Senior Practitioner District Nurse - Neighbourhood Nursing

We are looking for a forward-thinking and motivated nurse to join the Neighbourhood Nursing teams across Lambeth and Southwark areas. We are the first Trust in the UK to trial the Buurtzorg District Nursing Model: an entirely Nurse-led approach to patient care in the community with self-managed nursing teams. You will find yourself working in a completely different way. You must demonstrate excellent communication and team working skills. Through clinical case management you will care for patients with long-term conditions, those at risk, end of life care needs, and those with supported self-care programmes. There will be training and opportunities in addition to clinical supervisions and appraisals. The post holder must be able to undertake a prescribing course and advanced assessment courses once in post. Working on a 7-day shift service (hours between 8.00 - 20.00), this post also includes rotational weekend work (maximum two per month)., The Neighbourhood Nurse participates in the clinical case management of patients who have a wide variety of complex, high-risk and supported/self-care conditions. As a team leader, you will ensure the provision of a high standard of nursing care and health promotion. Duties include:

• Holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care. For example, Chronic Disease Management, Tissue viability, Palliative Care, Nurse Prescribing, Extended and Supplementary Prescribing.
• First contact assessment, care and referral.
• Continuing care, rehabilitation and delivering the National Service Frameworks.
• Providing public health, health promotional programmes to improve health and reduce inequalities.
• Maintaining contemporaneous written and computerised records., You will have the opportunity to further develop and enhance your skills with the support and training available by working alongside experienced nurses and specialists. We have a supportive culture to encourage each other to strive to be the best within our daily practice. Our feedback as a team reflects this.
  
  Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.