Main area Community Nursing Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22 hours per week (2 x 11 hour night shifts) Job ref 396-779-N-6795658-CN-JK-Y
Site Richmond Town Whitton Salary £42,939 - £50,697 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Outer) Salary period Yearly Closing 28/11/2024 23:59
Job overview
Are you ready for a new challenge? Could you make a difference?
Are you:
1. Interested in developing your nursing career?
2. Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care?
3. Compassionate towards patients and their families?
4. An excellent communicator with the ability to lead and motivate a team?
5. Highly motivated, energetic and innovative with a full UK driving license holder with access to a car?
An exciting opportunity has come up for the Adult Community Night Nursing Service for a Band 6 Community Nurse to work across the Richmond area. The service operates from 1900 hours until 0700 hours across Richmond borough and the vacancy is two night shifts a week.
As a senior community nurse you will assist the Community Team Manager in the management of a designated caseload, ensuring that holistic assessments are undertaken by a competent practitioner within the nursing team.
The Trust is passionate in developing the staff by providing a robust and comprehensive training programme to build your nursing career. Trainings on offer are the following: District Nursing specialist training sponsorship, V150/300 Non-Medical Prescriber, Physical assessment, Leadership and Management Programme, and band 6 developmental training amongst other things.
Main duties of the job
1. To support the Locality Nursing Team Manager in the delivery of the locality nursing service in line with the commissioned service specification, standards, activity and outcomes, in the context of multi-disciplinary locality working.
2. Assisting the Locality Nursing Team Manager to provide line management and leadership for the community nursing team, being accountable for the team caseload and the development of a skilled, competent and motivated workforce, able to meet the needs of the patients on the caseload.
3. Take a lead for a specific area of nursing practice, as a delegated responsibility, to ensure that less experienced nurses have access to best practice knowledge and expertise to inform and support their clinical practice.
4. Deputise in the absence of the Locality Nursing Team Manager, and undertake delegated tasks as development opportunities for succession planning.
5. This will involve working independently.
Working for our organisation
Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
*****Please see attached the full Job Description and the Person Specification for all the main responsibilities of this role.*****
Person specification
Qualifications
* Qualified RGN (Registered General Nurse - Adult) with current registration with NMC - Part1.
* Relevant post registration study at diploma/degree level and relevant CPD e.g. palliative care, tissue viability.
* Diploma or BSc (Hons) Community Health (DN).
* Clinical Assessment Skills.
* Nurse Prescriber V150 (willing to undertake).
* Mentorship Preceptorship or equivalent (willing to undertake).
* Specialist Practice Teacher/ Teaching Qualification.
Knowledge
* Understanding of the impact of Mental Health e.g. dementia, depression, on the management of medical and long term conditions.
* Professional standards including confidentiality, clinical governance and NMC guidelines.
* Infection prevention and control standards.
* Risk assessment and management.
* Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
* Understanding of current legislation and its implications for this role, including performance indicators and targets.
* Understanding of both the Health and Social Care agenda.
Experience
* Experience in assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating patients in their own homes.
* Experience in problem solving and supporting other team members.
* Experience of Multidisciplinary team work.
* Experience of providing supervision.
* Experience of mentoring students.
* Experience of managing resources to stay within the service budget.
* Experience of audit evaluation.
Skills
* Ability to manage the day to day running of the team, use initiative and delegate tasks to appropriately trained staff.
* Ability to lead by example, both clinically and managerially, being consistent and fair to all staff in every aspect of work.
* IT literate with ability to use databases and other software packages.
* Ability to work under pressure, balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
* Core clinical skills medicines management including IV, venepuncture, continence, chronic disease management, palliative care, wound management.
* Holistic assessment, core clinical, clinical reasoning and care planning skills to proactively manage patient care.
* Able to produce well written and timely clinical records and service reports.
Personal
* Reliable, empathetic, approachable, understanding, non-judgemental and tolerant.
* Ability to travel to multiple sites; car driver.
* Ability to undertake a shift system.
* Has a positive attitude to change and is prepared to work flexibly to meet the need of people and the service.
* Demonstrates high ethical and professional standards.
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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.
Name Vanessa Long Job title Assistant Business Manager Email address vanessa.long@nhs.net Telephone number 020 8487 1625 Additional information
Informal visits (by appointment) are very welcomed, come and see what our teams do and discuss how you can join us.
If you are looking for a role with variety, continuous support, encouragement, and genuine job satisfaction.
For more information please contact Claire Moloney, Service Manager Richmond via email claire.moloney1@nhs.net
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