The post holder will be required to:

• To provide highly skilled and autonomous care to a designated caseload including taking responsibility for the assessment, management, and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings.

Act as the Team Leader for the Rapid Response Nursing Team on a rotational basis responsible for day-to-day management of the service acting as a key point of contact for GPs and other general practice staff.

To work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liaising with GP's other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies to deliver individualised and expert nursing care to a high standard to client, and leading communication with all stakeholders.

Take designated responsibility for discrete areas of operational management/ clinical practice.

Work on a rotational shift basis - 8am - 4pm and 2pm - 10pm, when working on the LAS/UCR car shift is 8am - 6pm all services are 7 day a week including bank holidays.

• To support the Service Manager/Clinical Lead and colleagues in delivering high quality care that delivers best value and meets the requirements of commissioners.

Main duties of the job

To provide skilled, effective, and evidence-based nursing care to patients with complex care needs, in a variety of community settings.

Utilise advanced clinical and diagnostic skills and expert knowledge to carry out thorough assessments of physical and psycho-social needs to develop a comprehensive short term care plan aiming to optimise health and wellbeing that will prevent a hospital attendance/ admission or allow early discharge home. To include the needs of carers.

Provide direct advanced, autonomous clinical care to a range of patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed and/ or complex health needs and long-term conditions.

Work within Clinical Guidelines, Policies, Procedures and Patient Group Directions (PGD's) utilising expert judgment to work outside these frameworks where necessary.

Prescribe as an Independent Nurse Prescriber as required, within professional competence, ensuring that all duties in relation to medicines management meet required professional and CLCH standards.

About us

We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.

Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:

stay well

manage their own health with the right support

avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.

We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.

Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.

Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence

Job description

Job responsibilities

Deliver agreed clinical quality and performance standards within the unplanned Care Service team.

To assess referrals to Rapid Response/ Urgent Community Response Team and respond within 2 hours to ensure adequate care and support for patients and carers.

Manage the day-to-day, on-going delivery and development of the service within remit ensuring delivery of a service that is responsive, high quality, value for money and meets contractual obligations.

Responsible for service delivery with the available resources, and monitoring of performance against, set targets (activity, finance, outcomes, utilisation)

To actively participate in maintaining own professional development, identifying own educational and clinical training needs with Line Manager.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Qualification in Community and/ or Accident and Emergency Nursing.
• Community or Independent Nurse Prescribing qualification or prepared to work towards
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development with up-to-date CPD portfolio

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional education and training at master's Level.
• Further desirable qualifications in Primary Care/ Accident & Emergency.
• Management or leadership qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Extensive senior experience within adult nursing services especially Primary Care and/ or Accident & Emergency.
• Extensive senior experience within adult nursing services especially Primary Care and/ or Accident & Emergency.
• Experience of assessing and providing quality care to people with complex needs and long-term conditions.

Desirable

• Experience of team / service/ staff management.
• Experience of implementing evidence-based care and developing others to do so.

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Finchley Memorial Hospital

Granville Road,

London

N12 0JE

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