Bank B6 Community Nurse - Deputy Team Leader

· To provide skilled nursing care working as part of Central London Community nursing service to patients in a variety of community settings between the hours of 0830 and 2100 hours, including weekends.
· To actively monitor, maintain and develop the service provided.
· To take responsibility for managing the caseload and the team in the absence of the DN team lead.
· To deliver a case managed approach for patients with long term care needs.
· To actively participate in service development activities., + To act as an autonomous Named Nurse taking continued responsibility for first assessments and ongoing assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation of care given to individuals, groups of patients and their families.
+ To undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical, psychological, and social care needs of patients using assessment forms provided including the needs of carers
+ Actively work with the Community Matrons, team leads, GPs and others to identify patients with Long Term Conditions requiring proactive case management.
+ To provide specialist nursing skills such as leg ulcer assessment and management, syringe driver set up, intravenous drug administration, continence assessment and palliative care.
+ To act as the patient's advocate and to facilitate the patient's own choices with regard to nursing care, promoting independence and self-care, as appropriate., + To support patients and their carers with managing their medicines and undertaking medicines management reviews as directed.
+ To supervise and co-ordinate the team on a day-to-day basis and to manage the team in the absence of the team manager.
+ To actively participate in the teaching and support of junior staff and act as a preceptor for new staff in the locality.
+ To actively participate in clinical supervision on a regular basis in line with Trust guideline
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
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)

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

NHS AfC: Band 6
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.