Main area Community Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 18 hours per week (18.00 hrs per week (4 x 4.5hrs/week Job ref 333-G-HC-1540
Site CNWL 3rd Floor, Beaufort House Town Uxbridge Salary £35,763 - £43,466 Pro rata per annum incl. HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 24/12/:59
Job overview
Band 5 nurses work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.
Band 5 nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
- keeping the people who are using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
- ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures
- ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process
Main duties of the job
An opportunity for a Staff Nurse wishing to work part time hours to join our friendly Twilight Team.
Our aim is to be the best we can, offering excellent person centred, safe and evidence based care to those who access our services. The Twilight District Nursing Team delivers "out of hours care" to people in their own homes and/or designated buildings. The team is made up of both staff nurses and healthcare support workers, who provide out of hours district nursing service.
You must hold a relevant Nursing Qualification with significant experience as a staff nurse. You must be a car driver and have access to a car for use at work with business insurance.
You will:
- perform joint visits to provide nursing care to patients allocated by a senior staff member
- take responsibility for the assessment, management and evaluation of evidence based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings, and promote effective teamwork within the wider Health Care Team
Part Time 4.5 hour shifts. 18.0 hours per week (4 x 4.5hrs shifts/week)
The service operates seven days a week between the hours of 16:30 -00:30
The post consists of 4.5 hour shifts. The shift starts at either 18:00 until 22:30hrs or 19:30 until 00:00hrs depending on the service needs. The contracted hours will be 18.0 hours.
Working for our organisation
Values
- Compassion - show a caring and kind environment
- Respect - acknowledge and welcome people's differences
- Empowerment - provide information, resources and support so others can make their own decisions
- Partnership - work in partnership with service users, families and commissioners
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience.
Job responsibilities:
- Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
- Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse, but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalating concerns when necessary
- Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
- Being open and transparent about their own practice
- Supervising the work of others
- Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
- Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
- Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements
- Competent and confident in all relevant clinical skills and willing to undertake such skills to meet service needs
Person specification Experience
- Demonstrable post graduate experience in a relevant area working with people with long term conditions
- Extensive post graduate experience in a role undertaking assessments of complex needs
- Experience of case management and care co ordination
- Demonstrable experience of clinical leadership
- Clinical experience of caring for people with cognitive impairment
- Experience of mentoring students
- Experience of audit evaluation to improve healthcare
Education and Qualifications
- Registered Nurse Level 1 with current registration with the NMC
- Evidence of working within multi-disciplinary teams
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
- An understanding of current health service issues
- Understanding of Primary Care
Knowledge
- Understanding of case management, case finding systems and care coordination
- An understanding of the wider NHS and social care contexts
- Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and DOLS
- Demonstrate an understanding of clinical governance
- Extended and advanced clinical knowledge base
- Understanding of Safeguarding Adults & Children
Skills and Abilities
- Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care
- Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor, seeking to instil and develop the confidence of others
- Ability to appraise complex situations and facts and take appropriate action
- Evidence of ability to direct and coordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively
- Ability to effectively delegate activities to appropriate staff
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to effectively negotiate on patient management and promote self care and across boundaries
- Evidence of ability to communicate both verbally and in writing at all levels in a multidisciplinary forum and with patients and carers
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- IT literate with ability to use technology and other digital solutions with patients and in the operation of the service
- Able to produce well written and timely clinical records and service reports
- Ability to travel to multiple sites; car driver or competent cyclist
- Motivational Interviewing skills
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
- Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
- Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
- Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
- If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Contact Information:
- Name: Hameed Ahmadi
- Job title: Twilight Team Lead
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