Senior Community Nurse

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• 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 coordinating 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

• Has high level of competence in a range of clinical skills?
• Basic IT skills including use of Microsoft Office package and email
• NMC Code of Professional Conduct and application to practice
• Personal Development Planning o Primary Health Care - structures and roles (overview)
• The audit processes.
• 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

Key Attributes

Essential criteria

• Able to travel around the district (car/bike/public transport/foot) Able to work flexible shifts.
• Able to meet the required IT Skills for the post
• Able to carry out the duties of the post with or without adaptations.

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"

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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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.
Documents to download

• Job description & specifications (PDF, 816.9KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)