Brent Health Matters Senior Nurse
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Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Central London Community Healthcare Trust have an exciting opportunity for a part time Senior Community Nurse for CYP within the Brent Health Matters clinical service.
The Brent Health Matters (BHM) programme reduces health inequalities in the community by targeting hard to serve and less engaged members of our communities in Brent. The programme has been successfully supporting adults in the community and funding has now been made available to develop a new Children's health inequalities team within the programme to work alongside the very successful service for adults.
The successful candidates will demonstrate flexibility, excellent communication skills and the ability to work as team members as well as using your own initiative. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your clinical and leadership skills and knowledge of reducing health inequalities for children.
The post holder should be able to work as a complex case manager, without direct supervision. You will be involved in delivering integration, working with GPs, social services and the third sector organisations.
You will be providing case management, clinical staff support, mentoring and clinical assessments for CYP who have difficulty accessing healthcare services and with some of the social determinants of health inequalities for the most vulnerable communities. You will be supporting the service at GP practices, community outreach events and where appropriate, supporting healthcare closer to home.
Main duties of the job
We are committed to meeting the needs of modern healthcare and providing the best possible service to our patients; as a result, we have an exciting opportunity, which represents great career opportunities for the right person.
The service currently operates from 09.00 - 17.00hrs, Monday to Friday however the post holder will be required to work some weekends or evenings as the service will align with the wider BHM programme to deliver community engagement events.
The post holder will be a Registered Nurse, with community nursing/specialist practitioner qualification with relevant community experience of managing a complex caseload of patients. You will be responsible for a caseload of patients with complex health and social care needs. You will work autonomously to case manage these clients and use advanced nursing assessment skills, to manage their conditions in the community.
You will work as part of the health inequalities clinical team, working within and across professional and organisational boundaries. Liaising with GPs, other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies you will deliver individualised care to patients.
Community Nursing are the beating heart of our health and care services - we look forward to you working with us!
For further information, please contact:
Tashia Pillay
Service Lead CYP Health Inequalities Team- Brent Children
tashia.pillay@nhs.net
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to job description, personal specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- NMC registered nurse
- Community Nursing /Specialist Practitioner Qualification
- Evidence of post registration education / leadership courses including appraisals
Desirable criteria
- RN (child)
- SCPHN
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner qualification
- Experience in managing childhood Long term conditions, Asthma Mental Health and Childhood immunisations
- Band 6 nursing experience in Children and Young people service.
- Mentorship, student supervisor qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working within adults or children nursing teams in a range of settings
- Experience working with MDT and System partners across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of working and delivering healthcare to patients with complex needs or hard to serve service users in the community.
- Experience assessing, planning and implementing care plans.
- Recent evidence of liaising and negotiating with system partners to facilitate quality outcomes for patients, CYP and families.]
- Experience of organising and managing team caseload.
- Experience of teaching and mentoring junior staff and undertaking appraisals
- Knowledge and experience working within Health Inequalities
- Experience managing long term conditions in the community.
- Partnership working with multi agency/system partners to deliver proactive effective seamless services in the community.
- Evidence of Research Based Practice and service innovation.
- Flexible approach to change and service innovation.
- Recent examples of service innovation and change management experience
- Experience of using a range of Clinical / IT systems
Desirable criteria
- Quality and performance management experience
- Project Management qualification and experience
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)
"We work Flexibly"
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
- Job description & specifications (PDF, 608.3KB)
- CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)