District Nurse

Are you a Qualified District Nurse looking for a new challenge? Are you caring, ambitious, forward thinking & values driven? Are you passionate about delivering safe, effective and compassionate care to patients in the place they call home?

We are looking for a dynamic, passionate, and committed District Nurse with experience of caseload management and multi-disciplinary working, together with excellent communication skills, resilience and great leadership skills with the ability to motivate and support others through change in order to enable us to maintain the delivery of high quality, compassionate, proactive and safe care.

We currently have a District Nurse vacancy for the Wakefield/Pontefract area of our District Nursing Networks. The established teams of qualified District Nurses, Senior Nurses, Community Staff Nurses, Nursing Associates and Healthcare Support Workers work autonomously to provide high quality nursing care to patients predominantly in a place they call home or a clinic setting.

This is an exciting time to join our District Nursing service, as we continue to develop in response to the changing needs of communities, and are starting developing our Integrated Neighbourhood Teams., Working as part of the District Nursing team you will develop extensive clinical assessment and case management skills. District Nursing teams work closely with their community colleagues to maintain patients independence at home by utilising their excellent networks with our partners and voluntary agencies in local communities, planning and delivering complex packages of care.

The post holder is responsible for managing and leading a team to ensure provision of high quality care to clients across the district. The post holder will work within a District Nursing team utilising their advanced clinical expertise, decision making and problem solving skills to provide skilled nursing care for patients within their own home or clinic setting.

The post holder will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients, for the assessment of holistic needs and the implementation of management plans.

The post holder will have a responsibility to empower team members to develop within the organisation by demonstrating the principles of leadership.

Act as an autonomous practitioner, assessing patients physical, social, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs to develop a holistic care plan. Working in collaboration with other health and social care professionals and voluntary agencies to provide a high quality service. If legally authorised, prescribe medications from the agreed formularies, based on efficacy, safety and cost.

We provide care and support to over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, in community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (in Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and the best place to receive care.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.

At Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, we encourage lifelong learning and there is an expectation that you will support pre-registration students, trainee Nursing Associates and District Nursing students within your role. We have excellent electronic facilities to support your learning and development.