Job summary
- Main area
- Out of hours district nursing service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Working hours from 16:30 to 00:30 hours
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 x 7.5 hours per week pro rata)
- Job ref
- 333-G-HC-1387
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ickenham Clinic
- Town
- Ickenham
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 Pro rata per annum inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 08:00
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Deputy Twilight Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated Community Nurse, with strong leadership qualities to lead a team of staff nurses and health care assistants in delivering high quality nursing care to a diverse caseload out of hours across Hillingdon. You must hold a relevant Nursing Qualification with experience as a senior staff nurse. You should be a car driver and have access to a car for use at work.
You will be based at “Ickenham clinic” and will be completing patient visits within the borough of Hillingdon. The twilight team comprises of both Staff Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, who provide out of hours routine nursing care. The Twilight service works 16:30 hours to 00:30 hours.
The post is for 22.5 hours a week (three shifts). The job is part of a job share between three members of staff; you will be required to help cover annual leave and sicknesses on occasions. You must be able to work flexibly to meet the service needs.
You will have a leadership role in the management of the twilight team, delegating activities appropriately and monitoring the quality of care given.
You will take responsibility for the assessment, management and evaluation of evidence based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings, promoting effective teamwork within the wider Health Care Team. You will be expected to identify and promote areas for service development.
Main duties of the job
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.
The Hillingdon Twilight Nursing Service provide nursing care to people in their own homes seven days a week between the hours of 16:30 and 00:30.
The Band 6 nurse co-ordinates the Twilight service and is responsible for the staff on duty, usually two band 5 nurses and three band 3 Healthcare Assistants.
Band 6 nurses work autonomously to provide a full range of services to house bound patients but are particularly skilled in wound care, catheter care, managing diabetes, medication administration, including intravenous medication administration and end of life care.
The role is interesting, varied and comprises both clinical and management duties. Band 6 nurses are expected to liaise with the District Nursing Teams to ensure seamless care. The distance nurses travel each evening is considerable and Band 6 nurse is required to be a car driver and have access to a car for work use.
Working for our organisation
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 6 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members.
As a Band 6 nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
As a band 6 nurse we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Band 6 nurses work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 6 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 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
- We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Band 6 nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team by being an effective role model and supervising other Band 5 nurses, healthcare assistants/ support workers and students to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse Adult
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience as a Band 6 nurse
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the people they are working with
- Manual Handling patients
- Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
Desirable criteria
- Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
- HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential criteria
- Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
- Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
Other
Essential criteria
- Access to a vehicle for use for work purposes
- Able to work efficiently in the community
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
- Hameed Ahmadi
- Job title
- Twilight Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07446897985
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