Senior Community Nurse - Band 6

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, Mile End, Tower Hamlets

Senior Community Nurse - Band 6

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EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, Mile End, Tower Hamlets

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 19 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: fa7c103ea4f14682951c33e38891c35d

Full Job Description

  • To work as part of a team ensuring all referrals are triaged and have a visit schedule for the appropriate service.
  • 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.

    Are you looking to progress your Clinical and leadership skills and be at the forefront of change?
  • 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 expected to have completed the District Nursing programme or have the willingness to complete the course. 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.

    Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.