Job summary
- Main area
- District Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 382-NBC103-26
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackpool Stadium
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Specialist Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
The postholder will work as part of a community nursing service working across the Fylde coast, overseeing/supervising the provision of nursing interventions in patients’ homes or clinic settings.
Main duties of the job
COMMUNICATION
Communicate sensitive information, demonstrate effective communication and documentation, handle information/data in line with national and local policies and legislation.
PROFESSIONAL
Display a personal commitment to professional standards and ethical practice.
To assess, plan and evaluate individual patient requirements, implement treatment regimes and prescribe when appropriate in line with Trust guidelines.
Facilitate achieving measurable standards of care and participate in clinical audit and caseload reviews.
CARE DELIVERY
Deliver holistic, person-centred nursing care to housebound patients and clinic patients who fall under the agreed service specification.
Ensure the rights of individuals are held and facilitate the resolution of any conflict.
Safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children.
TEAM WORK AND LEADERSHIP
Support quality improvement and optimisation of resources to improve services and promote equity in access to services.
Participate in appraisal process and Personal Development Plans.
EDUCATIONAL
Undertake the role of mentor and preceptor.
Encourage reflective practice, use of professional portfolios, MURRS documents, and critical incident analysis.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Apply critical analytical skills in research/audit/service improvement context.
Adhere to ethical, legal, governance and quality assurance frameworks that pertain to research development and innovation.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents – it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY:
The postholder will work as part of a community nursing service working across the Fylde coast, overseeing/supervising the provision of nursing interventions in patients’ homes or clinic settings.
To manage a caseload of patients with highly complex needs using evidence base and patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To provide safe, effective, individualised care to patients and to give support to families and service users requiring scheduled and unscheduled care interventions.
Work in collaboration with colleagues and key stakeholders, ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated multi agency service. This includes planning, delivering, evaluating and development of the services for which they are responsible.
To facilitate the monitoring of the health needs of patients on a continual basis in partnership with colleagues, families and carers, and referrals to others for reassessment, when required.
To ensure delivery of improved condition management strategies, incorporating multi professional groups through the standardisation of assessment and referral processes and to ensure access to associated support services through appropriate, timely referral.
Ensure that all relevant information is cascaded to all staff on a regular and timely basis, providing the opportunity for feedback as appropriate.
Attend appropriate meetings / events as required and provide the necessary feedback.
Undertake supervision of identified staff, including their personal development plan, and appraisal completion.
Hold a defined clinical caseload (if appropriate), co-ordinate admissions and discharges, for patients registered to specific GP surgeries.
Oversee the assessment, planning and implementation of patient care. Ensuring the maintenance and timely completion of associated clinical records.
To report and assist in investigation of patient complaints and/or relevant incidents and implement lessons learned action plans following Trust policy.
Provide leadership and operational management of a community nursing team, supporting, supervising and managing staff; in conjunction with the Team Leader.
Provide direct patient care to patient with complex needs and health concerns.
Contribute to the development of nursing services within the division.
Provide clinical supervision for members of the nursing team.
Responsibility for the leadership and implementation of services including managing issues relating to performance management and compliance with Care Quality Commission standards.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Clinical qualification to degree level or equivalent/Registered nurse
- Training and experience in clinical management
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Current NMC registration
- V300 Non-medical prescriber or willingness to complete
- Community Specialist Practitioner qualification
- Training & experience in clinical management
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years experience at band 6 in the community
- Experience in leading at senior level
- Experience in change management & implementing change
- Able to deal with difficult situations
- Involvement in complaint & investigation management
- Ability to Identify and assess patients’ complex needs.
- Demonstrate an understanding of clinical governance & safety/quality initiatives pertaining to the role
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Facilitating the management of conflict
- Facilitating/chairing meetings
- Experience of HR processes
- Experience in performance management
SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
- Ability to facilitate good interpersonal skills within the team
- Ability to organise self and others by prioritising and delegating as needed
- Ability to work unsupervised using own initiative
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to facilitate education
- Report writing skills
- Competent with Microsoft Office and data collection systems
- Ability to interpret and present data
- Ability to work unsupervised using own initiative
- Clinical audit knowledge & experience & implementation of audit action plans
- Able to demonstrate a high standard of clinical practice & expertise to meet service need
- Ability to confidently make decisions based on evidence based practice
- Relevant NHS and local authority policies/ agendas
- Advanced communication skills
- Motivated with strong leadership skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to interpret & present data
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
- Laura Dolan
- Job title
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 956780
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