Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London

Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)

Are you looking to progress your Clinical and leadership skills and be at the forefront of change? We are excited to offer a 1 year fixed term position to cover maternity leave.

We in the District Nursing team, have an ambitious vision for the Tower Hamlets community health service. We are striving to deliver high standards of care at the point of entry into our services, with the aim of improving access to the quality of life for all of our patients. One of our main aims is also to enable self care and independence.

Our staff are central to delivering the service vision and we are keen to recruit high calibre staff, who will be offered the support required to fulfill their roles as well as being provided with the training and experience to further their skills.

You will be a strong team player, an excellent communicator who is adaptable, committed, well organised and work well under pressure.

Having a sound clinical assessment skill and ability to effectively manage time is essential for the post.

Main duties of the job

• To work as part of a team ensuring all referrals are triaged and have a timely visit scheduled.
• To work as part of a team ensuring all new admissions to the Community Nursing services have a clinically robust assessment and patient focused care plan.
• This is borough wide cover.
• To introduce and enable self management and self care.
• To work as part of a team ensuring all patients have a safe handover to the professional and team to complete the care plan and measure the outcomes.
• To work in partnership with the locality teams and partner providers to maintain effective patient flow.
• To work within the financial resources for the patients and the service.
• To work shifts patters on a rota: (8am-4pm, 10am-6pm and 12pm-8pm) Monday to Sunday.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact the recruiting manager.

Person Specification

Education/qualification/training

Essential

• RGN

Desirable

• DN Cert/Dip/Degree
• Advanced history taking and physical assessment course
• Non-Medical Prescriber V300
• Non-Medical Prescriber V300
• Nurse Formulary prescriber V100

Experience

Essential

• Ability to organize and deliver high standards of evidence based clinical nursing care
• Ability to assess, monitor , plan and evaluate care
• Good organizational Skills and ability to priories work and delegate effectively to the team
• Ability to liaise effectively with members of the Primary care team.
• Experience and knowledge on holistic initial assessments.

Desirable

• Experience of managing a team within the health care setting

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Understanding and knowledge of the complex needs and long term conditions management.
• Good knowledge of safeguarding processes and able to escalate issues around vulnerable adults
• Sound knowledge and competence in IT and clinical systems for example Emis.
• Knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation
• Knowledge of information governance and the responsibility

Desirable

• Knowledge of HR process for line management of staff
• Knowledge of current professional issues facing nursing

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tower Hamlets Community Health Team

3rd Floor Beaumont House, Mile End Hospital, Bancroft Road

London

E1 4DG

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363-CTH6797050