Bank Advanced Clinician Job Purpose - Monday to Friday

The service delivers high quality care to patients at in their own home with a primary purpose to prevent hospital attendance/ admission and facilitate early discharge from hospital. The service operates from 8am to 10pm, 7 days a week.
The post holder will work autonomously and in collaboration with Acute Trusts, the Adult Community Nursing Teams, other health care professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies to deliver excellent standards of patient care.
The post holder will be required to:
· Work on a rotational shift basis within the Herts Unplanned Care Team - service operating hours 8am 10pm 7 day a week.
· Be the clinical leader for designated shifts on a rotational basis responsible for day-to-day management of the service.
· Take designated responsibility for discrete areas of operational management, line management and clinical practice.
· Prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision., · Utilise advanced clinical and diagnostic skills and expert knowledge to carry out thorough assessments of physical and psycho-social needs in order to develop a comprehensive short term care plan aiming to optimise health and wellbeing that will prevent a hospital attendance/ admission or allow early discharge home.
· Provide direct advanced, autonomous clinical care to a range of patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed and/ or complex health needs and long term conditions.
· Work within Clinical Guidelines, Policies, Procedures and Patient Group Directions (PGD's) utilising expert judgment to work outside these frameworks where necessary.
· Carry out specialist clinical care and treatments based on best possible evidence that will improve health outcomes. This will include cannulation, administration of intravenous infusions and antibiotics, anticoagulation monitoring, palliative care interventions and catheter and bowel management.
· Deliver agreed clinical quality and performance standards within practice.
· To assess referrals to the team and respond within 2 hours to ensure adequate care and support for patients and carers.
· Be goal and outcome orientated, whilst maintaining a high level of performance.
· Work within the principles of the Single Assessment Process., Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

Please see attached Job Description for a comprehensive list of role specific duties and responsibilities
Both verbal and written communication skills, and experience of team working will be essential to the role. Strong interpersonal skills will also be essential. You must be an NMC registered, UK based nurse to apply for this role, as it is 'zero-hours' it does not attract visa sponsorship. You must also have at least 6 months acute experience.

NHS AfC: Band 7
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home., + 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
+ Get 24x7 support from our friendly Staff Bank team - a local team dedicated to helping you
+ Access NHS benefits - such as NHS pension contributions and discounts
+ Access Trust benefits - get support with your career development and mental health
+ Become part of an integrated team - feel more valued and supported in your work