Job summary
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse looking for an opportunity to develop your leadership experience in community nursing?

CLCH NHS Trust's North Central Division is recruiting a Band 6 Registered Nurse to join our Southeast Integrated Neighbourhood Community Nursing Team as a Deputy Team Lead. You will help co-lead a neighbourhood team, working alongside and with the support of experienced Team Leaders. You will also manage your own patient caseload, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based care in patients' homes to support their independence and improve outcomes. We are particularly interested in candidates with previous community nursing experience. You will be an approachable and effective communicator who enjoys collaborative working, while also being confident working independently. We welcome someone who is open to new ideas and different ways of working. The role involves travelling between patients' homes. You will therefore need a full, valid UK driving licence and access to a car for business purposes, unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010.

Main duties of the job
This is an exciting time to join the Community Nursing service. We are developing new community pathways which will support the delivery of more care in people's homes, and to enable us to do this we have a range of new learning and development opportunities available through the CLCH Academy.

Key duties within the role include:

• To set and maintain standards of care and deploy, co-ordinate and supervise the nursing team and learners as required.
• To provide leadership and management to a team of community nurses.
• To be responsible for the team's assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised nursing care to patients living in the community. The service is provided seven days per week 8am-8pm.
• To be responsible for the team's maintenance of patient and other records.
• To participate in the long-term management of patients within the locality.
• To have continued responsibility for a defined caseload.
• To be responsible for the development and maintenance of competencies within the team.

About us
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.

We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.

Salary £45,953 to £54,254 a year per annum, inclusive of HCAS
Band Band 6
Pay scheme Agenda for change
Contract Permanent
Working pattern Full-time
Reference number 824-NORTH-8350654

Essential Person Specification
Education/Qualification

• RGN / RN with current registration
• Evidence of recent and continuing post-registration professional education and training equivalent to post-graduate diploma level

Experience

• Evidence of recent post-registration nursing experience
• Experience of negotiating and liaising within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working with people with complex health needs
• Experience of supervising junior staff and co-ordinating a team on a day to day, regular basis
• Experience of teaching and mentoring others including students
• Experience of implementing evidence-based care in practice
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive health needs assessment and writing care plans

Skills and Knowledge

• Principles of care for patients with long term conditions, relevant NSFs and other national standards
• NMC Code of Professional Conduct and application to practice
• Personal Development Planning
• Primary Health Care - structures and roles (overview)
• Applying evidence based care into practice
• The principles of clinical governance and application to practice 3.8 Clinical supervision - purpose and application
• Managing difficult situations and conflict resolution
• How equal opportunities can be implemented in practice
• High level of competence in a range of clinical skills
• Basic computer skills

Desirable Person Specification

• Mentor training
• Has undertaken formal training in staff and team management
• Nurse prescribing qualification
• Community nursing and/or primary care post-registration nursing experience
• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

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.

Employer details
Central London Community Health Trust, Childshill Clinic, Garth Road, Barnet, NW2 2NJ, United Kingdom. Website: https://clch.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact: Penual Arza, INT Lead, penual.arza@nhs.net, 07551178103

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