Community Nurse Lead - GloucesterIntegrated Community Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nursing Lead (CNL) to join our established teams to work with our community nurses in Gloucester Integrated Community Team (ICT). This position is one of three CNLs leading the Community Nursing provision for residents of Gloucester city who are registered with 1 of 5 Primary Care Networks.

The role is diverse, varied and practice focused, upholding the professional standards of practice, innovating service developments and working in collaboration with colleagues to create an outstanding service for the patients and families we work with. You will join an established, highly experienced collaborative peer group of professionals within Community Nursing as well as Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Home First / Reablement.

Main duties of the job

What will your role involve:

• You will clinically lead, supervise and manage a community nursing team working closely alongside them each day providing both direct and indirect patient care.
• Apply your Clinical operational experience, maintaining and improving quality, monitoring standards utilising data, audits and reports.
• Identify service delivery development or system opportunities working with our partners across Health & Social care and community networks.
• Build Key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote and build community nursing services .

For more information or a chat about the team and our roles please contact Sarah Sharp, Community Manager for Gloucester ICT on 0300 421 3110 or Nancy Farr, Head of Profession for Community Nursing on 07917-557-902. We look forward to hearing from you.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Surveygives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Specialist Practitioner Qualification or 3(50%) of required degree modules completed or in progress in the past 2 years
• NMC registration

Desirable

• Hold a recognised teaching and assessment/ mentoring qualification

Experience

Essential

• Post registration Community Nursing Experience
• Clinical team leadership including professional and clinical supervision to staff at a variety of level

Desirable

• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Use of SystmOne

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Community

Collingwood House, Horton Road

Gloucester

GL1 3PX

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