[ref. k89485621] Senior Community Nurse - NHS
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.
Job overview
Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - 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 District Nursing 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 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 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 timely visit scheduled.
- 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 and partner providers to maintain effective patient flow.
- To work within the financial resources for the patients and the service.
- To work shifts patters on a rota: (8am-4pm, 10am-6pm and 12pm-8pm) Monday to Sunday.
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.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact the recruiting manager.
Person specification
Education/qualification/training
Essential criteria- RGN
- DN Cert/Dip/Degree
- Advanced history taking and physical assessment course
- Non-Medical Prescriber V300
- Non-Medical Prescriber V300
- Nurse Formulary prescriber V100
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
- Ability to liaise effectively with members of the Primary care team.
- Experience and knowledge on holistic initial assessments.
- Experience of managing a team within the health care setting
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
- Sound knowledge and competence in IT and clinical systems for example Emis.
- Knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation
- Knowledge of information governance and the responsibility
- Knowledge of HR process for line management of staff
- Knowledge of current professional issues facing nursing
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London.We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services.We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve.Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
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