Employer: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Harpenden Memorial Hospital
Town: Harpenden
Salary: £31,469 - £38,308 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/02/2025 23:59
Community Nurse
Band 5
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!
To provide skilled nursing care working under the supervision of the Community Nurse Team Lead and Deputy Team Lead to patients in a variety of community settings.
The post holder will undertake community nursing duties involving delivery of nursing services and holistic assessments of patients' health needs using a person-centred approach. This includes providing quality and seamless nursing care to housebound patients and being proactive in coordinating their care needs as appropriate, avoiding unnecessary admission to hospital or long-term care institutions. In addition, the post holder will be involved in facilitating self-care for patients with long-term conditions, health promotion and innovative activities and projects that enhance patient service delivery.
**Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)**
Main duties of the job
To give skilled nursing care, based on principles of best practice and clinical evidence. Including:
1. Chronic disease management, end of life care, continence promotion and wound management.
2. Specific skills include phlebotomy, administration of medication via syringe drivers and intravenous therapy, PEG management, urinary catheterisation and tracheostomy suctioning.
3. Act as a Named Nurse with the support and supervision of the DN Team Lead.
4. Take continued responsibility for the holistic health needs assessment including care planning, evaluation and appropriate implementation of health care and ensuring continuity of care following referral from acute care, rehabilitation units, GPs and other agencies.
5. Undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical, psychological and social care needs of patients using the Single Assessment Process and including the needs of carers.
6. Provide individualised and person-centred care plans that provide monitoring and promotion of self-care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
7. Act as the patient’s advocate and facilitate the patient’s own choices with regard to nursing care, promoting independence and self-care, as appropriate.
8. Identify and record new problems and other relevant information reporting back to the DN Team Lead as appropriate.
9. Maintain accurate, comprehensive and contemporaneous records in accordance with Trust and NMC guidelines.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
* A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role.
* Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up).
* Flexible working options.
* Training, support and development in your career.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Registered Nurse (RN)
* NMC Registration
* Evidence of other post-registration education and training
Experience
* Recent clinical nursing experience negotiating and liaising within a multidisciplinary team.
* Working with people with complex health needs.
* Supporting students and other learners e.g. HCAs teaching others in the practice environment.
* Experience of undertaking general assessment by utilising evidence-based care.
* Previous experience in the Nursing process, care planning and fluent in record keeping.
* Experience of providing holistic care that involves the multidisciplinary team.
* Experience of training other students.
* Post registration experience in a NHS community environment.
Skills and Knowledge
* Knowledge of out of hospital care and the role of the Community Nurse.
* Awareness of the management and use of data in the NHS setting.
* Knowledge of risks involved in working in the community.
* Knowledge of management of long term condition e.g. Diabetes and an understanding of the concept of self-management.
* Knowledge of infection control.
* Knowledge of general wound care.
* Promotion of continence.
* Literacy and numeracy skills.
Other
* Car Driver
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks.
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
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.
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