Practice Development Nurse | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Kentish Town, NW52BX |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6176897/333-G-CC-1331 |
Summary
This exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Practice Development Nurse to lead on clinical excellence, patient safety and regulatory assurance in Camden District Nursing Service. Following National and local drivers for change there is a clear vision to integrate statutory and voluntary agencies more in the heart of the community to maximise their impact on enhancing access to services and reduce health inequalities. Camden Integrated District Nursing and Community Rehabilitation Teams have undergone a change consultation to align our services into a five-neighbourhood working footprint with a goal to be part of multiagency co located teams with statutory and voluntary partner agencies that communicate closely and coordinate services with Camden residents at the centre of their care.
This new nursing role has arisen for an experienced and motivated District Nurse Leader to support our teams of skilled Nursing, health care Support Workers, Complex Care Nurses and students delivering packages of care to housebound patients in camden. This is an exciting opportunity, at a time of change across all Camden community Services and an ideal chance to enhance and utilise your clinical and leadership skills in shaping the future of District Nursing practice into a neighbourhood model. You will need to be a highly motivated individual looking for a new challenge and should enjoy coordinating and communicating with a wide team of professionals. We work in close collaboration with our local authority partners and other providers in our places, and services are integrated both strategically and operationally at the point of delivery. You will be visible and accessible, and understand the need to maintain and where necessary improve clinical excellence and performance, bringing teams with you. You should bring significant district nursing and clinical leadership experience with an understanding of partnership working. You will be able to work autonomously to innovate excellence in Community District Nursing with a keen interest in quality, performance and fostering a learning environment through a Human Factors approach.
We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care through effective partnership working whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
Camden District Nursing Services works in a fully integrated model alongside our Community Rehabilitation Therapies teams to deliver joined up community health care for housebound patents across Camden. Camden Integrated Community Health Care is department within Camden Adult Integrated Services also includes The District Nursing Twilight Service, Community Vaccination Hub and Urgent Community Response ( Rapid Access Service, Discharge to Assess and the Virtual Ward). We have a strong leadership team across these services with a joined-up approach to learning and professional development opportunities.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
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
JOB PURPOSE
The post holder will be part of the Camden Integrated Community Health senior management team working alongside the Service Manager and Team Managers to achieve clinical nursing excellence, patient safety and regulatory assurance. This post will lead, innovate and manage community nursing practice in a neighbourhood model of working. The post holder will promote and develop quality and education of the service to improve clinical practice, governance, performance and quality improvement. As a Lead Nurse, you will be expected to adapt to any issues arising from the demands of the commissioned service. You will be part of a community team supporting five neighbourhoods where your proven ability to make high level clinical decisions and specialist District Nursing knowledge will aid patient outcomes and partnership working. You will provide support to the team in completing complex assessments and interventions and making high impact clinical decisions through supervision and mentoring. You will be expected to work autonomously whilst drawing assistance from other colleagues in primary and secondary care.
Key Responsibilities
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience.
Clinical Practice
Use advanced clinical skills and expert knowledge to ensure that nursing staff conduct thorough assessments of physical and psycho-social needs that enable the development of personalised care plans.
• Collaborative and system-wide working, creating links with acute wards, consultants, therapists and specialist teams
• Support nurses and play a leading role in measuring, monitoring and improving quality in nursing practice across CICH community District Nursing workforce who will be placed in five multidisciplinary neighbourhood teams.
• Support the prescribing policy and ensure that medicines safety mechanisms are maintained at all times
• Work alongside staff in delivering care to embed high standards of care, model excellence in practice and promote clinical education and development.
• Role model high standards of clinical practice, reflective practice and professionalism, leading reflective practice groups and providing clinical supervision across the service.
• Provide expert clinical advice within the service, and in the multi-agency context.
• Work collaboratively with the Camden Integrated Community Health Leadership team on the continuing development of a culture of high-quality care that both meets the needs of the patients and provides assurance across the service, ensuring that clinical quality and governance is owned by all CICH staff within the neighbourhood working model.
• Ensure involvement of patients and their carers both in decision-making to improve understanding of their health care needs, their rehabilitation and self-care and also in co-production to develop District Nursing into effective neighbourhood working.
• Ensure effective governance systems are embedded including high-quality clinical supervision for nursing staff.
• To ensure that the nursing care is delivered by the nursing team in a neighbourhood model of working is within the scope of District Nursing professional practice, is technically excellent, expressly personal and ensures patients and carers dignity is enhanced.
• To address distressing and emotional needs of patients and carers in an exemplary manner.
• To support and line manage staff in the management of complex care ensuring that risks are adequately assessed, minimised, translated into appropriate care plans and reported across the organisation as appropriate.
• To ensure that clinical practice is contemporary to meeting the needs of patients and families and develop the District Nursing Service in each neighbourhood to be responsive to the health needs within the heart of the community.
• To participate and develop nursing policy and standard setting in nursing practice.
• To ensure that a learning environment for clinicians is fostered through a human factor approach to incident management, audits, Quality projects, and partnership agreements.
• To ensure that adequate educational resources are available to educate teams to support learners in practice.
Leadership and Management
To support the effective operational running of services, providing a framework for achieving the organisational objectives. This will include the development of protocols, local policies and procedures, liaison networks and managerial structures within the nursing model of neighbourhood working.
• To ensure that services consistently achieve District Nursing performance targets as
• To ensure all staff report incidents on Datix and adopt a SCARF approach
To investigate and manage incidents in the services ensuring that learning from incidents is communicated to all staff following the PISIRF model.
• To ensure the effective use of the nursing workforce and assess safe staffing levels which reflect the necessary and appropriate skill mix across the neighbourhood teams.
• To ensure that the nursing workforce receives the appropriate clinical and management supervision, whilst liaising and supporting Neighbourhood Team Leaders.
• Encourage nursing staff to be proactive in contributing to team and service development
• Contribute to setting and monitoring the strategic direction of District Nursing in a neighbourhood model of working to ensure the sustainability of the service
• Manage and oversee complaints in accordance with Trust policy ensuring shared learning occurs and changes are made as appropriate through a SCARF approach.
• Deputise for the Operational Manager and cover for Neighbourhood Team Leaders as appropriate.
• Contribute to promoting a culture that enhances staff wellbeing, engagement and empowerment in the nursing workforce across five neighbourhood teams.
• Actively promote equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of Trust policies and strategies that help to achieve greater integration and empowerment
• To contribute to the recruitment and retention strategy of the nursing workforce within the service.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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