Job summary
- Main area
- District nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Secondment: 1 year (till end of June 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (flexible working available as this is a 5 day service)
- Job ref
- 333-G-HC-1365
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Beaufort house
- Town
- Uxbridge
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Nurse for District Nurse Service & Guided Care Matrons
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Band 8a Lead Nurse for District Nursing and Guided Care Matrons
To work in collaboration with partner organisations providing strong operational nurse leadership to the District Nurse (DN), Guided Care Matrons as part of the Care Connection Team (CCT) to ensure the delivery of high standards of patient centred nursing care for the residents of Hillingdon.
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.
Main duties of the job
Due to staff career progression an opportunity has arisen for a 1 year secondment to co-lead the Hillingdon District Nurse and Care Connection Teams (CCT) . Alongside three other leads, you will be responsible for the leadership, management and development of the District Nurse Service and the Guided Care Matrons and Care Co-ordinators within the Care Connection Teams (CCT).
The District Nurse Teams provide community-based care to housebound, people over 18 years old that require nursing input. They also support ambulant patients that require complex wound dressings in community-based clinics.
The Care Connection Teams are part of the Hillingdon Health Care Partnership (HHCP) . They proactively support people over 18 years old that have long term conditions and are at risk of hospital admission. The Care Connection Teams are aligned to neighbourhoods, based in GP practices. They are a team comprised of Guided Care matrons, GP’s, Care Co-ordinators, Pharmacists, Health and Well-being Officers and Mental Health Nurses.
Interview Date: TBC at Beaufort House, Floor 3, Cricket Field Road, Uxbridge, UB8 1QG
Interview’s will consist of Q&A,
Working for our organisation
The successful candidate will join a friendly, experienced, supportive team of Service Leads. You will be one of a team of four Service Leads based at Beaufort House in Uxbridge for a 1 year secondment.
Service Leads are encouraged to be innovative and committed to service improvements including playing an active role in change management.
CNWL offers a wide array of training and professional opportunities and actively works to be a support staff to be well at work, offering robust staff health & well being services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be responsible for ensuring all aspects of the day to day operational delivery of the District Nurse Service& Guided Care/Care Co-ordinator element of the CCT’s. You will be expected to be visible, providing clinical support when necessary. You will be working alongside senior management, commissioners, the CCG and multi-agency providers, families and carers.
You will be expected to work closely with managers from partner organisations to line manage the Guided Care Matrons and Care Co-ordinators to meet CCT targets. You will need to be forward thinking and able to provide integrated leadership. This role requires excellent leadership, organisational, time management and communication skills. This role provides an opportunity to play an integral role in shaping community services for the future.
The successful candidate's main duties will be:
- Act as a role model- demonstrating CNWL core values
- Day to day operational management of the District Nurse, Guided Care Matron and Care Co-ordinators.
- Act as a point of escalation
- Manage the service to consistently meet targets and KPI's
- Over see the service budgets
- Manage quality Governance to provide a safe effective service
- Promote innovation
- Engage with Patients, relatives and carers to ensure services meet their needs
- Support the Adult Services Manager
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post-registration clinical experience at a senior level
- Experience of working in a community environment providing care to people with long-term conditions
- Experience in management, quality improvement, audit and evaluating clinical nursing services
- Experience of providing Clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experince of working in acute and or speicailist nursing settings
- Other clinical leadership/ improvement leader experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge across a range of long-term conditions, including stroke and rehabilitation
- Knowledge of current NHS organisational structures and policy initiatives
- Knowledge of implementing and monitoring service outcome measures
- Knowledge of clinical governance and quality improvement processes, risk assessment and personal accountability
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of safeguarding MCA legislation
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse – current NMC registration
- Evidence of ongoing and recent post-registration training and education.
- Post-registration qualification in district nursing or other relevant practice and/or advanced nursing practice
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in teaching or practice based learning (desirable)
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
- Advance nurse practitioner qualification qualification
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
- Kaye Joslin
- Job title
- Clinical service manager & lead nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07894329510
- Additional information
Kaye Joslin's working hours are Tuesday to Friday 08:00 - 18:00
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