Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1327
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lisson Grove Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £27.48 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 05/11/2024 14:00
Employer heading
Bank Community Matron
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Job Purpose
- To co-ordinate care provision through a case management approach with the aim to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate timely discharge. The caseload supports patients with multiple co-morbidities including frailty, COPD, Parkinson’s, diabetes, dementia, and CHD.
- To provide the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs and instigate and provide clinical treatments based on evidence-based practice.
- To participate in the delivery of educational programmes to patients, carers and health and social care workers that promotes self-care principles.
- To develop and promote robust multidisciplinary team (MDT) working across the wider Health and Social care sectors, including care homes, to ensure integrated service and support networks for patients.
- To monitor the quality-of-care provision and to identify and promote areas for service development. To be the named Community Matron for a Primary Care Network (PCN), providing support and care coordination for the wider health team within the network.
- To provide clinical leadership and support to end of life pathways, including the Universal Care Planning (UCP) framework.
Main duties of the job
- To work in partnership with community health, social care and third sector organisations including care homes. Proactively case finding with GPs, district nursing colleagues and providing links across community nursing.
- Working closely with care home aligned GPs and care home staff to support and offer your expert advice.
- To work in partnership with acute Trusts through attending at high intensity user forums, linking with frailty and discharge teams and London Ambulance Service.
- To support and coordinate the Westminster Integrated Domiciliary Service.
- To work as a member of a PCN in line with the Westminster Integrated Care Partnership and the NWL Integrated Care Systems.
- Liaise closely with NWL Leads and CLCH Academy on any new initiatives and training to support the service.
Working for our organisation
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
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stay well
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manage their own health with the right support
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avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To use advanced skills and expert knowledge to carry out a thorough assessment and history taking, including a systematic physical examination, in order to develop a comprehensive care plan.
- To initiate, and provide, advanced clinical / therapeutic care treatments, in partnership with other providers, based on best possible evidence that will improve health outcomes.
- To use advanced clinical skills and expert knowledge to proactively identify subtle changes in a patient’s condition as early as possible and to manage these in a manner that optimises well-being.
- To take overall responsibility for coordinating the care, treatment, and complex health funded packages of care for case managed patients in a variety of settings. This includes planning, developing, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing specialised programmes of health interventions for case managed patients.
- To review and complete UCPs for patients.
- To work within the principles of the Single Assessment Process.
- To maintain responsibility if a patient is admitted to an in-patient facility. This includes actively accessing the acute sector to provide base line health data to appropriately the receiving team and initiating early discharge for case managed patients.
- To appropriately refer patients for a range of physical and functional tests and assessments, in order to inform decision making and care pathway development.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Commitment to study at master’s level
Desirable criteria
- Non-medical prescriber (or willing to undertake)
- Relevant post-registration qualification (e.g., advanced clinical assessment skills, district nursing specialist qualification, frailty)
- Case management qualification (or willing to undertake)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-registration experience at a senior level
- Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision
- Extensive experience of assessing and providing care to people with complex long-term conditions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of MDT working
- Experience of report writing
- Experience of working collaboratively with care homes
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of a high level of clinical skills and expertise
- Extensive bio-medical knowledge across a range of long-term conditions
- Detailed knowledge of Primary Health Care and national/local policies
Desirable criteria
- Experience of completing Complex Geriatric Assessments (C.G.A.)
- Experience of completing Universal Care Plans (U.C.P.)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shanelle Green
- Job title
- Bank Recruitment Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02039378322
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