Job summary
We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our Locality Nursing Team on the Isle of Wight.
Locality nursing is a community service which aims to provide planned and unplanned care for patients in need. We are looking for someone who can independently perform advanced assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological needs. This supports diagnosis to enable development and delivery of an individualised treatment programme.
The purpose of the role is to plan and manage complete episodes of care; undertake independent comprehensive assessment and management of service users to incorporate pharmacological considerations; making complex clinical decisions regarding service user management and clinical outcomes.
Main duties of the job
*To provide highly specialist person centred care which always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity using clinical knowledge that is evidence based.
*To promote community care delivered at home, thus preventing unnecessary admissions to hospital and reduction in length of hospital inpatient stays.
*Monitor indicators of long-term conditions, anticipating possible decline and proactively managing this to enhance well-being and maintain independence.
*To actively support the use of Telehealth in order to promote self-management.
*Plan interventions on a basis of needs, preference, choices and expressed wishes, facilitating discussion with the family and significant others.
*To work as part of the In-Reach Service, developing good communication with the Acute sector to support early discharge and patient flow.
*Promote a positive image of community nursing
*Provide an educational role to staff and patients
*Take responsibility for holistic assessment of the needs of the patients in their care
*Liaise with General Practitioners and other members of the primary health care team and other health, social and voluntary agencies
*Provide information, support and advice to patients, families, carers and health care professionals about aspects of care
*Implement policies and protocols relevant to the service
*Provide leadership, when appropriate, to the multi-disciplinary team in caring for patients
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Demonstrate a commitment to further education at levels 3 and Masters
- *Registered with current NMC Registration
- *Nurse Prescriber qualification or willingness to undertake.
- *Physical Assessment/History Taking qualification -- or willingness to work towards as priority
- *Car driver with clean licence
Experience
Essential
- *Demonstrate experience at leading and managing people across disciplines and teams as a Senior Nurse
- *Clinically up to date understanding of the political factors influencing the delivery of community nursing services.
- *Understanding of the management of long- term conditions
- *Knowledge of the principles of manual handling, blood borne diseases.
- *Computer literacy in Word/Excel
- *Demonstrate knowledge of local health and social care systems
- *Facilitating networks of practitioners to learn from each other
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Physical Skills
- *Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder, e.g. car driver, lone working
- *Car driver with clean licence
- *Awareness of personal safety
- Aptitudes
- Have the ability to:
- *Understand professional and personal accountability in line with standards laid out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- *Demonstrate ability to prioritise and organise own workload
- *Work as a member of a multi-professional team
- *Self motivated, able to work independently and able to demonstrate ability to make decisions
- *Support and challenge traditional views/work practices in a credible and non-threatening way
- *Flexible approach
- *Use initiative and be able to manage difficult situations
- *Have an analytic and problem solving approach
- *Have excellent time management skills
- *Adapt to change within working situation
- *Maintain effectiveness under pressure
- *Act personally in a way that supports equality, fairness and values diversity.
- *Prioritise own work and others
- *Work under pressure
- *Demonstrate effective and efficient use of resources
- *Be self motivated
- *Audit and evaluate
- Abilities
- *Evidence of commitment to personal development and training.
- *Long term (chronic) disease management experience
- *Experience of implementing evidence based practice
- *Team leadership abilities and experience
- *Experience in caseload management
- *Health promotion experience
- *Proven ability to work effectively without close supervision
- *Ability to develop and maintain therapeutic professional relationship with individuals and carers
- *Demonstrates knowledge of current issues in health and social care in relation to long term disease management
- *Be able to offer innovative ideas to improve patient care/working practices
- *Ability to demonstrate effective and dynamic leadership skills by gaining the commitment of health care professionals and empowering them to effect change
- Communication Skills
- *Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to relate positively with a wide range of professional and non-professional staff and to manage conflict and difficult situations positively
- *Ability to empathise
- *Experience of inter-agency working
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Demonstrate a commitment to further education at levels 3 and Masters
- *Registered with current NMC Registration
- *Nurse Prescriber qualification or willingness to undertake.
- *Physical Assessment/History Taking qualification -- or willingness to work towards as priority
- *Car driver with clean licence
Experience
Essential
- *Demonstrate experience at leading and managing people across disciplines and teams as a Senior Nurse
- *Clinically up to date understanding of the political factors influencing the delivery of community nursing services.
- *Understanding of the management of long- term conditions
- *Knowledge of the principles of manual handling, blood borne diseases.
- *Computer literacy in Word/Excel
- *Demonstrate knowledge of local health and social care systems
- *Facilitating networks of practitioners to learn from each other
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Physical Skills
- *Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder, e.g. car driver, lone working
- *Car driver with clean licence
- *Awareness of personal safety
- Aptitudes
- Have the ability to:
- *Understand professional and personal accountability in line with standards laid out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- *Demonstrate ability to prioritise and organise own workload
- *Work as a member of a multi-professional team
- *Self motivated, able to work independently and able to demonstrate ability to make decisions
- *Support and challenge traditional views/work practices in a credible and non-threatening way
- *Flexible approach
- *Use initiative and be able to manage difficult situations
- *Have an analytic and problem solving approach
- *Have excellent time management skills
- *Adapt to change within working situation
- *Maintain effectiveness under pressure
- *Act personally in a way that supports equality, fairness and values diversity.
- *Prioritise own work and others
- *Work under pressure
- *Demonstrate effective and efficient use of resources
- *Be self motivated
- *Audit and evaluate
- Abilities
- *Evidence of commitment to personal development and training.
- *Long term (chronic) disease management experience
- *Experience of implementing evidence based practice
- *Team leadership abilities and experience
- *Experience in caseload management
- *Health promotion experience
- *Proven ability to work effectively without close supervision
- *Ability to develop and maintain therapeutic professional relationship with individuals and carers
- *Demonstrates knowledge of current issues in health and social care in relation to long term disease management
- *Be able to offer innovative ideas to improve patient care/working practices
- *Ability to demonstrate effective and dynamic leadership skills by gaining the commitment of health care professionals and empowering them to effect change
- Communication Skills
- *Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to relate positively with a wide range of professional and non-professional staff and to manage conflict and difficult situations positively
- *Ability to empathise
- *Experience of inter-agency working
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
