Job summary
Are you currently an experience nurse, District Nurse Locality Lead or an Advanced District Nurse Specialist looking for your next leadership opportunity?

As part of this transformation around the centralisation of the Triage Desk, we are recruiting for a new permanent District Nursing Lead for the Triage Desk.

This role offers a unique chance to shape and lead a newly established team within the District Nursing service, driving forward the triage function and enhancing service delivery. Based in Abingdon and part of the South localities leadership team, we're seeking a self-motivated and flexible individual with strong leadership and communication skills, and a passion for service development. If you're ready to take the next step in your career and help define the future of district nursing triage, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• To provide strong, integrated clinical leadership and management of the District Nursing Duty Desk team.
• To lead on the educational agenda in the area, and to lead on specific educational work streams.
• To lead on service development in the District Nursing team, which will be particularly important for a new team without established ways of working.
• To act as a conduit between the integrated leadership team and the District Nursing team.
• To be accountable for the management, development and supervision of identified staff within the team.

Please contact Kay Woodward or Harriet Baker if you would like to discuss the role.

About us
You will have an opportunity to work with supportive teams and committed colleagues.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential

• Evidence of leading within and across teams, including multi-disciplinary and cross organisational working
• Experience of planning and delivering teaching programmes and staff educational needs analysis
• Budgetary and resource management.

Desirable

• Evidence of participation in service review and facilitating change in the delivery of clinical services

Qualifications
Essential

• Current DNLL or ADNS

Skills
Essential

• IT literate with intermediate key board skills
• Well-developed written skills.
• Ability to develop and sustain relationships with partner organisations and the public

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.