Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse

Job overview

Job Overview

A vacancy has arisen with the South East Ambulatory Clinics for an enthusiastic individual to join our Clinic Team providing care to clients in various clinic settings across Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth.

You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to organise and prioritise your workload without direct supervision. Along with other Band 6 colleagues, you will support the Operational Manager in managing and coordinating aspects of care and service provision including case management within the team.

Past experience within a community setting is essential. You must have excellent leadership skills and possess the ability to lead a team.  You will be supported by the Lead Specialist Practitioner  and Operational Manager and through peer support from other Band 6 District Nurses within the team. There will opportunities for personal development through informal and formal learning, including the opportunity to complete V300 Prescribing Course if not already achieved.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

You will be part of the Ambulatory Clinic Team that covers the South East Alliance which includes Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth. The service provides treatments and assessments to non-housebound patients living within our community.

As a Band 6 within the team, you will be responsible for allocating planned appointments, triage new referrals received from our Local Access Point and prioritising those who need appointments sooner than others and be a leader within the team in order to support our Band 5's, 4's, 3's and 2's.

We are a proactive team, encouraging self care to those who visit our clinics and you will also manage a caseload ensuring that holistic assessments are robust,  and that patients are managed appropriately.

Please see the job spec for full details.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Candidates must be fully registered with the NMC, applicants who have only a pre-registration number need not apply and will not be shortlisted.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As per attached JD and Person Specification.

The Post holder will:

• Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the

• Demonstrate at all times the Partnership Trust Values of: “People, Empowerment and Partnership.”

• Be a Registered Nurse and have a detailed professional and clinical They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in the following areas;

• Palliative care

• Management of continence

• Administration of medication

• Management of long term conditions

• Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community and

• Be skilled in the assessment of complex/specialist care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support

• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.

• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to

• Work with the Operational Lead undertaking delegated tasks in team