Community Nurse

Central London Community Health Trust

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Job summary

CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!

If you're looking for a rewarding career in the community that allows you to deliver high quality, patient-focused care while leading a dynamic and mutually supportive team, you're in the right place!

CLCH Hertfordshire Division covers the 4 localities of West Hertfordshire, delivering care across the population. We are an innovative divisional team who are always looking to grow and develop our staff and service, and pride ourselves on focusing on staff wellbeing as well as delivering high quality patient focused care.

We are setting up a new team to deliver care for residential homes across three of our four geographical localities - Hertsmere, St Albans and Harpenden and Watford - to improve continuity and enable the residential homes and staff within CLCH to feel well supported and able to deliver excellent care.

Main duties of the job

This idea has come from clinicians delivering face to face contact with patients in the Covid pandemic. They have demonstrated the enhanced level of support we can offer homes through training and collaborative working, and they have built close relationships with the homes as a result.

This has achieved reduction of pressure ulceration, effective treatment of leg ulceration, improvements in continence care, palliative care and management of long term conditions.

The outbreak team healed one patient who had had daily dressings on their legs for over a year in under four weeks, and the quality of life the patient now has is vastly improved from before.

We want to continue to achieve these amazing results on a larger scale - could you be the person who is leading the way to enable this?

About us

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Single occupancy accommodation in Central London - (we can help you find accommodation in London, support you with your deposit)
Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career

As an NHS trust, we are committed to equal opportunities and ensuring equality and diversity in the workplace.

We have a number of staff networks: Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN), Race Equality Network and the Rainbow Network which supports LGBT+ staff. Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetingsto discuss issues andmake plans to improve CLCH.

Date posted

09 June 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,828 to £36,311 a year per annum, inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

824-HERTS-4847

Job locations

Harpenden Memorial Hospital

Harpenden

AL5 4TB

Job description

Job responsibilities

To set and maintain standards of care and deploy, co-ordinate and supervise the nursing team and learners as required.
To provide leadership and management to a team of community nurses and other staff covering the four localities across Herts Valleys.
To be responsible for the teams assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised nursing care to patients living in a residential home. The service is provided seven days per week 8pm-8am
To be responsible for the teams maintenance of patient and other records
To participate in the long term management of patients within the locality
To have continued responsibility for a defined caseload.

Please refer to the attached job description for full list ofresponsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To set and maintain standards of care and deploy, co-ordinate and supervise the nursing team and learners as required.
To provide leadership and management to a team of community nurses and other staff covering the four localities across Herts Valleys.
To be responsible for the teams assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised nursing care to patients living in a residential home. The service is provided seven days per week 8pm-8am
To be responsible for the teams maintenance of patient and other records
To participate in the long term management of patients within the locality
To have continued responsibility for a defined caseload.

Please refer to the attached job description for full list ofresponsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration
Practice Supervisor/Assessor or equivalent
Specialist Nursing Practice (District Nursing) Degree or will undertake training
Nurse Prescribing or will undertake training
Evidence of personal development

Desirable

First Level Degree
Independent Prescriber
Relevant courses in Long Term Conditions Management
Course of Top to Toe examination/ diagnosis experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration
Practice Supervisor/Assessor or equivalent
Specialist Nursing Practice (District Nursing) Degree or will undertake training
Nurse Prescribing or will undertake training
Evidence of personal development

Desirable

First Level Degree
Independent Prescriber
Relevant courses in Long Term Conditions Management
Course of Top to Toe examination/ diagnosis experience

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.