Senior Nurse

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Degree/Diploma in Adult Nursing
• Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with relevant professional body NMC
• Evidence of post registration education / leadership courses including appraisals

Desirable criteria

• Advanced Nurse Practitioner qualification
• Mentorship, student supervisor qualification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working and delivering healthcare to patients with complex needs or hard to serve service users in the community.
• Evidence of theoretical knowledge and practical experience in a wide variety of clinical areas within secondary and primary care
• Experience assessing, planning and implementing care plans
• Experience of providing evidence-based care in the community
• Recent evidence of liaising and negotiating with system partners to facilitate quality outcomes for patients
• 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.
• Recent examples of service innovation and change management experience.
• Experience of using a range of Clinical / IT systems
• Experience of working with MDT and System partners across organisational boundaries
• Working knowledge of National policies and procedures across health and social care and its implementation or application

Desirable criteria

• Quality and performance management experience
• Project Management qualification and experience

Skills, Abilities and Attributes

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal skills and flexible working practice
• Excellent written and verbal presentation skills
• Ability to work autonomously, set priorities and be confident in decision making.
• Excellent organisational skills
• Demonstrate ability in team leadership responsibilities.
• Ability to interpret National regulations for data protection and record keeping and to develop local systems to ensure these are maintained
• High standard of clinical expertise and decision-making skills
• Up to date knowledge and understanding of Health and Social Care agenda and Health inequalities priorities.
• Working knowledge of Health and social care policies and procedures and application within the community
• Knowledge and understanding Clinical Governance and evidenced based care.
• Knowledge and experience of clinical audits, research, and service innovations
• Good Communication Skills and I.T skills
• Excellent Numeracy skills
• Leadership skills and ability to motivate MDT
• Good understanding of clinical audits research and change management /service improvements
• Knowledge and understanding of the benefits of Clinical supervision.
• Understanding and Commitment to equal opportunities
• NMC Code of Professional Conduct and application to practice.
• Ability to manage complex situations and conflict resolution.
• Up to date knowledge and understanding of safeguarding issues.
• Hold a full, valid, UK driving license and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

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, 480.3KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)