Staff Nurse/ Administrator - London
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
In line with the Trust’s Annual Business Plan you will provide high quality, safe and effective HIV care to our patients. You will work with the HIV team, within the HIV services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital delivering care both in a clinical setting and the community.You will be required to liaise with appropriate staff within the multidisciplinary team, the clinic, primary and other community services in order to deliver care effectively.
The Women’s Children and Sexual Health Division aims to provide an environment conducive to the on-going development of all staff and advancements in the quality of the service by ensuring provision of a high standard of training, teaching, and clinical care within the acute/community setting.The role will involve clinical patient care, clerical and administration duties, and supporting the HIV Community CNS in the maintenance of a safe environment for both patients and staff. The post holder will play a key role in supporting the HIV Community Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and multidisciplinary team in providing high quality care to patients within the community and clinic setting.
Main duties of the job- To provide ongoing follow-up care and support in conjunction with the the HIV community CNS such as home visits, telephone support, phlebotomy in the community/patient’s homes, including lone working.
- Lead on administrative roles within the HIV community team ensuring all administrative processes in relation to the running of the HIV community nursing team and system operate effectively, e.g. support arrangement of transport for patients who may need to attend clinic, translators.
- Work collaboratively with the members of the MDT such as pharmacy to ensure a seamless provision of anti-retrovirals to patients who are housebound/community based.
- To assist the team in facilitating the transition of patient care between acute and community services.
- Check and respond to various methods of communications both internal and external to the Trust regarding patients who require the community nursing team support.
- To use own initiative and work independently, and have an awareness of when to seek information and support from the HIV community CNS and the multidisciplinary team.
- Act independently ensuring that agreed daily tasks and ongoing workloads are prioritised and completed in agreed timeframes.
- To practice under the supervision of the HIV community CNS and the MDT in line with Trust processes and the NMC Professional Code of Practice.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
- Ensures results of all biomedical investigations and interventions undertaken are escalated to a clinician timely and filed appropriately in line with legislation, policies and procedures.
- To provide ongoing follow-up care and support in conjunction with the the HIV community CNS such as home visits, telephone support, phlebotomy in the community/patient’s homes, including lone working.
- Lead on administrative roles within the HIV community team ensuring all administrative processes in relation to the running of the HIV community nursing team and system operate effectively, e.g. support arrangement of transport for patients who may need to attend clinic, translators.
- Work collaboratively with the members of the MDT such as pharmacy to ensure a seamless provision of anti-retrovirals to patients who are housebound/community based.
- To assist the team in facilitating the transition of patient care between acute and community services.
- Check and respond to various methods of communications both internal and external to the Trust regarding patients who require the community nursing team support.
- To use own initiative and work independently, and have an awareness of when to seek information and support from the HIV community CNS and the multidisciplinary team.
- Act independently ensuring that agreed daily tasks and ongoing workloads are prioritised and completed in agreed timeframes.
- To create and maintain an electronic database system for the delivery and recording of the community HIV positive patient cohorts, streaming according to activity and priority.
- To practice under the supervision of the HIV community CNS and the MDT in line with Trust processes and the NMC Professional Code of Practice.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse on NMC register
- Evidence on-going/recent Continuing Professional and Personal Development
- Phlebotomy
- Data management input and experience
- Degree level or equivalent
- Post registration qualifications/training in HIV speciality (e.g. ENB934) or a recognised HIV course
- Recognised Sexual Health qualification
- Teaching/mentoring qualification or equivalent.
Experience
Essential criteria- Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Experience in an NHS administrative and clinical role
- Experience of acute clinical nursing and working in a healthcare setting
- Able to anticipate and forward plan
- Skilled and experienced in Phlebotomy
- Experience of working with clients and families collaboratively, some who may come from a variety of socio-economic, diverse and ethnic backgrounds
- Experience and ability to discuss sensitive issues with patients
- Acting as patient advocate.
- Community nursing experience
- Experience of managing a case load of patients
- Undertaking Point of Care HIV Testing
- Experieince of Mental Health and Substance Misuse
- Experience of Sexual Health and HIV
- Experience of undertaking audit and research
- Teaching/training, mentoring experience.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+.We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.