Lead Nurse Community/District Nursing Camden | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will provide specialist District Nursing leadership being responsible for the operational management of the team, ensuring the coordination of patient care, alongside the appropriate deployment of nursing and therapy staff to meet the needs of patients.This role requires excellent patient-centred clinical, leadership, organisational, time management and communication skills.

The service has undergone radical change to move into neighbourhoods teams. There is vision foe each team to work towards a co located model with other statutory and voluntary agencies as the model develops and grows. The post holder will lead a skill mixed neighbourhood of integrated community nursing and Therapy staff with clinical support form band 8a Therapy lead peers.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

• Work closely with the acute trusts as the patients require.
• Manage the effective coordination and continuity of patient care working closely with external agencies and community colleagues.
• Manage the workforce planning in the team, managing recruitment and selection of personnel and ongoing performance management including appraisals and objective setting.
• Manage the governance of the service covering the investigation of complaints and incidents to ensure lessons learnt are shared and implemented.
• To manage the clinical performance of nursing staff, ensuring that their interventions are commensurate with the required competency
• Manage relationships with the acute trust and partner community providers communicating regularly and working together to develop joint processes and policies.
• Establish effective communication links with community colleagues supporting integrated working to manage smooth a hand over of care.
• Co-lead on the service development of the team implementing QI and SCARF principles to maximise productivity and extending the remit of team into other areas of working.
• Manage the development of new policies and processes to support the development and appropriate governance of the service.
• Manage, analyse and interpret data associated with the team and make suggestions for improvements based on reported statistics and facts.
• Plan the staffing of the service based on activity and needs of the patients in line with budget restrictions.
• Manage the service budget to deliver a year end surplus.

• To ensure nursing care delivered by the team is technically excellent, expressly personal and ensures patients and carers dignity is enhanced.
• To address distressing and emotional need of patients and carers in an exemplary manner.
• To undertake highly skilled and complex nursing activities directly related to the assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care.
• To make skilled clinical decisions and communicate the rationale clearly.
• To ensure effective implementation of infection control policies.
• To provide effective clinical supervision day to day for nurses within the team.
• To fulfil the requirements of NHS continuing care for the patients on their caseload.
• To support and line manage staff in the management of complex care ensuring that risks are adequately assessed, minimised, translated into appropriate care plans and reported across the organisation as appropriate.
• To ensure that clinical practice is contemporary to meeting the needs of patients and families.
• To ensure that each patient has a comprehensive assessment of need, including risk assessment and that their care is culturally sensitive and addresses issues of diversity.
• To provide health information and health promotion for patients and their families on the caseload.
• To take responsibility for prescribing such treatments as deemed professionally appropriate in line with the British National Formulary, local formularies and within the CNWL Camden Provider Services prescribing governance framework, having completed a recognised Prescribing Educational Programme.
• To participate and develop policy and standard setting.
• To ensure robust systems for clinical governance within their team.
• To participate in resource projects and health promotion programmes as requested.
• To work closely with the acute trust, GP, nursing and therapy colleagues to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions.
• Attend regular MDM / MDT meetings with Acute Services, nursing, therapists, social services and GP Practices as appropriate.

This advert closes on Thursday 23 Jan 2025