Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 448-LCA-6255104
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Poynt
- Town
- Luton
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/05/2024
Employer heading
Lead Nurse
Band 7
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Job overview
This post provides an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, strategic and dynamic individual to join our community team.
You will join a team where your role will be to support and lead staff to deliver safe, evidence based care to patients in the Luton community whilst being proactive in promoting a positive image of community nursing.
Within this role you will also be working closely with other services within the organisation, integrated teams, key stakeholders and partners.
(Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised).
Main duties of the job
To manage the day to day requirements of the Team, provide professional advice within their area of practice and recognise when to seek advice when not within their area of professional practice.
To ensure that referrals, admission and discharges are managed appropriately and effectively. Ensuring that resources are matched efficiently to client and service needs.
To foster a continuous service improvement ethos, challenging traditional methods of care delivery, managing innovation and appropriate change within the nursing team..
Manage team performance, and create an environment that enables the nursing team to challenge all aspects of patient care and in which effective practice is fostered, implemented, evaluated and disseminated.
Ensure appropriate off-duty rotas are managed accordingly taking into consideration the skill mix required in response to expected and unexpected caseload or the service needs of the locality.
To ensure adherence to Trust policies, standards and procedures. To participate and lead, as appropriate in their local implementation and quality assurance initiatives.
To support the Senior Management Team in workforce planning and subsequent recruitment and retention.
To work in partnership with other agencies and providers to enable seamless care.
To ensure that the team are aware of all the key performance indicators that relate to the service and that they are met.
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide leadership and management to a multidisciplinary Community Nursing team, providing a multidisciplinary holistic approach, ensuring provision of high quality, effective, well-co-ordinated and responsive care to the changing needs of patients and the local population.
To demonstrate effective leadership by taking an active role with the professional development of the workforce, improve standards and promote good practice and clinical effectiveness, lead and manage change through a multi-skilled team approach, supporting the re-shaping of services in line with local / national policy.
To work in an integrated way with partner agencies to ensure the highest quality delivery of care. To facilitate putting the patient at the centre of care, avoiding duplication of assessments and treatment, managing long term conditions in a proactive way to avoid crisis and unnecessary hospital admission.
For further duties and responsibilities, please refer to JD and PS attached.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- RGN /ECP / Paramedic (HCPC) with current registration
- Specialist post graduate education to degree level or equivalent in relevant specialist area e.g Pg(dip) DN / Chronic disease management
- Evidence of relevant ongoing CPD
- MSPP or equivalent
- Independent Nurse Prescribing or willingness to undertake.
Desirable criteria
- Commitment to undertake appropriate education at master’s level.
- Community Specialist practice teacher qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary Primary Health Care Team.
- significant post registration experience working in the community setting
- Understanding and experience of staff and resource management
- Able to demonstrate experience and a knowledge of clinical / governance and audit
- Evidence of involvement in project development work or health promotion group work
- Experience of managing patients with Acute/Chronic long term conditions.
Desirable criteria
- DN community experience
- Experience of working within a diverse population
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of effective communication skills at a senior level to both internal and external agencies
- Ability to lead a team and to work as an autonomous practitioner
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work across organisational boundaries
- Systematic approach to work and ability to prioritise and manage time
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
- Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings
- Encourages others to express themselves openly
- Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems
- Shows respect for others’ feelings, views and circumstances
- In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down.
- Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so
- Listens to personal comments without becoming defensive
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
- Eleanor Lyon
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07980 735121
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