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Job summary

Main area
Community Nursing
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
779-NN-6470985-N&M-Z
Employer
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Richmond
Town
East Sheen/ Teddington
Salary
£40,701 - £48,054 per annum including HCAS (outer)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/07/2024 23:59

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Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Senior Community Nurse- Richmond and Hounslow

Band 6

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From the autumn, HRCH community services for Hounslow will be provided by West London NHS Trust. HRCH will continue to provide community services in the borough of Richmond.

HRCH is a great place to work, and we're committed to staff development, so if you're interested in joining our team, we encourage you to apply.

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Job overview

Are you ready for a new challenge? Could you make a difference?

Are you:

Interested in developing your nursing career

Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care

Compassionate towards patients and their families

An excellent communicator with the ability to lead and motivate a team

Highly motivated, energetic and innovative with  full UK driving license holder with access to a car

An exciting opportunity has come up for the Adult Community Nursing Service for Band 6 Community Nurses to work across the  Richmond area. The service operates from 7am until 7pm across  Richmond borough, with a vacancy  at  Centre House, SW14 8LP and Teddington TW11 0LR

As a senior community nurse you will assist the Community Team Manager in the management of a designated caseload, ensuring that holistic assessments are undertaken by a competent practitioner within the nursing team.  

The Trust is passionate in developing the staff by providing a robust and comprehensive training programme to  build your nursing career. Trainings on offer are the following: District Nursing specialist training sponsorship, V150/300 Non-Medical Prescriber, Physical assessment, Leadership and Management  Programme, and band 6 developmental training amongst other things.

Get your career in the right direction, with the right organisation and at the right time – please come to HRCH and be part of this organisation.

Main duties of the job

To support the Locality Nursing Team Manager in the delivery of the locality nursing service in line with the commissioned service specification, standards, activity and outcomes, in the context of multi-disciplinary locality working.

Assisting the Locality Nursing Team Manager to provide line management and leadership for the community nursing team, being accountable for the team caseload and the development of a skilled, competent and motivated workforce, able to meet the needs of the patients on the caseload

Take a lead for a specific area of nursing practice, as a delegated responsibility, to ensure that less experienced nurses have access to best practice knowledge and expertise to inform and support their clinical practice.

Deputise in the absence of the Locality Nursing Team Manager , and undertake delegated tasks as development opportunities for succession planning. 

This will involve working independently 

Working for our organisation

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.

In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.

Infection Control

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

*****Please see  attached the full Job Description and  the Person Specification for the all the main responsibilities of this role.*****

For more information please contact Claire Moloney, Service Manager Richmond

[email protected]

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Qualified RGN (Registered General Nurse - Adult) with current registration with NMC - Part1.
  • Relevant post registration study at diploma/degree level and relevant CPD e.g. palliative care, tissue viability
Desirable criteria
  • Diploma or BSc (Hons) Community Health (DN)
  • Clinical Assessment Skills
  • Nurse Prescriber V150 (willing to undertake)
  • Mentorship Preceptorship or equivalent (willing to undertake)
  • Specialist Practice Teacher/ Teaching Qualification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of the impact of Mental Health e.g. dementia, depression, on the management of medical and long term conditions
  • Professional standards including confidentiality, clinical governance and NMC guidelines
  • Infection prevention and control standards
  • Risk assessment and management
  • Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of current legislation and its implications for this role, including performance indicators and targets
  • Understanding of both the Health and Social Care agenda

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating patients in their own homes
  • Experience in problem solving and supporting other team members
  • Experience of Multidisciplinary team work
  • Experience of providing supervision
  • Experience of mentoring students
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of managing resources to stay within the service budget
  • Experience of audit evaluation

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to manage the day to day running of the team, use initiative and delegate tasks to appropriately trained staff
  • Ability to lead by example, both clinically and managerially, being consistent and fair to all staff in every aspect of work
  • IT literate with ability to use databases and other software packages
  • Ability to work under pressure, balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
  • Core clinical skills medicines management including IV, venepuncture, continence, chronic disease management, palliative care, wound management
  • Holistic assessment, core clinical, clinical reasoning and care planning skills to proactively manage patient care
  • . Able to produce well written and timely clinical records and service reports

Personal

Essential criteria
  • Reliable, empathetic, approachable, understanding, non-judgemental and tolerant
  • Ability to travel to multiple sites; car driver
  • Ability to undertake a shift system
  • Has a positive attitude to change and is prepared to work flexibly to meet the need of people and the service
  • Demonstrates high ethical and professional standards

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardTrust IDCapital Nurse, LondonNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident employerNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkDisability Advice Line

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Vanessa Long
Job title
Assistant Business Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8487 1625
Additional information

Informal visits (by appointment) are very welcomed, come and see what our teams do and discuss how you can join us

If you are looking for a role with variety, continuous support, encouragement, and genuine job satisfaction.

Additional contact information

Claire Moloney (Richmond Service Manager) 

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