Caseload Management Nurse

This Band 6 post sits in the Royston Integrated Community Team at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, leading and supervising a nursing team that works in the community. The work centres on admission prevention and avoidance, with a defined caseload, individualised nursing assessments and care planning, and long-term management of patients. Distinct features are an 8am to 10pm service running seven days a week and a team mixing Band 3 to 7 nurses.

Candidates need a current registration, and a full driving licence with regular car access.

• Lead and supervise the nursing team, setting standards of care and deploying, co-ordinating and supervising nurses and learners
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised nursing care for patients living in the community
• Hold continued responsibility for a defined caseload
• Support a multidisciplinary team delivering clinical health and social care in admission prevention and avoidance
• Take part in the long-term management of patients in the locality
• Keep accurate patient and other records

• Mentor/Preceptor/998 or equivalent
• Specialist nursing practice (district nursing) degree, or willingness to undertake training
• Nurse prescribing, or willingness to undertake training
• Evidence of personal development

• NMC registration as a Registered Nurse

• Evidence of experience at Band 5 community nurse level
• Management of a team
• Management of change within a complex environment
• Experience of teaching others

• Communicating within a multidisciplinary team
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Management of change
• Knowledge of clinical governance and its implications

• Full, valid UK driving licence and access to a car for business use (unless a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 applies)

• Professional development in clinical and leadership programmes