Lead Specialist Practitioner (District Nursing)

For detailed JD and PS please see attached documents. The post holder must hold the Specialist Practice District Nurse Qualification and hold a prescribing qualification.

Duties include

• -Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care and treatment for housebound service users with complex physical, psychological and social needs. -Managing and co-ordinating a caseload of service users with complex physical health needs that require multi-systems health assessment; have multiple co-morbidities and may have social and mental health needs that influence their treatment plans. This may at times include co-ordination of MDT meetings. -Have an understanding of the demographics and population profile of their attached PCN/locality. Acting as a key stakeholder working with system partners to ensure the physical health needs of the population are met and work to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital. -Collaborate with the Clinical Education Lead in developing training and practice. Providing support, mentorship and assessment of pre and post-registration nurses within the team, to develop their competence and skills. Including induction and preceptorship of new staff. -Takes a lead in specialist areas and complex caseload management, providing advice and support to others to undertake community nursing care, including but not limited to: Promoting independence/self-management Maintaining safety including/safeguarding awareness/incident reporting Improvement in health and wellbeing including mental health Interventions in disease/condition management Prevention and reducing of health inequalities Admission avoidance including frequently users of acute services Supported early discharge from hospital (appropriate to the service) Case management/ treatment /care plans Palliative and end of life care Complex decision making Management of complex wounds -To monitor the skill mix in the team to enable safe delegation of nursing care in line with NMC guidance. Working closely with the operational lead for the team to support effective workforce planning. -The post holder will participate in service developments as a member of the community nursing team and wider primary care network, and will be a key stakeholder in the development of place based partnership working. -Work in collaboration with Operational and General Managers providing clinical expertise and decision making support as part of the leadership team to ensure best practice and patient safety are be maintained.