate team workload, staff meetings, rotas, training days, and manage sickness and absences.
- Respond effectively to unpredictable problems and issues within the service.
- Manage personal time and workload effectively, overseeing a chronic patient caseload.
Managerial Responsibilities:
- Conduct individual performance reviews and clinical supervision.
- Participate in the recruitment and selection of new staff and future manpower planning.
- Support the Team Lead in monitoring and evaluating clinical protocols, guidelines, and standards.
- Deputize for the Team Lead in their absence.
Health and Safety:
- Adapt to unpredictable, hazardous working environments.
- Maximise personal and others' safety when working as a lone practitioner.
- Inform staff of new and revised policies, procedures, guidelines, and directives.
- Report accidents and incidents appropriately and complete relevant documentation.
- Follow safe moving and handling policies and participate in risk management strategies.
Revalidation:
- Maintain effective registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) and adhere to revalidation requirements.
- Manage revalidation requirements proactively, including maintaining a portfolio and seeking opportunities for reflection and professional growth.
- Assist colleagues with revalidation, providing support and participating in professional discussions.
- Escalate any issues related to revalidation requirements to a senior nurse or midwife promptly.
Key Criteria:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Registered Nurse
- Teaching/mentoring qualification or VQ Assessor’s Award
- Specialist Nurse Practitioner qualification in District Nursing with V100, V150, or V300 Non-Medical Prescribing
Essential:
- Specialist knowledge of older people acquired through training and experience
- Valid driving licence
- Ability to work with a range of health and social care professionals and autonomously
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Ability to work required hours, including on-call service
- Dedication to improving community care services
- Basic IT skills and knowledge of Microsoft Word
Apply now through Sanctuary Personnel.
