Are you an experienced practitioner with a strong track record in Operational and Clinical leadership? Do you have the vision to know what great community nursing care looks like and the passion to help us reshape the way we deliver care?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nursing Lead to join our established teams to work with our community nurses in the Integrated Community Teams.

Main duties of the job

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 peer group of Professionals within community nursing as well as physiotherapy and occupational therapy.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current registration with NMC / HCPC or ASC equivalent
• Educated to degree (level 6) (or diploma equivalent)

Desirable

• Extended skills qualifications relevant to the discipline (for example District Nurse SPQ)
• Hold a recognised teaching and assessment/ mentoring qualification

Experience

Essential

• Extensive post registration experience in the requisite discipline
• Breadth of clinical / professional experience which can be demonstrated in practice and support a range of patient / service user care requirements
• Experience of identifying and managing risk, planning appropriate interventions to mitigate identified risk, and working with escalation processes
• Experience of achieving positive outcomes for service users and the wider community through multi-disciplinary and partnership working and stakeholder engagement

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Independent Living Centre (ILC)

Village Road,

Cheltenham,

GL51 0BY

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327-24-845