Senior Community 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

Barnet Unplanned Integrated service works primarily as an admission avoidance service reducing the number of patients sent to hospital Emergency departments. We receive referrals from GP, LAS, 111, Residential and Nursing Homes to prevent admission of patients and support immediate discharge home from the emergency departments.

The Unplanned service also supports the early discharge home of patients on the D2A pathway 1 taking patients from the local acute hospitals.

We are a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Nurse Practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapist, Rehabilitation Support Workers, and Technical Instructors with administrator support. This is an expanding admissions avoidance service working with both the primary care and the acute sectors to support and deliver treatment to patients in their own home. We are currently looking for a motivated and committed Band 6 nurses to join our team.

Main duties of the job

Candidates should be experienced nurse with sound clinical knowledge and proven experience in acute and community clinical environments. You will need to be adaptable to operate in a fast moving environment and have the clinical skills and ability to function as a lone worker in a larger team. Candidates should have excellent communication skills; and the ability to provide care as determined by the clinical assessments. Candidates will have undertaken professional development and have extended nursing skills, with evidence to support this. CLCH offers excellent training opportunities and we can support staff to complete the Non-Medical Prescribing course and Advanced Nurse practitioner course. The role requires travel around the local community you will need to have a full drivers licence and access to a car. The service covers 8am - 10pm working 7 days per week. The shift patterns are 8am - 4pm and 2pm - 10pm fulltime including weekend working

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

• To provide skilled, effective and evidence based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings.
• o assess referrals made to service, prioritise and respond according to priority, as appropriate both in terms of level and urgency. To respond within agreed timescales as appropriate.
• o use enhanced skills and knowledge to assess physical and psycho social needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with patients, carers and the wider Multidisciplinary Team as needed.
• To make risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of patients' ability to stay at home, or return home safely from another care setting, providing and arranging necessary nursing and supportive packages.

Please refer to Job description and personal Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Full, valid UK driving licence
• Evidence of recent and continuing post-registration professional education and training

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in Primary Care/ Accident & Emergency
• Experience of assessing and providing quality care to people with Long Term Conditions
• Qualifications in Community and/ or Accident and Emergency Nursing.
• Qualification in teaching or practice-based learning
• Physical Clinical Assessment Skills Course or willingness to undertake the course.
• Nurse prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of recent substantial post-registration nursing experience
• Extensive range of clinical skills and experience including IV therapy
• Vene-puncture, cannulation, rehabilitation
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working with people with complex health needs
• Experience of supervising junior staff and co-ordinating daily activities on a regular basis
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive health needs assessment and writing care plans

Desirable criteria

• Experience of implementing evidence-based care in practice

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of implementing evidence-based care in practice
• Ability to work in a team
• Able to work without direct supervision, planning and prioritising own workload and that of others.
• Able to delegate work effectively and safely.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to risk assess a situation and act appropriately
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to identify own and others learning, and development needs and actively seek ways to meet those needs.
• Basic IT skills including use of Microsoft Office package and email.
• Principles of care for patients with long term conditions, relevant NSFs and other national standards
• NMC Code of Professional Conduct and application to practice
• Personal Development Planning
• Primary Health Care - structures and roles (overview)
• Primary Health Care - structures and roles (overview)
• Applying evidence-based care into practice
• The principles of clinical governance and application to practice.
• Clinical supervision - purpose and application
• Managing difficult situations and conflict resolution
• How equal opportunities can be implemented in practice

Desirable criteria

• How equal opportunities can be implemented in practice

Key Attributes

Essential criteria

• Able to carry out the duties of the post with or without adaptations
• Able to travel around the district (car/bike/public transport/foot)
• Able to work flexible shifts
• Able to provide evidence of where you have demonstrated the Trust's Values and Behaviours
• Able to demonstrate excellence in Customer Service
• Able to meet the required IT Skills for the post
• Car Driver owner with UK licence

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 and person specification (PDF, 696.3KB)
• Trust values (PDF, 720.3KB)