DN Locality Service Lead | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,388 - £62,785 Per annual including HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Company: | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6213284/393-NMUH-1024-A |
Summary
The Locality Service Lead (District Nursing)will be responsible for the operational and clinical leadership of district nursing service within an Enfield geographical area to be determined and lead your teams to meet local and national performance targets as well as quality outcomes for the patient population.The post holder will be required to work at least 20% of their time in a clinical capacity.
You will manage teams of community nurses within a geographical area, including recruitment and appraisal in conjunction with Band 7 staff as appropriate. The post holder will provide strong professional, clinical, operational leadership and management to support the further development and of District Nursing and the integration of adult community nursing teams within the service. As such the post holder has an operational management and clinical leadership role in facilitating high-quality care and the professional development of the nursing staff.
The post holder will lead new ways of working and developing nurse-led services; they will be key in ensuring that based working is sustainable and well supported; ensuring that the nurses work across community nursing and with others within primary, secondary, and social care.
• Working closely with the service managers around service redesign and developing new ways of working
• Ensure resources (staff and financial) are prioritized appropriately and used effectively.
• To facilitate improvements in addressing health inequalities by utilizing a variety of initiatives
• Contributes to the development of evidence-based clinical standards, policies, and guidelines.
• Contributes to the strategic implementation of National Service Frameworks
• Able to make decisions based on specialist clinical advice from other practitioners and managers.
• Supports and facilitates multidisciplinary audits, development of care pathways and protocols, and other quality improvement processes.
• Supports the implementation of quality markers, ensuring that these are used to benchmark clinical care and raise standards.
• Work in collaboration with GP practices and other colleagues to lead service re-design initiatives to support commissioning requirements.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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• Work with senior staff to ensure that all first assessments, reassessments, joint assessments, and care plans are carried out effectively in line with ECS Policy
• Ensures nurse prescribing is carried out safely and effectively in line with ECS policy.
• Involves service users and carers in assessment and care planning and development of holistic care packages.
• Develop, review, and evaluate care pathways with other team members and other agencies when appropriate, including clinical risk assessment.
• Works with health and social care partners and commissioners to promote effective and holistic patient care.
• Ensures that patient participation and feedback are embedded in the care provided by the district nursing service leading in its own area and actively contributes to plans across the service and the directorate.
• Ensures effective communication systems are in place to support care programs and care pathways.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024
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