District Nurse Team Leader; Twilight DN Service

Job Overview

12 month Secondment Opportunity
- District Nurse Team Leader
- Band 7 (Qualified DNSPQ) - Hillingdon Twilight DN Service. An exciting opportunity has arisen for qualified District Nurse with relevant experience including community nursing to join our Hillingdon Twilight District Nursing Team.

Our forward-thinking District Nursing teams are committed to the delivery of high-quality patient care.

As a Twilight District Nurse Team Leader, you will play an integral part in leading the delivery and development of the service. This is an ideal role for an experienced District Nurse or a newly Specialist Qualified District Nurse looking to further develop their leadership skills and relevant experience including Community Nursing.

The successful candidate will have significant experience of nursing at a Band 6 level or above and an understanding of community nursing is essential.

The post holder will provide management support and professional nurse leadership to all members of the Twilight DN nursing team. They will work with Senior Nurses in developing, implementing and reviewing any new initiatives involving District Nursing services and motivate staff to effect any necessary change.

The post holder will have to manage a clinical caseload, which will be GP attached. The caseload will consist of house bound patients but there are sites where commissioned wound clinics are also held.

The post holder will hold responsibility for all staff in their designated team where clinical and managerial support is paramount to the team and service development. The role also consists of change management where the DN Team Lead will support his / her own team to embed change positively.

As a District Nurse Team Lead, you will work within an integrated service including specialist care teams such as palliative, tissue viability, bladder and bowel, cardiac, neurology, diabetes, rapid response and specialist therapy teams such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy. The Twilight District Nursing service is also supported by the core daytime District Nursing service. All community services strive to work collaboratively to ensure individualised patient centred care alongside support from our GP colleagues and practices.

CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing integrated high quality, innovative healthcare. Our track record in recruiting only the best people is well known and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

Hillingdon is the second largest London borough by area, located 14 miles west of Central London. We are also leaders in developing our Hillingdon Health & Care Partnership working, united to enable shared services and Neighbourhood working across the whole of Hillingdon Borough. As we have Heathrow airport within our boundaries, it is thought that we are the gateway to the UK!

• Great team working and a supportive environment
• Outer London Weighting
• Training and career development opportunities
• Opportunities for research and audit to support innovative practice
• Intensive support from an assigned mentor and induction period.
• Open to flexible working patterns
• Personalised Clinical and Management Supervision
• DNTL Developmental Days
• Multi-disciplinary team working with other CNWL specialities
• Support from the Lead Nurses the DN Clinical Facilitator

• Act as a role model in expert practice facilitating and supporting the delivery of effective patient care by use of clinical judgement and decision making skills.
• Responsible for ensuring the Twilight District Nursing teams develop appropriate plans of care for individual patients, families/carers or patient groups.
• To take continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for and with individual and their families.
• Lead the production of health profiles, formulate objectives and set priorities within the caseload.
• Develop…