Job summarySupporting community nursing practitioners across Bedfordshire to enhance their clinical performance and confidence.
Work clinically with community nursing teams/clinicians to ensure service competencies are completed.
Act as a positive role model - maintaining clinical competence and credibility to enable provision of both professional and clinical supervision, skill development and support.
To take the lead on the development of clinical practice supporting the operational manager and Team Leaders
Drive the quality agenda and ensure that the Quality strategy underpins all operational services
To support the community nursing and wider community teams participating in out of hours on call rota where appropriate.
Main duties of the jobTo support staff to identify learning needs and work in partnership with Team leaders to ensure all essential training required to perform the post is undertaken
To support senior managers and the Team Leaders to ensure locality services meet CQC requirements with particular regard to records management, ensuring the team maintain a high standard of both manual and computerised documentation.
Support the management of risks within the locality, taking appropriate mitigating action and ensuring the reporting of incidents in accordance with the policy.
To contribute to the peer review and assurance process across the localities in partnership with Team Leaders
To support staff to identify learning needs and work in partnership with Team leaders to ensure all essential training required to perform the post is undertaken
Support the management of risks within the locality, taking appropriate mitigating action and ensuring the reporting of incidents in accordance with the policy.
To provide professional support and leadership to the teams in the absence of the Team Leader
- To deliver training sessions and support the skills and Drills induction programme
About usOur mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job responsibilities- To contribute to the peer review and assurance process across the localities in partnership with Team Leaders
- To provide targeted interventions in localities where risk and/or issues are identified
- To provide professional support and leadership to the teams in the absence of the Team Leader
- To deliver training sessions and support the skills and Drills induction programme
Person SpecificationEducationEssential- Registered General Nurse
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent
- Post-registration qualification in District Nursing
- Demonstrable evidence of significant post-registration nursing experience, including in a community setting
DesirableExperienceEssential- Demonstrate evidence-based practice and up-to-date clinical skills
- Experience of clinical leadership
- Extensive experience of complex assessment of health and social needs
- Ability to oversee multiple caseloads and monitor quality
Desirable- Relevant teaching/mentoring qualification and evidence of teaching skills
KnowledgeDesirable- Evidence of and commitment to multi-professional working
- Demonstrate working within a multi-agency environment.
- Have a comprehensive understanding of partnership working.
- Demonstrate application of clinical governance
- Excellent understanding of community health and social care principles and practice
- Understanding of National and Local issues that impact on the population of Bedfordshire.
OtherEssential- Willing to work to meet the needs of the service (to include evenings, weekends and bank holidays).
- Ability to travel throughout Bedfordshire and access to a car for work purposes
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.Applicants must have current UK professional registration. 
