Senior Community Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available in our friendly and supportive team, Winchester City Community Team as a Community Charge Nurse. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to fill our Band 6 role, to work in our mixed professional team in both patient homes and clinic settings.

Service aims include providing a local point of access, proactive case management and adoption of a co-produced approach with patients and service users.

The successful post holder will be required to provide expert clinical management for patients with complex care needs, management, support and leadership for the community nursing team supported by the Community Team Matron.

You will also be responsible for the recruitment, induction, clinical supervision and day to day/operational management of the Community Nursing Team and ensuring an effective contribution to the implementation of SHFT clinical, governance and other strategies.

The Winchester City team provides cover to a Winchester City and surrounding villages between the hours of 0800 am and 2000 7 days a week.

Main duties of the job

Monitor the quality-of-care planning, implementation and evaluation to ensure optimum quality is maintained.

Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice, which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained.

Ensure that discharge and transfer planning for patients is done in a proactive and interdisciplinary manner.

Practice, role model and promote safe and effective skills in all aspects of clinical practice.

Recognises own limitations in the provision of clinical care and urgency of patient's needs, referring to other healthcare professionals accordingly and is accountable for his/her own action.

Lead the training, support and supervision of the integrated service team, ensuring team training needs are met.

Support students in their learning and development.

Develop own professional skills and ensure these are shared with the team and wider division. Acting as a specialist resource.

Provide management responsibility for the team in partnership with the Community Team Matron (Band 7). This may include annual leave management; sickness' / absence management; performance management, training and development, appraisals, incident and complaints management.

Deputise for the Integrated Community Team Matron (Band 7) as required.

Ensure that all members of team receive yearly appraisal and development plans in partnership with the integrated senior clinical team lead.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avalon House

Chesil Street

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 0HU

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avalon House

Chesil Street

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 0HU

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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