[ref. u40958224] Community Team Leader | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Exciting Opportunity in District Nursing
We invite a qualified Band 6 nurse to join our District Nursing Team in Radcliffe, part of a supportive and experienced group in Bury. This role offers a chance to develop your clinical skills in a dynamic, integrated health and social care multidisciplinary team.
Supporting you from recruitment onward, you'll provide high-quality care, advice, and monitoring to patients and their families in community settings. Your responsibilities will include developing Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) initiatives aimed at preventing hospital admissions and facilitating timely discharges.
Working under the direction of the team leader, you’ll care for patients with both complex and non-complex needs, promoting their independence and self-management. Excellent communication skills are essential for collaborating effectively within the co-located health and social care teams.
You will deliver high levels of clinical competence, including thorough assessments of patients, and support the community District Nursing teams.
Join us to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those within our community.
Role Responsibilities
As a District Nurse, you will visit patients in their homes, including residential facilities, to assess and create management plans for complex and acutely unwell patients. Your support will be crucial in delivering unscheduled nursing care.
Key Skills Required
The ideal candidate will possess strong organisational and assessment skills, with the ability to prioritise workloads based on patient needs.
Flexibility and Support
Our service operates 7 days a week, including bank holidays and weekends. Shift patterns can be negotiated to promote a healthy work-life balance.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Thursday 13 Feb 2025