Job description
Welcome to Locala Health and Wellbeing – proud to provide NHS community healthcare services across Kirklees, Calderdale and Bradford. We help people have better lives – and you can too.
- Flexible working - We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
- Generous pension – We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
- Agenda for Change pay scales and holiday allowances – We are committed to the AfC scales for all colleagues and acknowledge all existing NHS length of service.
- Development opportunities – We have a nursing framework and offer a range of development opportunities in all roles.
- A say in how things are done – We are a membership-based, colleague-owned organisation. Join us and you immediately become a member with opportunities to be involved and have your say.
Are you a healthcare professional who wants to work with patients in their own homes to maximise their independence?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join Locala’s new Self-Management Service.
The self-management service works towards the NHS’ Long-Term Plan for personalised care, patients will be reviewed both at home and virtually whilst working towards becoming experts in their own health care interventions.
Your main role will be to facilitate learning and competence for patients, ensuring they feel confident and able to optimise their skills, maximising the benefits of self-management. The role will require you to work across all Kirklees PCNs.
The successful candidate will:
- Have experience of community-based care
- Be passionate about patient’s choices, their abilities to self-manage, and personalised care.
- Work under the direction of a team leader, managing their own patient lists, reviewing patients both at home and virtually whilst supporting them towards becoming experts in their own health care interventions.
- Have excellent interpersonal skills, be able to organise their workload effectively, work well as part of a team, whilst also being motivated to expand their knowledge base and work autonomously.
- Be willing to undertake training around health coaching, shared decision making and the personalised care agenda as well as the core clinical skills required.
- Utilising support services throughout Kirklees, the candidate will support the provision of personalised high-quality care, ensuring better patient outcomes, and positively influencing service change.
Job description & Person specification
For further information please contact Helen Arnold, District Nurse Sister