Job summary
Are you ready for a new challenge? Could you make a difference?
Are you:
Interested in developing your nursing career?
Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care?
Compassionate towards patients and their families?
An excellent communicator with the ability to lead and motivate a team?
Highly motivated, energetic and innovative with 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.
Get your career in the right direction, with the right organisation and at the right time - please come to KRFT and be part of this organisation.
Main duties of the job
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.
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
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.
Deputise in the absence of the Locality Nursing Team Manager, and undertake delegated tasks as development opportunities for succession planning.
This will involve working independently
About us
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.
In 2018, we were named 'Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction' by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.
We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.
Infection Control
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*****Please see attached the full Job Description and the Person Specification for the all the main responsibilities of this role.*****
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Qualified RGN (Registered General Nurse - Adult) with current registration with NMC - Part1.
2. Relevant post registration study at diploma/degree level and relevant CPD palliative care, tissue viability
Desirable
3. Diploma or BSc (Hons) Community Health (DN)
4. Clinical Assessment Skills
5. Nurse Prescriber V150 (willing to undertake)
6. Mentorship Preceptorship or equivalent (willing to undertake)
7. Specialist Practice Teacher/ Teaching Qualification
Knowledge
Essential
8. Understanding of the impact of Mental Health dementia, depression, on the management of medical and long term conditions
9. Professional standards including confidentiality, clinical governance and NMC guidelines
10. Infection prevention and control standards
11. Risk assessment and management
12. Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Desirable
13. Understanding of current legislation and its implications for this role, including performance indicators and targets
14. Understanding of both the Health and Social Care agenda
Experience
Essential
15. Experience in assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating patients in their own homes
16. Experience in problem solving and supporting other team members
17. Experience of Multidisciplinary team work
18. Experience of providing supervision
19. Experience of mentoring students
Desirable
20. Experience of managing resources to stay within the service budget
21. Experience of audit evaluation
Skills
Essential
22. Ability to manage the day to day running of the team, use initiative and delegate tasks to appropriately trained staff
23. Ability to lead by example, both clinically and managerially, being consistent and fair to all staff in every aspect of work
24. IT literate with ability to use databases and other software packages
25. Ability to work under pressure, balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
26. Core clinical skills medicines management including IV, venepuncture, continence, chronic disease management, palliative care, wound management
27. Holistic assessment, core clinical, clinical reasoning and care planning skills to proactively manage patient care
28. .Able to produce well written and timely clinical records and service reports
Personal
Essential
29. Reliable, empathetic, approachable, understanding, non-judgemental and tolerant
30. Ability to travel to multiple sites; car driver
31. Ability to undertake a shift system
32. Has a positive attitude to change and is prepared to work flexibly to meet the need of people and the service
33. Demonstrates high ethical and professional standards