Job overview

The Source is a nurse led clinic based on the Horn Park Estate providing local residents with easy access to health and well-being services.

We are looking for a motivated, dynamic and interactive advanced care practitioner who can lead on the delivery and support the continued development of the service. 

The postholder will need to be able to provide assessment and treatment to both adults and children over the age of 1.

The post holder will also be required to interact with both stakeholders and local residents to ensure that the services offered are meeting the needs to the local population.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the Service Lead in the development of the Source to meet the needs of the local populations, ensuring the highest possible standards of clinical practice. 

The post holder will be expected to deputise /jointly lead on delegated operational and clinical tasks.

The service works in a collaborative way with the local neighbourhood and the post holder will need to be involved in public engagement and communications strategies to support service development based on feedback from the local residents.

The post holder will act as an expert clinical resource to team members facilitating high quality evidence-based practise and ensuring patients appropriately access out of hospital community health and social care service as appropriate 

The post holder will be practising as a qualified ACP based at the Source (nurse led unit), this will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis, and treatment within an agreed scope of practice for both adults and children aged over 1 year old.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care