Senior Community Nurse

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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

• RGN / RN with current registration
• Evidence of recent and continuing post-registration professional education and training
• Practice supervisor/assessor training

Desirable criteria

• Has undertaken formal training in staff and team management
• Nurse prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of recent post-registration nursing experience
• Experience of negotiating and liaising within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working with people with complex health needs
• Experience of supervising junior staff and co-ordinating a team on a day to day, regular basis
• Experience of teaching students and other staff members
• Experience of implementing evidence-based care in practice
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive health needs assessment and writing care plans

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing staff
• Post-registration community nursing experience

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of: • Principles of care for patients with long term conditions, based on local/national guidelines and standards
• NMC Code of Professional Conduct and application to practice
• Appraisal and Personal Development Planning
• Understanding of NHS and Integrated Care boards structures
• Leading audit process
• 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
• Ability to work in a team
• Has high level competence in a range of clinical skills
• 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 risk assess a situation and act appropriately • Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Able to identify own and others learning and development needs and actively seek ways to meeting those needs
• Basic computer skills

Other 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 provide evidence of where you have demonstrated the Trust's Values and Behaviours
• Able to demonstrate excellence in Customer Service

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, 544.3KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)