Bank Band 7 ENP

· To provide high quality evidence-based care to patients attending with injuries and undifferentiated health problems. The post holder will be expected to work autonomously as a Nurse Practitioner / ENP/ACP delivering care to our patients

• Utilising expert diagnostic skills and clinical reasoning to provide autonomous, unscheduled care for patients presenting with acute undifferentiated conditions (most commonly minor injuries and ailments although some patients attending may present with complex health needs and / or acute on chronic conditions).
• The post holder will deliver care in collaboration with Emergency services, other health care professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies.
• To work in association with colleagues in defining standards of care and practice aimed at maintaining, developing, or improving quality.
• To work with the senior staff in the operational management and the organisational development of the service.
• Work shifts within the service during the operating hours.
• Prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision.
• Act as the Shift Leader on a rotational basis assuming responsibility for day-to-day management of the service.
• Take designated responsibility for discrete areas of operational management/clinical practice.
• Communicate highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers, and other staff., Assessment and management of patients with Respiratory tract infections.
• Assessment and management of patients presenting with minor gastrointestinal or urological presentations.
• To act as a triage assessment clinician, rapidly identifying and prioritizing patients requiring immediate or urgent care.
• Providing prompt emergency treatment and organizing emergency transfer to secondary care for patients requiring urgent care which cannot safely be provided within the Urgent Care Centre.
• Be aware of, and act in accordance with, the NMC/HCPC /Code of Conduct or relevant regulatory body, Standards and Guidelines.
• Deliver agreed clinical quality and performance standards within the services.
• Be goal and outcome orientated, whilst maintaining a high level of performance., To be conversant with all Human Resources policies and procedures for taking appropriate managerial action if required.
• Be aware of, and act in accordance with CLCH's clinical, operational and organisational policies and guidelines.
• Ensure that policies, procedures, clinical governance arrangements and lines of accountability are adhered to by the Urgent Care Centre/ walk in centre teams to ensure safe and effective clinical service delivery.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records.
• As Shift/team Leader monitor, report and manage performance outcome measures, escalating to Clinical Leads as required.
• Complete statistical returns as required by CLCH including entering data onto the computerised systems within the required time frames.
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)

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., 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.