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Site: Harpenden Memorial Hospital
Town: Harpenden
Salary: £39,205 - £47,084 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/02/2025 23:59
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
To set and maintain standards of care and deploy, co-ordinate and supervise the nursing team and learners as required.
To provide leadership and management to a team of community nurses and other staff covering the four localities across Herts Valleys.
To be responsible for the team’s assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised nursing care to patients living in the community. The service is provided seven days per week 8am-8pm.
To be responsible for the team’s maintenance of patient and other records.
To participate in the long term management of patients within the locality.
To have continued responsibility for a defined caseload.
Main Duties of the Job
To demonstrate discretion and respect when communicating with patients, colleagues and other agencies.
To use tact and diplomacy to provide and communicate complex, sensitive information where motivational negotiating, empathetic and reassurance skills are needed, where barriers exist to understanding, maintaining confidentiality within Trust Policies.
To communicate effectively with all members of Primary Health Care teams. Develop networks for effective communication between health, statutory and voluntary services including patient forums.
To communicate and work together with other teams within Adult Community Services, and other providers, to ensure optimum patient centred care. Use various methods of communication including oral, written, electronic or other verbal or nonverbal methods.
To involve patients and carers in the planning of care programmes and encourage self-management where appropriate.
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/Qualification
* Registered Nurse
* Practice Supervisor/Assessor or equivalent
* Specialist Nursing Practice (District Nursing) Degree or will undertake training
* Nurse Prescribing or will undertake training
* Knowledge of recent developments in NHS
* Knowledge of Evidence based practice
* Evidence of personal development
* Knowledge of NMC code of professional conduct
* Relevant courses in Long Term Conditions Management
* Course of Top to Toe examination/ diagnosis Experience
Experience
* Experienced Nurse
* Management of a team
* Management of change within a complex environment
* Experience of teaching others
* Proven clinical skill
* Experience of participating in investigation/ management of complaints
* Evidence of participating in clinical audits in the workplace
Skills and Knowledge
* Proven clinical skill
* Evidence of participating in clinical audits in the workplace
* Use of syringe drivers for the administration of medicines or will undergo training.
* Be able to administer IV therapy in a community setting or will undergo training.
* IT skills, knowledge of word processing, and Internet.
* Car driver and holder of current UK driving licence (unless you have a disability as defined by Disability Discrimination Act 1995).
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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