Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Inner North West | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40.27 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay + Unsocial hours |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | Various, SW6 4UL |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6334682/824-BANK-0190376 |
Summary
To provide high quality evidence-based care to patients attending with injuries and undifferentiated health problems. The post holder will be expected to work autonomously as a Nurse Practitioner delivering care to our patients.
Utilising expert diagnostic skills and clinical reasoning to provide autonomous, unscheduled care for patients presenting with acute undifferentiated conditions (most commonly minor injuries and ailments although some patients attending may present with complex health needs and / or acute on chronic conditions).
The post holder will deliver care in collaboration with Emergency services, other health care professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies.
To work in association with colleagues, including doctors and trainee ACPs, in defining standards of care and practice aimed at maintaining, developing or improving quality.
To work in collaboration with our other CLCH walk in centres, including occasional cross cover to other sites.
To work with the senior staff in the operational management and the organisational development of the service.
Are you keen to use your clinical skills in a rewarding community-based role but unable to commit to a permanent position right now?
This is an exciting time to join our bank, with a new friendly and supportive team. We can offer you regular yet flexible working patterns, that allow you to make a real difference to services and patients and become an integral part of a cohesive team. As the largest community NHS trust in London we can support you to develop your experience, working as part of multi-skilled teams across a huge range of different locations and care settings.
Essential criteria for this post
Applicants should either be on the SCPHN register or a registered nurse able to demonstrate at least 1 year of previous experience of community-based nursing work with skills covering wound care, catheters and medication administration.
A full UK driving licence and access to a car.
Why join?
· Earn more per hour - bank rates are higher than agency and include holiday pay. We also cover your expenses and provide free uniforms
· See the best shifts first – bank staff get priority over all agency workers
· Book the shifts you want on your phone – build your own rota on our bank booking system
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
stay well
manage their own health with the right support
avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Utilise advanced clinical and diagnostic skills and expert knowledge to carry out thorough assessments of physical and psycho-social needs of both Adults and Children in order to develop a comprehensive short term care plan aiming to optimising health and wellbeing of patients and where possible to prevent avoidable attendances/admissions to secondary care.
To act as role model ensuring that assessment and treatments conform to best practice as agreed through organizational or nationally accepted NHS guidelines issued from approved sources such as NICE.
To undertake the ‘first contact’ autonomous role through face-to-face client assessment and consultation.
Request or perform and interpret tests using clinical judgment and expertise.
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Jun 2024