Senior Community Staff Nurse

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Main area: Adult Physical Health Community Services

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Secondment: 12 months (For those who are aspiring to join the DN Course)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Week days including one weekend in 4)

Job ref: 410-CPH

Site: Memorial Hospital

Town: London

Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 25/03/:59

Job overview

The post holder will lead a team of nurses and support staff with the responsibility of managing the care for a defined caseload. Community Nurses work as part of a team delivering high quality evidence-based nursing care to clients within their own home, residential homes and clinical environments. As part of a District Nursing team, you will have a role placing emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation as well as curative and palliative care.

The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students, and other health care professionals.

Main duties of the job

• To assess, plan, implement and provide regular evaluation of health care needs in conjunction with patients, their carers, and other appropriate members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Assist in the prioritisation, organisation and appropriate delegation of the responsibilities and workloads within the team to ensure efficient and effective service provision.
• To support the Team lead in managing the caseload of patients within the practice population.
• To be responsible for keeping up to date with current issues and events in Primary Health Care.
• To actively participate and influence the developments of Community nursing services.
• To provide support and health education programmes for patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.
• To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/rotate within the trust as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.
• To work alongside other members of the multidisciplinary team e.g., attend meetings of Primary Health Care Team.
• To ensure own mandatory training and team members mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Trust policies.
• Ability to use Information Technology including Word, email and the internet and RIO.
• Participation in complaint investigations, when requested.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be a role model to team members ensuring they are motivated and all their practices are clinically effective and that plans of care are carried out to the agreed standard.
• To identify, assess and signpost patients with complex long term conditions and nursing needs within the allocated caseload, working with GPs and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
• Administer, monitor and review medications according to the Medicines Management policy in conjunction with the General Practitioner, patient/relatives, and multidisciplinary team.
• Clinical responsibilities will include the provision of evidenced based nursing care, using holistic assessment, care planning, and implementation and by defining, monitoring outcomes of care and service provision.
• To undertake comprehensive holistic nursing assessment and documentation of physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patient/client and plan care accordingly.

Person specification Skills/Abilities & Knowledge

• Registered General Nurse with NMC Registration
• Nurse Degree level education
• 5 Years Community Experience

Experience

• Extensive clinical experience in a community setting including caseload management
• Extensive experience of assessing and providing care to people with complex and long-term conditions
• Experience of effectively working in collaboration
• Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision

Skills/Abilities & Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written in order to manage difficult situations/conflict with positive outcomes.
• Confidence and ability to establish effective team working within the community team.
• Ability to negotiate and influence delivery of expert clinical care

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time.

Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.