District Nursing Service Lead

This post for the District Nurse Service Leadership Team is an exciting opportunity for an individual to work alongside the existing District Nurse Service Lead to lead, manage and develop the Community District Nurse service.
We are seeking a highly motivated District Nurse with the aptitude, motivation, and leadership skills, to drive local and National changes and integration within community nursing. You will lead DN community nursing teams, working closely with the acute hospital, GPs, and Practice Nurses to ensure high quality care for the local population to ensure effective, efficient, safe, and high-quality nursing care for patients and carers.
Community Services are currently undergoing significant change in the delivery of community services to continuously improve patient care and outcomes, meet workforce demands, prevent inappropriate hospital admissions, and facilitate early discharge. The successful candidate will work with their Nursing Team leads to maintain capacity across community services to help achieve this. The post holder will work closely with the Community Nursing Services Lead to ensure the service is working in line with the service level agreements, Performance is achieved in terms of, KPIs, Finance, HR, Risk and Governance.
Please contact Community Nursing Services Lead Gurdees Watson for further information., The post holder will have extensive experience and knowledge in managing clinical governance including incidents, risk registers and audits.
The post holder will lead the District Nursing Teams, being the first point of contact both from an internal and external perspective. You will be responsible for a wide range of general and operational management issues aimed at managing health economy flow and supporting "home first". This will be achieved through close liaison with General Practice, Community Lead for AHP and Nursing Services, Nurse Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals, ICTs, etc.
The post-holder will have the following key objectives:
+ To lead the District Nursing Service and its clinical capacity to maintain flow.
+ To support the achievement of corporate targets.
+ To play a key role in the economy escalation processes.
+ To provide effective accountable leadership, clinical and operational support.
+ Ensure effective service provision in line with operational requirements., We are committed to equal opportunities and want to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and diverse groups. It is essential we understand our demographics, in order that we can monitor our performance as an equal opportunity employer, as well as continuing to embed a culture of inclusivity across the organisation, which supports the active participation and contribution of our diverse staff groups in the Trusts decision making processes . On application the shortlisting manager will not see this criterion and therefore it cannot be part of their decision making. Please ensure you complete your equal opportunities questions for us and help us to make sure everyone is welcome.
The Trust is committed to employing and supporting people with disabilities. It is the Trust's policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum 'essential' criteria as identified on the person specification. To ensure we know you have a disability, please inform us under the appropriate section on the application form. We welcome applications from the LGBTQ+ community and openly encourage people with different sexual orientation, gender identity and expression to apply to join our team. We promise to respect and encourage the use of all pronouns and will not purposefully mis-gender anyone.
We are governed by the public sector equality duties and by our values of Care, Respect and Responsibility to ensure we eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other behaviour that is unlawful, undermines our core values and/or falls short of our Behaviour Framework. We want all of our staff to 'call out' any behaviour from colleagues, patients or visitors that constitutes the above and appropriate action be taken.
We will, at every opportunity, advance equality and inclusivity for all staff, at all levels within the organisation, by removing or minimising disadvantage, encouraging participation and taking all relevant steps to meet the needs of anyone who shares a protected characteristic. We will also foster good relations between persons who share a protected characteristic by tackling prejudice and promoting understanding at every opportunity.
We have staff Networks in place to help support staff experience of diverse staff groups and inform us on the actions, interventions and support what we need to put in place to improve the working lives and daily experiences of all colleagues and all teams. Anyone can join the networks and we take pride in having Allies as part of every network within the organisation.
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Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Please note, preference will be given to at risk employees.
Applicants MUST ensure that they provide details of their referees and their referee email addresses on their application form otherwise their application may not be considered.
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At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.

As part of the NHS People Promise, your wellbeing is our priority, and we are committed to ensuring our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance supported by our flexible working options and by making reasonable adjustments where possible. We believe no-one should have to sacrifice family, friends, or their personal interests for work. We are a modern employer able to attract and retain high quality staff through our commitment to the NHS People Promise.
As an employer, we foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to contribute their best. We want to ensure that our workforce is representative of the population we serve. More information - inclusive practice people promise.
Dudley Group offer many opportunities for our staff to develop and grow within their roles through our Learning & OD Team. These include topics such as communication, wellbeing, team development, cultural competency, and values.
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