Senior Registered Nurse (Adult) – Community Nursing
Posting date: | 11 November 2024 |
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Salary: | Not specified |
Additional salary information: | £44,806 - £53,134 pa inc pro rata |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 11 December 2024 |
Location: | Camden, NW5 2BX |
Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | 6791924/333-G-CC-1398-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has become available in the East Integrated Neighbourhood Team for a senior nurse to join our Camden Integrated Community Healthcare (CICH) workforce in part time capacity. As an experienced Senior Community Nurse working in a Camden Integrated Neighbourhood Team you will provide nursing interventions to a range of housebound patients and help to manage their care supported by a skilled team of nurses. We are proactive in looking for innovative nurses who will facilitate the delivery of excellent community nursing care, the development of new ways of working and who want to progress their career.
Following the NHS long term plan, CICH is proud to lead on putting neighbourhoods at the heart of integrated care. The service is set up to deliver health interventions within the framework of the neighbourhood model, working in partnership with other key primary care providers and the local voluntary care sector organisations. This role will be based at East Integrated Neighbourhood team based at Kentish Town Health Centre, however the post holder would be expected to work across Camden DN service according to the needs of the service.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. 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.
Your role will include providing high quality care for patients in a community setting, you will work closely with the Band 7 Team Leader to review and manage a designated caseload of patients. This will include undertaking holistic assessments for complex patients, reviewing patient nursing care needs and supporting junior members of staff to undertake their role. We are looking for a Registered Nurse experienced at Band 6 level (or with substantial Band 5 clinical and managerial experience) to work in skill mixed, seven day a week nursing team. The team is supported by an overall Operational Lead in one of our five Integrated Locality Teams. We also have a range of Clinical Practice Educators and Professional Leads who are on hand for supervision and support. You will work alongside Complex Care Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, rehabilitation assistants pharmacy technicians, students and a dedicated mentor; as well as colleagues within Social Care, Mental Health, voluntary Sector and General Practice.
You will have access to and support from the wider expertise of our specialist teams including Evening and Overnight Nursing team, early supported discharge team, Rapid Response, Palliative Care, Tissue Viability, Bladder & Bowel, Community Stroke and Neurology team, Respiratory, Heart Failure and Diabetes teams, the in-patient wards: who all aim to work very collaboratively. Your role will include working closely with our GP colleagues and practices.
Benefits of working as a nurse for CNWL Camden:
• Substantial relocation package if eligible
• Inner London weighting
• Training and career development opportunities
• Opportunities for research and audit to support innovative practice
• Open to flexible working patterns
• Good opportunity for progression
CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing integrated high quality, innovative healthcare. Our track record in recruiting only the best people is well known, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
Camden is a vibrant home to one of London’s most visited tourist attractions: the markets, streets and shops that have grown around Camden Lock and its associated music venues. Camden as a Borough is diverse, containing Hampstead Heath and its famous swimming ponds, Holborn and parts of the West End, as well as a very colourful culture, ethnic makeup and a very wide socio-economic make up.
Job Summary:
Band 6 nurses work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 6 nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
• keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective clinical risk assessments
• ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures
• ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process
We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Band 6 nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team, drawing support from more experienced nurses and other health professionals but also by supervising junior staff and students nurses to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.
This advert closes on Monday 25 Nov 2024
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