District Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse

Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £42,939 to £50,697 a year pa inc
The closing date is 05 February 2025

Job summary

District Nursing Sister, Band 6 Greenwich DN Teams Permanent; Full Time – 37.5 hrs per week

We are seeking to appoint an innovative Community District Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse. You must hold the District Nurse Specialist Practitioner Qualification. You will manage a District Nursing team within the Greenwich Directorate of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

The successful candidates will be part of a progressive and supportive team located in South East London. Our District Nursing Service delivers care to a diverse population across the borough of Greenwich.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, conscientious, adaptable manager and team player with highly developed nursing skills.

You must be able to work on your own initiative. Previous clinical team management experience is essential.

In our district nursing teams, due to the requirement to be able to travel between patients’ homes in a timely manner, a full UK driver’s licence is essential as well as access to a car for work purposes.

You will be committed to the development of the team through effective leadership and be given the opportunity to develop your own clinical skills through the delivery of a wide range of evidence based care and an active personal development plan.

These posts are not suitable for RMN or Learning Disability nurses.

Job responsibilities

  • To assess, plan, implement and provide regular evaluation of health care needs in conjunction with patients, their carers and other appropriate members of the multidisciplinary team.
  • Prioritisation, organisation and appropriate delegation of the responsibilities and workloads within the team will be required to ensure efficient and effective service provisions.
  • To be responsible for the caseload management of patients within the practice population.
  • To be responsible for keeping up to date with current issues and events in Primary Health Care.
  • To actively participate and influence the developments of Community nursing services.
  • To provide support and health education programmes for patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.
  • To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the trust as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.
  • To work alongside other members of the multidisciplinary team e.g. attend meetings of Primary Health Care Team.
  • To ensure own mandatory training and team members mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Trust policies.
  • Ability to use Information Technology including Word, email and the internet and RIO.
  • Participation in complaint investigations, when requested.

Person Specification

BSc specialist Practice DN

Essential

  • achieved

Desirable

  • Knowledge & Skills

Communication

Essential

  • achieved

Mentor/ practice assessor

Essential

  • Experience

Desirable

  • recognised teaching qualification

2 years CSN

Essential

  • experience in DN team

Desirable

  • knowledge of safeguarding

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).