Senior Staff Nurse

Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Senior Staff Nurse to join our friendly and innovative District Nursing Team covering Stafford and Surrounds.

We are looking for an experienced Community Nurse to lead our Community Nursing Team. We have a great interest in moving District Nursing forward in line with local population and service needs. You will work alongside our Lead Specialist Practitioners, Operational Leads and District Nurses to provide effective leadership, support staff development and caseload management.

You will work alongside the leadership team to ensure proactive and effective care delivery, liaising and working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure individualised and evidence based care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

You will manage a caseload, alongside the Lead Specialist Practitioner, including over a wide geographical area by providing support and supervision to staff to enable provision of high quality person-centred care to patients within their own homes and clinic settings.

You will hold a key role in building and maintaining excellent working practices with Social Care and Allied Health colleagues within the primary care network.

You will an effective leader, demonstrating care, compassion and empathy and role modelling the Trust values.

You will be competent in a variety of clinical skills, and be able to share your knowledge and expertise with others, signposting to more specialist services as appropriate.

You will be able to engage complex patients, agree mutually beneficial treatment plans and to plan, implement and evaluate care pathways.

You will support with quality assurance, including audit, incident reporting and gaining patient feedback. You will work with the leadership team to evaluate this in line with objectives.

The successful candidate will take responsibility for the planning and delivery of care and the management of staff in the absence of the Clinical Lead/Operational Lead. You must be able to demonstrate managerial and leadership skills and be able to make sound clinical decisions independently.

We are looking for someone with excellent clinical, communication, interpersonal and team skills to work collaboratively across all care settings.

Working for our organisation

Working for MPFT

MPFT provides physical and mental health care, learning disability, and adult social care services across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, and Telford & Wrekin. In addition, we provide services on a wider regional and national basis. We serve a population of 1.5 million and employ around 8,500 members of staff. By joining MPFT you will become part of a diverse and inclusive team who are empowered and supported to deliver care in a way which is consistent with our values:

• putting people at the heart of what we do
• empowering people to improve care and wellbeing
• delivering better health, better care in partnership

All have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

We will support your career development and progression. Membership of the excellent NHS pension scheme, generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave, pay and the option for flexible working. You will receive up to 27 days annual leave (increasing to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.

We are also proud to have a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Essential Qualifications & Training requirements for the post:

• Degree in Nursing or equivalent
• NMC Registration

• Working within District Nursing in a multidisciplinary team
• Caseload management

For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents below.

Person specification

Professional Registration

• NMC Registration

Qualifications and Training

• Degree in nursing
• Post graduate study in relevant subjects

• Mentorship qualification or Practice assessor qualification

Experience

• Understanding of District Nursing and MDT approaches to primary care delivery
• Manage caseload effectively
• Negotiation and conflict management