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.
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.
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.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS trust has an exciting opportunity for dedicated Community Staff Nurses to join the Adult Community Nursing Service delivering services to patients in their own homes in one of our 4 local neighbourhoods.
Main duties of the job
As no two days are the same in the community, you will be able to work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability where the work you do makes a real difference to your patients and those important to them, in line with our trust values.
The aim of our service is to enable patients to stay at home longer and leave hospitals faster maximising their potential for independence and wellbeing. To succeed in this goal, our community teams work closely with members of the wider multi-disciplinary teams to plan and deliver complex care.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The two shift patterns for the role: 08.00 – 16.00 and 12.00 – 20.00, with weekends on rota.
A driving license and access to a vehicle is necessary for this role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Registered Nurse – Adult on the Nursing and Midwifery Register
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* To meet the numeracy literacy and clinical competency requirements of the role
* Evidence of other post registration education and training
* Clinical specific post registration courses such as; wound, diabetes, continence care, including leg ulcer management and/or other nursing interventions
Experience
* Experience of communicating and working in partnership with other professionals and agencies
* Teaching experience including facilitating groups for delivering health promotion
* Experience of working in a community setting
Knowledge
* Knowledge of current reforms and developments in community care
* Understands the importance of promoting self care and rehabilitation for the housebound patient
* Knowledge and awareness of principles of audit, research and clinical governance
* Understands the value of timely record keeping and accurate recording of nursing interventions
Skills and Attributes
* Ability to develop SMART care plans to deliver quality nursing care to patients
* Ability to deliver a broad range of practical nursing tasks to monitor and manage patients’ conditions
* Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to use own initiative, work autonomously as well as in a team
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.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
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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