District Nurse
East Dorset District Nursing Team
Ferndown Team, Ferndown Health Clinic, St Mary's Road, Ferndown, BH22 9HB
Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00
£25ph Weekdays
Your role will be to lead the team and case manage the provision of care within an individual's home or residential home, including palliative care and long term conditions management. You will work autonomously using your own initiative to deliver holistic care to adults with physical health needs.
You should possess excellent leadership abilities, interpersonal skills and time management skills. You should have experience in caseload management and be able to prioritise work. The role is diverse, challenging and extremely rewarding.
Roles and Responsibilities
The team have a breadth of experience and a shared goal to offer the highest standard of care to our patients. We work closely with other health and social care professionals across primary and secondary care, as well as with patients, families and carers in their own home.
To provide a high quality person centred approach to care delivery which always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity.
To provide specialist care and interventions, assessments, treatments and managing patients on a caseload, as part of the wider multi-disciplinary care team.
To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients / service users.
To devise specialist programmes of care for other professionals to deliver and ensure they are delivered appropriately.
To plan, implement and review health improvement programmes in a range of settings.
Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to staff, students and trained practitioners.
We offer a £250 bonus for starting this contract this will be paid out to you after 150 hours completed (4 Weeks)
If you know anyone who may be interested in the position we can also offer a £250 referral fee
If this role is of interest, please just respond to this advert with an up to date copy of your CV or call Jake on .