Senior Community Nurse - Nights | Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 11 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40,701 - £48,054 pro rata per annum including HACS (Outer) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2024 |
| Location: | Whitton, TW2 6JL |
| Company: | Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6221552/779-NN-5906044-NM-Z-D |
Summary
Are you ready for a new challenge? Could you make a difference?
Are you:
Interested in developing your nursing career
Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care
Compassionate towards patients and their families
An excellent communicator with the ability to lead and motivate a team
Highly motivated, energetic and innovative with full UK driving license holder with access to a car
An exciting opportunity has come up for the Adult Community Nursing Service for Band 6 Community Nurses with the Night team to work across the Hounslow and Richmond areas. The service operates from 1900 until 0700 across Hounslow and Richmond boroughs.
As a Senior Community Nurse you will assist the Community Lead Nurse in the management of a designated caseload, ensuring that holistic assessments are undertaken by a competent practitioner within the nursing team.
Get your career in the right direction, with the right organisation and at the right time – please come to HRCH and be part of this organisation.
To support the Locality Nursing Team Manager in the delivery of the locality nursing service in line with the commissioned service specification, standards, activity and outcomes, in the context of multi-disciplinary locality working.
Assisting the Locality Nursing Team Manager to provide line management and leadership for the community nursing team, being accountable for the team caseload and the development of a skilled, competent and motivated workforce, able to meet the needs of the patients on the caseload
Take a lead for a specific area of nursing practice, as a delegated responsibility, to ensure that less experienced nurses have access to best practice knowledge and expertise to inform and support their clinical practice.
Deputise in the absence of the Locality Nursing Team Manager , and undertake delegated tasks as development opportunities for succession planning.
This will involve working independently .
Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.
In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.
We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.
Infection Control
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
Informal visits (by appointment) are very welcomed, come and see what our teams do and discuss how you can join us
If you are looking for a role with variety, continuous support, encouragement, and genuine job satisfaction.
*****Please see attached the full Job Description and the Person Specification for the all themain responsibilities of this role.*****
This advert closes on Thursday 25 Apr 2024