Senior Community Nurse

1 week ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse Triage and Assessment Team - Tower Hamlets, London

Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)

Are you looking to progress your Clinical and leadership skills and be at the forefront of change?

We in the Triage and Assessment team, have an ambitious vision for the Tower Hamlets community health service. We are striving to deliver high standards of care at the point of entry into our services, with the aim of improving access to the quality of life for all of our patients. One of our main aims of the Triage Team is also to enable self care and independence.

Our staff are central to delivering the service vision and we are keen to recruit high calibre staff, who will be offered the support required to fulfill their roles as well as being provided with the training and experience to further their skills.

You will be expected to have completed the District Nursing programme or have the willingness to complete the course. You will be a strong team player, an excellent communicator who is adaptable, committed, well organised and work well under pressure.

Having a sound clinical assessment skill and ability to effectively manage time is essential for the post.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of a team ensuring all referrals are triaged and have a visit schedule for the appropriate service. To work as part of a team ensuring all new admissions to the Community Nursing services have a clinically robust assessment and patient focused care plan. This is borough wide cover. To introduce and enable self management and self care. To work as part of a team ensuring all patients have a safe handover to the professional and team to complete the care plan and measure the outcomes. To work in partnership with the locality teams to maintain effective patient flow. To work within the financial resources for the patients and the service. Ensuring out of hours patient visits are allocated. To work shifts to cover a 24 hour service including 20.00hr to 08.00 hr. 08.00 – 16.00 hrs and 12.00 to 20.00 hrs and rotation to night on pro rota basis where needed.

Working for our organisation

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.

For contact details please see below.

Person specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential criteria

RGN

Desirable criteria

DN Cert/Dip/Degree Non-Medical Prescriber V300 Nurse Formulary prescriber V100 Advanced history taking and physical assessment course

Experience

Essential criteria

Ability to organize and deliver high standards of evidence based clinical nursing care. Ability to assess, monitor , plan and evaluate care Good organizational Skills and ability to priories work and delegate effectively to the team Experience of Budget management Ability to liaise effectively with members of the Primary care team.

Desirable criteria

Experience of managing a team with the health care setting Experience and knowledge on holistic initial assessments.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Understanding and knowledge of the complex needs and long term conditions management. Good knowledge of safeguarding processes and able to escalate issues around vulnerable adults. Knowledge of agencies and organisations within the primary care systems that can be utilized to gain optimum care for a patient. Sound knowledge and competence in IT and clinical systems for example Emis. Knowledge of HR process for line management of staff. Knowledge of current professional issues facing nursing. Knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation. Knowledge of information governance and the responsibility

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