Senior Community Nurse
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Job overview
Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London
Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)
Are you looking to progress your Clinical and leadership skills and be at the forefront of change? We are excited to offer a 1 year fixed term position to cover maternity leave.
We in the District Nursing team, have an ambitious vision for the Tower Hamlets community health service. We are striving to deliver high standards of care at the point of entry into our services, with the aim of improving access to the quality of life for all of our patients. One of our main aims is also to enable self care and independence.
Our staff are central to delivering the service vision and we are keen to recruit high calibre staff, who will be offered the support required to fulfill their roles as well as being provided with the training and experience to further their skills.
You will be a strong team player, an excellent communicator who is adaptable, committed, well organised and work well under pressure.
Having a sound clinical assessment skill and ability to effectively manage time is essential for the post.
Main duties of the job
- To work as part of a team ensuring all referrals are triaged and have a timely visit scheduled.
- To work as part of a team ensuring all new admissions to the Community Nursing services have a clinically robust assessment and patient focused care plan.
- This is borough wide cover.
- To introduce and enable self management and self care.
- To work as part of a team ensuring all patients have a safe handover to the professional and team to complete the care plan and measure the outcomes.
- To work in partnership with the locality teams and partner providers to maintain effective patient flow.
- To work within the financial resources for the patients and the service.
- To work shifts patters on a rota: (8am-4pm, 10am-6pm and 12pm-8pm) Monday to Sunday.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact the recruiting manager.