Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hours worked across a 7 day working week between 8am and 8pm)
- Job ref
- 409-6601325
- Employer
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Helens Borough
- Town
- St Helens
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Nurse Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
We are looking to secure a registered Band 6 Nurse to join our established Community Nursing Team to deliver excellent health care across St Helens.
This role is vital in supporting our aim to provide exceptional patient care.
Successful applicants must be:
- Community experienced adult nurse and able to demonstrate extensive knowledge, analytical and the practical skills required
- Able to demonstrate delivery of quality care, through assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation
- An excellent communicator / listener, be non-judgmental and empathetic with patients, carers
- Able to work in partnership, liaising with health and social care professionals to ensure holistic patient care
- Dependable, committed and dynamic
- Flexible in meeting the needs of the service within the community setting
- Knowledge in implementing change, leading service improvement
- Committed to improve the health, wellbeing and independence of residents within the borough of St Helens
An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.
Main duties of the job
- To provide skilled nursing care and advice to patients in their own homes and elsewhere e.g., residential homes to undertake a comprehensive specialist assessment of patients using research to underpin their practice.
- To demonstrate the promotion of healthy lifestyle practices to the public by the utilisation of their teaching skills.
- Manage clinical caseloads efficiently and effectively.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex and urgent situations.
- To contribute to quality improvements via clinical governance, clinical supervision, and essence of care.
- To respect confidential information obtained during your work and refrain from discussing such information without the consent of the patient / client or a person entitled to act on their behalf, except where disclosure is required by Law or by the order of a Court or is necessary in the public interest.
- To liaise with other disciplines and members of the Primary Health Care Team in the provision of patient care.
- Maintain clear, concise, legible, and contemporaneous patient records always, in line with Trust Policies and Procedures and Standards for record keeping NMC.
- Under the Data Protection Act, staff using computers will be required to ensure that security procedures are followed.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programm
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- To provide skilled nursing care and advice to patients in their own homes and elsewhere e.g., residential homes to undertake a comprehensive specialist assessment of patients using research to underpin their practice
- To demonstrate the promotion of healthy lifestyle practices to the public by the utilisation of their teaching skills
- Manage clinical caseloads efficiently and effectively
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex and urgent situations
- To contribute to quality improvements via clinical governance, clinical supervision, and essence of care.
- To respect confidential information obtained during your work and refrain from discussing such information without the consent of the patient / client or a person entitled to act on their behalf, except where disclosure is required by Law or by the order of a Court or is necessary in the public interest
- To liaise with other disciplines and members of the Primary Health Care Team in the provision of patient care
- Maintain clear, concise, legible, and contemporaneous patient records always, in line with Trust Policies and Procedures and Standards for record keeping NMC
- Under the Data Protection Act, staff using computers will be required to ensure that security procedures are followed
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Registered practitioners who are non-medical prescribers are accountable for their prescribing activities by ensuring they are aware of their Professional accountability and any restrictions or special considerations in their prescribing practice
- Maintain and utilise advanced clinical skills to analyse and interpret history of illness, presenting symptoms and physical findings to enable diagnosis, planning and treatment of the patient
- To implement nursing care as per care plan as discussed with the Team Manager and to make accurate observations of the physical, mental, social conditions of the patient and / or carer
- To implement care based on research and from any post registration course undertaken
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure patient records are kept up to date and accurate and recording is done in line with Trust policies and procedures
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
- To ensure that their skills / knowledge is up to date and that continuing education and development is paramount to practice
- Ensure that all mandatory training is accessed and kept up to date
- To be aware of any changes in policy / procedure of the Trust
LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Delivering change within own sphere of practice when and were indicated to improve service
- The post holder will be expected to prioritise own workload and ensure effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice and that of others
- Effecting change within own sphere of practice when and were indicated
- Making recommendations to improve services
- Influencing, motivating, supporting, and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of Community Health Services
- To train, supervise and develop junior staff through clinical supervision and mentoring
RESEARCH & AUDIT
- Qualified Nurses are required to evidence maintenance of their registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and work to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- To ensure nursing care is evidence based
- To participate in clinical audits.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current NMC Registration
- Evidence of post graduate study in specialist area of practice
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialist area of practice
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of local, National, professional policies/guidance
- Demonstrate an understanding of own scope of practice and the implications for self and others
- Ability to recognise own behaviour and its impact on others
- Evidence of understanding and the application of leadership and management principles
- Experience of supervising / mentoring others
- Evidence of introducing service developments and innovation
- Demonstrate the application of research and evidence based practice within specialist field
- Demonstrate experience of problem solving approaches
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to delegate & coordinate
- Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively
- Demonstrate experience of managing difficult situations
- Good organisational/time management skills
- Ability to identify risk and minimise risk effectively
- Ability to reflect on experiences and apply lessons learnt to self and others
- Computer literate relevant to post
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability and willingness to travel in the course of performing duties
- Flexible approach to working
- Ability to demonstrate core values
- Demonstrate a commitment to respecting and displaying the Trust values at all times.
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
- Hannah Houghton
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01744 621700
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