This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
Due to reorganisation within the division, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, proactive, compassionate leader to join our Community Team as the Lead Nurse.
The post holder will work in collaboration with the Neighbourhood Nurse Management team and the Head of Nursing to maintain high levels of quality and safety and to provide high level support and leadership to our high functioning teams.
Main duties of the job
The Community Lead Nurse's key responsibility is to provide viable, accessible leadership to all areas within their given areas of responsibility. The Community Nurse Lead will support the community nursing teams to promote excellence in nursing care to maintain and improve clinical standards. The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond.
The Community Nurse Lead will ensure that the patient experience is of the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility, and surveillance. The post holder will be expected to work clinically for an agreed 20% of their time and where required will be a specialist in their clinical area.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
* Registered nurse qualification Degree or equivalent clinical/advanced practice and significant post registration experience.
* Post registration qualification or equivalent experience in specialty. Masters Degree or working towards.
Desirable criteria
* Evidence of post registration/ qualification Management/Leadership qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Clinical expertise relevant to the post. Experience of managing staff. Senior clinical experience within specialty. Leadership of clinical governance and patient safety.
* Achievement of high quality patient care through evidence based practice. Management of finances within a budget, including delivery of cost improvements.
* Management/Clinical Leadership experience. Experience of successfully leading and implementing change. Experience in analysing complex problems and implementing workable solutions.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* A good understanding of the changing NHS environment. Highly developed written and verbal skills.
* Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships. A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.
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.
#J-18808-Ljbffr