Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 844-6485093
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liscard Community Nurses - Victoria Central Health Centre
- Town
- Wallasey
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/08/2024
Employer heading
Caseload Manager
Band 6
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.
Job overview
Caseload Manager Band 6
An exciting opportunity has arisen for motivated individual to work within the Community Nursing Division as a Community Nursing Caseload Manager, within the Wallasey Locality working with the Liscard Community Nursing Team, based at Victoria Central Hospital, Mill Lane Wallasey.
There has never been a better time to join Wirral Community Health and Care Trust, as we have just received a CQC rating of GOOD with areas in OUTSTANDING. We provide Community Nursing Services over 24 hours that keep our local communities thriving - this is the heart of everything we do.
Main duties of the job
This is a permanent contract .
Hours per week are 37.5, shift hours to be discussed at interview.
This post will be responsible for managing planned programmes of care for patients in domiciliary and clinic settings.
A main part of the role of a Caseload Manager is to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care to patients across the community/primary care interface in the most efficient and clinically effective way, in co-operation with other members of the health and social care teams, and voluntary and statutory agencies.
Working for our organisation
Our Community Nursing Team supports the needs of housebound patients living on the Wirral. We provide valuable care, supporting people to manage their long term conditions, and maximise their independence, which in turn can prevent admission into hospital or enable a quicker discharge if they admitted.
At Wirral Community Health and Care Trust we take pride in our Trust Values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need to be able to work autonomously and as part of a team and possess excellent time management, organisational and communication skills. You will be innovative, flexible and prepared to adapt to the changing needs of the Trust as they arise.
Please see Job Description for full list of the expected duties of the role.
Access to a car for work purposes is essential.
Person specification
Quals +Professional Training
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse educated to degree level (or equivalent)
- Current NMC registration
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification – District Nursing (or equivalent postgraduate modules) or equivalent level nursing qualification/ experience
- Evidence of further recent study/professional development
Desirable criteria
- Independent non-medical prescriber or willing to undertake
- Teaching/Mentorship Qualification
- Clinical diagnostics module (or willing to undertake)
- Clinical examination module (or willing to undertake
- Leadership Qualification – ILM level 6 or equivalent (or willing to work towards) or relevant experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing a caseload/leadership within the community
- Knowledge and experience of managing patients with long term conditions
- Knowledge of tissue viability, including pressure and leg ulcer management
- Knowledge and experience of end of life care
- Knowledge and experience community nursing conditions
- Awareness of Workforce Policies and Procedures
- Evidence/experience of teaching/mentoring
- Experience of Multi-disciplinary working
- Supervisory and/or undertaking clinical supervision experience
- Awareness of professional issues and developments
- Understanding of national government initiatives in health and social care and how they impact on local services
- Experience of clinical assessment, analysis, planning, delivery and evaluation skills
- Ability to manage complex cases
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical audit
- Financial awareness
- Experience of day to day staff management e.g. case allocation
- Demonstrate application of clinical governance
- Knowledge of local services
Skills and attributes
Essential criteria
- All core community nursing competencies
- Evidence of self management , organisation and time management skills
- Leadership skills
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills, written and oral
- Demonstrates negotiation skills through working in partnership with others
- Ability to motivate staff
- Flexibility and adaptability with the capacity to respond positively to changing situations
- Ability to exercise initiative
- Ability to innovate
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet the needs of the service users and the service
- Ability to form positive working relationships with other services, agencies, and providers
- Demonstrable problem solving skills
- Computer literate
Desirable criteria
- Effective change management skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Access to a car for work purposes
- Dexterity for undertaking clinical skills and people moving
- Passion and drive to deliver person centred care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sue Bird
- Job title
- Clinical Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 514 2220
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