Senior Community Nurse - Community Response Team (CRT)
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, forward-thinking, self-motivated individual to join our Community Response Team based in Stratford.
The Community Response Team operates across the hours of 08:30 to 21:30, 7 days a week, including weekends and bank holidays.
As a Senior Community Nurse, you will be responsible for assessing and managing the health and care needs of patients in their homes, aiming to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting to facilitate discharges from hospital. You will support patients in the community with long-term conditions, providing end-of-life support and holistic, comprehensive care. You will also work closely with the multidisciplinary team, including Therapists, GPs, and Social Services, collaborating with other community service teams to deliver seamless care across the locality, working within an unpredictable and unscheduled workload.
You will be responsible for deputising on behalf of the Band 7 professional Lead and providing coordination for the team. Proven organisational and management skills are essential, along with the ability to motivate and effectively lead teams in delivering high-quality care. You will be a clinical role model with a willingness to develop the team and your own professional growth.
Main Duties of the Job
Working in a leadership role as a member of the community response team, responding to visits via Clinical Triage assessing, planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the programmes of care provided across health, social, and voluntary care sectors as part of a multidisciplinary community-based rehabilitation team.
About Us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC, and we are recruiting new staff to help us improve even further.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond, ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa, and Shipston-on-Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways, and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence: We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective, and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact your work.
Job Responsibilities
1. Provide effective clinical leadership within the Community Response Team, enabling the service to deliver the highest possible care standards, ensuring that evidence-based practice is used.
2. Act as a role model and exercise good leadership.
3. Provide highly skilled nursing assessment, intervention, and advice to clients and carers.
4. Communicate with members of the multidisciplinary team to maintain high standards of care.
5. Work as an accountable and autonomous professional responsible for the diagnosis, advanced assessment, and treatment of community-dwelling clients experiencing sudden health crises.
6. Guide and support junior staff and students in the organisation of their work, providing clinical advice and specialist expertise.
7. Deputise for the Professional Lead on an equitable basis with other senior nurses as needed.
8. Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work.
9. Undertake comprehensive assessments of clients with complex conditions using advanced investigative and analytical skills.
10. Formulate individualised treatment plans using sound clinical reasoning skills.
11. Assess competency and delegate appropriate tasks to other team members, carers, and families.
12. Demonstrate ongoing evaluation of nursing interventions with the client.
13. Carry out treatment plans for other professionals in their absence under delegation and within your competency.
14. Work innovatively to address challenges posed by providing treatment in various community settings.
15. Undertake specialist-nursing interventions requiring accuracy and precision.
16. Take an active lead in advising and teaching health education and promotion.
17. Assess for and provide equipment in accordance with ICES guidelines.
18. Regularly work unsupervised and alone in clients' homes.
19. Report any variance to the clients' care pathway to the Professional Lead/Clinical Lead.
20. Identify urgent needs and initiate an emergency response, giving appropriate first aid as necessary.
21. Work at all times strictly within the Trust's Infection Control Guidelines.
22. Communicate effectively with clients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential.
23. Gain valid consent to intervention where possible in accordance with the legal framework.
24. Liaise and effectively communicate assessment and rehabilitation outcomes with other professionals.
25. Maintain accurate, comprehensive documentation and confidentiality.
26. Assist in the delivery of training/clinical education for staff and students.
27. Attend professional meetings and study days appropriate to the needs of the service.
28. Participate in clinical governance to maintain a high quality of service.
29. Work within agreed national and local clinical guidelines.
30. Be responsible for your continuing professional development.
31. Participate in the appraisal scheme and attend external courses as part of individual appraisal.
32. Be aware of the agreed procedures and Community Nurse involvement in the event of a major accident.
33. Liaise with the team leader in deploying staff on a day-to-day basis.
34. Maintain adequate levels of nursing stock and undertake a quarterly equipment audit.
35. Assist in the recruitment and selection of junior staff.
36. Organise the induction of new staff.
37. Adhere to information governance for patient data.
38. Perform other duties within the spirit of the job purpose and title.
This is an outline job description. It is subject to review at periodic intervals and may change over time with the development of Community Services following discussion with the post holder.
Post holders will be required to have access to independent means of transport for work purposes to travel across the South Warwickshire Foundation Trust and to other agencies.
General Items:
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent
* NMC registered
* Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses/CPD
* Health Assessment Module
Experience
* Relevant post-registration experience including a variety of specialties including Palliative/EOL care.
* Two years' experience in working in the community setting.
* Experience in the clinical supervision and training of staff and students.
Skills
* Demonstrates knowledge of clinical governance and experience of audit.
* Ability to work independently.
* Forward-thinking.
* Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others.
* Critical appraisal, research, and presentation skills.
* Ability to influence and adapt to service needs.
* Experience of nurse leadership and management.
* Ability to prioritise and delegate.
* IT literate.
* Ability to work collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries.
Personal
* Committed to personal and team development.
* Ability to work at a fast pace.
* Adaptable, flexible, and good problem-solving skills.
* Motivation, drive, and enthusiasm.
* Confident and assertive.
* Clear vision of role/commitment to specialty.
Other
* Able to travel independently in the community.
* Willingness to work on a flexible basis to meet the needs of the service.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to check for any previous criminal convictions.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
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