Lead Neighbourhood Nurse Manager

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Due to reorganisation within the division, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, proactive, compassionate leader to join our Community Team as the Lead Nurse.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Neighbourhood Nurse Management team and the Head of Nursing to maintain high levels of quality and safety and to provide high level support and leadership to our high functioning teams.

Main duties of the job

The Community Lead Nurse's key responsibility is to provide viable, accessible leadership to all areas within their given areas of responsibility,

The Community Nurse Lead will support the community nursing teams to promote excellence in nursing care to maintain and improve clinical standards. The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond.

The Community Nurse Lead will ensure that the patient experience is of the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility, and surveillance. The post holder will be expected to work clinically for an agreed 20% of their time and where required will be a specialist in their clinical area.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Lead Neighbourhood Nurse Manager's key responsibility is to provide viable, accessible leadership to all clinical areas within their given areas of responsibility,

The Lead Neighbourhood Nurse Manager will support the Community Nursing teams and Senior Nurses to promote excellence in nursing care to maintain and improve clinical standards and support the care of patients in their homes. The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond. He/she will promote best practice in the prevention of infection through ensuring a clean and safe environment, and that clinical practices are in accordance with Trust policy and best practice guidelines to minimise the risk of infection.

Through line management of the Neighbourhood Nurse Managers and working in close collaboration with other clinical colleagues, lead the delivery and expansion of an expert Community Nursing service across the organisation. The post holder will lead on advancing the body of knowledge through education, research and audit with the aim of improving access to treatment services.

The Lead Neighbourhood Nurse Manager will ensure that the patient experience is of the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility, and surveillance. The post holder will be expected to work clinically for an agreed 20% of their time and where required will be a specialist in their clinical area.

The Divisional Directors, the General Manager and the Heads of Nursing lead each Directorate. The Lead Neighbourhood Nurse Manager will report directly to their Head of Nursing who has overarching responsibility for the operational management and strategic direction of nursing.

This post will include working and travelling to all hospital and community sites.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• Registered nurse qualification Degree or equivalent clinical/advanced practice and significant post registration experience.
• Post registration qualification or equivalent experience in specialty. Masters Degree or working towards

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of post registration/ qualification Management/Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Clinical expertise relevant to the post Experience of managing staff Senior clinical experience within speciality. Leadership of clinical governance and patient safety
• Achievement of high quality patient care through evidence based practice Management of finances within a budget, including delivery of cost improvements
• Management/Clinical Leadership experience. Experience of successfully leading and implementing change Experience in analysing complex problems and implementing workable solutions

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• A good understanding of the changing NHS environment Highly developed written and verbal skills
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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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

• candidate information pack Job description and person Specification (PDF, 430.8KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)