Lead Nurse Community / District Nursing Camden

This leadership opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Senior District Nurse to lead one of our Integrated District Nursing and Therapies Teams in Camden. Camden Integrated District Nursing and Community Rehabilitation Teams are aligned into a neighbourhood working footprint with a goal to be part of multiagency co located teams ,with statutory and voluntary partner agencies that communicate closely and coordinate services with Camden residents at the centre of their care. The post holder will be initially based in Gospel Oak Health Centre to manage the North Camden Integrated Neighbourhood District Nursing and Therapies Team .Our neighbourhood teams are led by either Senior District Nursing or Therapy staff who work closely together , to ensure a robust clinical supervision matrix across the professional scope of practice. The post holder will provide specialist District Nursing leadership being responsible for the operational management of the team, ensuring the coordination of, Service priorities include: admission avoidance / managing people safely in their own home, implementation of models for integrated primary care neighbourhood working and integration with GP practices; overseeing the next stages of developments in delivering care to housebound patients in Camden. As the lead Nurse, you will be expected to be a Senior Nurse Lead who is able to adapt to any issues arising from the demands of the commissioned service. You will be part of a community team where your proven ability to make high level clinical decisions will aid patient outcomes and partnership working. The service has undergone radical change to move into neighbourhoods teams. There is vision foe each team to work towards a co located model with other statutory and voluntary agencies as the model develops and grows. The post holder will lead a skill mixed neighbourhood of integrated community nursing and Therapy staff with clinical support form band 8a Therapy lead peers.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings., The service sits in the Camden Integrated Community Health Services (CICH) which includes Urgent Community Response, Twilight District Nursing, The Vaccination Hub and four other District Nursing and Community Rehabilitation teams across 5 sites in Camden. CICH forms part of the wider Camden Integrated Adult Services which comprises all adult Community Services provided in Camden. to include Long term Conditions, Palliative Care, Tissue Viability and Bladder &Bowel, Virtual Ward and the St Pancras rehabilitation Unit. In Camden we have developed a range of patient pathways to treat patients at home to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge. The team work closely with a range of co-located therapy, nursing, pharmacy, paramedic, social services and medical colleagues., + Work closely with the acute trusts as the patients require.
+ Manage the effective coordination and continuity of patient care working closely with external agencies and community colleagues.
+ Manage the workforce planning in the team, managing recruitment and selection of personnel and ongoing performance management including appraisals and objective setting.
+ Manage the governance of the service covering the investigation of complaints and incidents to ensure lessons learnt are shared and implemented.
+ To manage the clinical performance of nursing staff, ensuring that their interventions are commensurate with the required competency
+ Manage relationships with the acute trust and partner community providers communicating regularly and working together to develop joint processes and policies.
+ Establish effective communication links with community colleagues supporting integrated working to manage smooth a hand over of care.
+ Co-lead on the service development of the team implementing QI and SCARF principles to maximise productivity and extending the remit of team into other areas of working.
+ Manage the development of new policies and processes to support the development and appropriate governance of the service.
+ Manage, analyse and interpret data associated with the team and make suggestions for improvements based on reported statistics and facts.
+ Plan the staffing of the service based on activity and needs of the patients in line with budget restrictions.
+ Manage the service budget to deliver a year end surplus.
Clinical
+ To ensure nursing care delivered by the team is technically excellent, expressly personal and ensures patients and carers dignity is enhanced.
+ To address distressing and emotional need of patients and carers in an exemplary manner.
+ To undertake highly skilled and complex nursing activities directly related to the assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care.
+ To make skilled clinical decisions and communicate the rationale clearly.
+ To ensure effective implementation of infection control policies.
+ To provide effective clinical supervision day to day for nurses within the team.
+ To fulfil the requirements of NHS continuing care for the patients on their caseload.
+ To support and line manage staff in the management of complex care ensuring that risks are adequately assessed, minimised, translated into appropriate care plans and reported across the organisation as appropriate.
+ To ensure that clinical practice is contemporary to meeting the needs of patients and families.
+ To ensure that each patient has a comprehensive assessment of need, including risk assessment and that their care is culturally sensitive and addresses issues of diversity.
+ To provide health information and health promotion for patients and their families on the caseload.
+ To take responsibility for prescribing such treatments as deemed professionally appropriate in line with the British National Formulary, local formularies and within the CNWL Camden Provider Services prescribing governance framework, having completed a recognised Prescribing Educational Programme.
+ To participate and develop policy and standard setting.
+ To ensure robust systems for clinical governance within their team.
+ To participate in resource projects and health promotion programmes as requested.
+ To work closely with the acute trust, GP, nursing and therapy colleagues to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions.
+ Attend regular MDM / MDT meetings with Acute Services, nursing, therapists, social services and GP Practices as appropriate.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

patient care, alongside the appropriate deployment of nursing and therapy staff to meet the needs of patients. This role requires excellent patient-centred clinical, leadership, organisational, time management and communication skills.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
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