Job summary
Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London
Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)
Are you passionate about making a difference for older people and supporting safe, timely discharges from hospital? Do you want to be part of an innovative, integrated service working at the interface of acute and community care?
We are looking for an experienced and motivated B6 Community Nurse to join our Integrated In-Reach and Older People Service, helping to deliver high quality of, person centred, care for patients living with frailty, complex health care needs, and social care challenges.
This exciting role is central to supporting hospital flow, avoid unnecessary admissions, and ensuring patients return safely to their home or community setting with the right care in place.
This is role is ideal for a dynamic, forward thinking nurse with experience in acute, community, or older people's services. You will be confident working across boundaries, enjoy problem solving, and thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can make a real impact on patient outcomes.
Main duties of the job
- Work proactively on hospital wards to identify medially fit patients at risk of delayed discharge and coordinate timely, safe transitions of care
- Use advance assessment and frailty and falls screening skills to support older people with complex needs, ensuring personalised care planning.
- Collaborate closely with community health services, social care, primary care, and care homes to streamline pathways and avoid readmissions.
- Provide clinical leadership, education, and support to junior colleagues, care staff, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Contribute to service development and the wider frailty and admission avoidance pathway, ensuring best practice and innovation..
- 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.
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.
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
- Physical assessment and first contact course (or willingness to undertake)
- Awareness of current developments in primary and community care in particular with older people
- Specialist practitioner (District Nursing) Degree or equivalent certificate/diploma
Desirable
- 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
- Experience of working in older people including chronic disease management of long-term condition in acute, community, or intermediate care
- Ability to undertake clinical audit and evaluate, analyse and interpret data working collaboratively and able to produce required reports
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
Person Specification
Education/qualification/training
Essential
- RGN
- Physical assessment and first contact course (or willingness to undertake)
- Awareness of current developments in primary and community care in particular with older people
- Specialist practitioner (District Nursing) Degree or equivalent certificate/diploma
Desirable
- 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
- Experience of working in older people including chronic disease management of long-term condition in acute, community, or intermediate care
- Ability to undertake clinical audit and evaluate, analyse and interpret data working collaboratively and able to produce required reports
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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Tower Hamlets Community Health Team
Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road
London
E1 1FR
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
