Main area: Nursing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 08:30 - 17:00)
Job ref: 395-HV727-24
Site: Romford Clinic
Town: Romford
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa plus HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 22/01/2025
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
The Lower Limb Service Nurse Co-ordinator is an exciting role for a Registered Nurse (RN12-NMC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
The post holder will achieve this by offering specific lower limb advice and support to patients and their caregivers, with a particular focus on coordinating the lower limb care service offer in the Locality team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder, with the support of the team lead, will lead and manage the lower limb service within the Locality team and be responsible for the management of the service caseload ensuring the provision of a high standard of nursing care to patients and their families in the community.
He/she will work as part of the integrated community health care team, working within and across professional and organisational boundaries. Liaising with GPs, other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies he/she will deliver individualised care to patients.
The Lower Limb Service Nurse Coordinator works without direct supervision and provides leadership to the community nursing team supporting the service, with the support of the team lead.
Working for our organisation
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.
High Cost Area Supplement – London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please ensure you meet the person specifications and have the relevant qualifications required for the role.
The successful applicant must be flexible, a car driver, a good team worker, used to working under pressure, have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to communicate effectively with patients, carers and other members of the MDT.
Person specification
Knowledge
* An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities
* Awareness of the content and application in practice of the NMC code of professional conduct
* Extensive range of clinical skills including assessment
* Manage, implement and evaluate complex health care needs and make recommendations
* Understand the importance of disease management and rehabilitation in the community
* Effective management of team members, planning and delegating of caseload appropriately
* An understanding of working within budgetary and resource constraints
* Aware of current policy and professional, primary and social care issues
* An understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice
* Provide statistical data and reports as required for service delivery
* Understand the need for confidentiality when relating patients' conditions to relatives
* Ensure all risks are assessed and appropriate action taken to eliminate any risks
* Make recommendations as necessary and improve service delivery
Qualifications
* Current NMC registration – Registered Nurse (RN)
* Nurse Prescriber/Non-medical Prescriber or willing to undertake
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Specialist Community Practitioner (District Nursing) Qualification
Experience
* Extensive experience of working within adult services
* Experience of providing support and supervision to community team members
* Experience of facilitating groups/meetings
* Evidence of teaching and assessing individuals
* Project leadership experience
* Evidence of providing complex packages of care
* Evidence of innovations in practice
* Ability to manage staff conflict and difficult situations
* Experience of ensuring practice is evidence-based
* Experience of clinical audit
Other
* To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values.
* To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area.
* Involvement in providing a learning environment for students.
* Enthusiastic approach and ability to enthuse others to develop and increase their responsibilities within the team.
* Excellent role model.
* Able to work flexibly and respond to changing demands in workload/environment.
* Approachable.
* Applicant will need to be a car driver with a valid UK licence with access to a vehicle for work.
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
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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