Job summary
Intermediate Care Southwark is an integrated health and social care service. The post holder will be required to work across Southwark Adult Social Care and GSTT integratively to deliver services to residents in the London Borough of Southwark. The aim of this intermediate care service is to provide community based care and rehabilitation to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, facilitate hospital discharges and to promote independence within the local population.
The team includes: Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, Rehabilitation Support Workers (RSW), Senior RSWs, Therapy Assistants (TAs), and Business Support. Your role will be to provide specialist nursing for clients allocated to our service. This will primarily but not exclusively include holistic nursing, management of pressure care, education around long-term conditions, continence assessments and support with medication management. The post holder will be based at Queens Road, Peckham.
Nursing staff currently operate on different shift patterns to cover core hours between 9.00-17.00 hours with a requirement to cover on-call shifts from 18:00-20:00 Monday to Sunday. To support the service's commitment to meeting client needs and delivering excellence, it is essential the post holder be able to work their hours flexibly and contribute fully to existing rosters.
Closing date: 03/12/2023
Interview date: 11/12/2023
Main duties of the job
Professional / Clinical Responsibilities
- To be competent in using a wide variety of specialised assessment and treatment approaches with adults with a range of conditions, including those with severe physical and cognitive impairment in order to formulate treatment plans, maximise rehabilitation potential and set goals.
Management and Leadership
- To monitor the quality of nursing/rehabilitation services offered and contribute to the development and review of quality measures and performance indicators.
Communication
- To be skilled in communicating, using both verbal and non-verbal means, with clients, carers and families who may have a range of physical disabilities or other barriers to understanding.
- To offer advice and communicate written and verbal information to clients/ carers and agencies including other health professionals regarding a client's management.
Education, Training & Mentorship
- To educate referrers and clients about the services the team offers.
Audit, Benchmarking & Research
- To monitor the quality of services offered by the team and when areas of development are identified, to implement an action plan to address these under the direction of the Clinical Manager.
Personal & Professional Development
- To reflect on practice at all times and to effectively participate in clinical supervision.
- To maintain Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registration and to work within NMC code of conduct.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals
- Guy's Hospital
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Evelina London Children's Hospital
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Harefield Hospital;
As well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
GSTT Values are to:
Put patients first | Take pride in what we do | Respect others | Strive to be the best | Act with integrity
The team is a vibrant multidisciplinary, integrated team that that supports each other to share knowledge, skills and expertise. Through strong team relationships with our Adult Social Care partners, we work to meet the needs of people living in the London Borough of Southwark.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached JD for details:
Professional / Clinical Responsibilities
- To be professionally and legally responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of treatment delivered to the client to ensure a high standard of clinical care.
- To work as an autonomous lone practitioner, case managing clients in the community and coordinating their care.
- To carry out timely assessment and rehabilitation of community clients to prevent hospital admission or re-admission and facilitate early discharge home from hospital.
Management and Leadership
- To deputise in some tasks in the absence of the Senior Specialist Nurse if required.
Communication
- To work in a client centred manner with mutually agreed goals, appointments and rehabilitation programmes.
- To communicate effectively with clients, carers and family members and to develop effective working relationships with the multidisciplinary team and external agencies.
Education, Training & Mentorship
- To induct, supervise, appraise and teach students on placements within the team.
Audit, Benchmarking & Research
Personal & Professional Development
- To use evidence based practice to develop and maintain a high quality clinically effective and cost-effective service.
- To identify and be responsible for own training needs as well as identifying team training needs and supporting development of others.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached JD for details:
Professional / Clinical Responsibilities
- To be professionally and legally responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of treatment delivered to the client to ensure a high standard of clinical care.
- To work as an autonomous lone practitioner, case managing clients in the community and coordinating their care.
- To carry out timely assessment and rehabilitation of community clients to prevent hospital admission or re-admission and facilitate early discharge home from hospital.
Management and Leadership
- To deputise in some tasks in the absence of the Senior Specialist Nurse if required.
Communication
- To work in a client centred manner with mutually agreed goals, appointments and rehabilitation programmes.
- To communicate effectively with clients, carers and family members and to develop effective working relationships with the multidisciplinary team and external agencies.
Education, Training & Mentorship
- To induct, supervise, appraise and teach students on placements within the team.
Audit, Benchmarking & Research
Personal & Professional Development
- To use evidence based practice to develop and maintain a high quality clinically effective and cost-effective service.
- To identify and be responsible for own training needs as well as identifying team training needs and supporting development of others.
Person Specification
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential
- Demonstrate highly developed verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills in English
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills, including observation, listening and empathy skills;
- Ability to use an evidence based approach including clinical outcome measures to evaluate outcomes;
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and to make sound clinical judgments and decisions regarding patient care.
- Ability to work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety
- Ability to manage a complex and constantly changing workload of clinical and non-clinical duties;
- Ability to plan and organize the provision of care to teams caseload of patients;
- Ability to adopt innovative and flexible working practices and lead and implement successful change management
- Ability to devise, deliver and evaluate training both within the service and to other agencies;
- To be responsible and accountable for decisions made
Desirable
- Demonstrate effective research and IT skills
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with professional from other disciplines
- Experience of working with adults and older people with chronic conditions and complex co-morbidities
- Experience of teaching and assessing students and rehab support workers
- Experience of undertaking initial assessment.
- Able to understand and contribute to a rehabilative approach with clients.
Desirable
- Experience of supervising other members of staff.
- Experience of working in a rehabilitation or Urgent response settings.
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognized Nursing degree qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- Member of relevant Clinical Interest Group.
- Recognised post-graduate qualification in specialist clinical area
Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential
- Nursing and Midwifery Council State registration
Person Specification
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential
- Demonstrate highly developed verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills in English
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills, including observation, listening and empathy skills;
- Ability to use an evidence based approach including clinical outcome measures to evaluate outcomes;
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and to make sound clinical judgments and decisions regarding patient care.
- Ability to work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety
- Ability to manage a complex and constantly changing workload of clinical and non-clinical duties;
- Ability to plan and organize the provision of care to teams caseload of patients;
- Ability to adopt innovative and flexible working practices and lead and implement successful change management
- Ability to devise, deliver and evaluate training both within the service and to other agencies;
- To be responsible and accountable for decisions made
Desirable
- Demonstrate effective research and IT skills
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with professional from other disciplines
- Experience of working with adults and older people with chronic conditions and complex co-morbidities
- Experience of teaching and assessing students and rehab support workers
- Experience of undertaking initial assessment.
- Able to understand and contribute to a rehabilative approach with clients.
Desirable
- Experience of supervising other members of staff.
- Experience of working in a rehabilitation or Urgent response settings.
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognized Nursing degree qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- Member of relevant Clinical Interest Group.
- Recognised post-graduate qualification in specialist clinical area
Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential
- Nursing and Midwifery Council State registration
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
