North Mid is thrilled to announce the launch of an innovative new service--a dynamic expanded overnight community nursing team designed to keep patients out of Accident & Emergency by providing essential overnight care right in their own homes.
We are looking for passionate individuals with a flair for both service development and project management to join this exciting initiative. If you have a positive, can‑do attitude and a desire to make a real impact, this role is for you!
As a key player in the growth of this service, you will be a clinical leader and role model, guiding your team while collaborating with internal and external partners to shape and develop the service. You'll work closely with stakeholders across the system, including the acute hospital ERRAS and District Nursing teams, as well as with external partners like the London Ambulance Service and GPs.
We need an NMC registered band 7 with experience in Community Nursing.
You’ll receive comprehensive induction and training to ensure you have all the support needed to succeed and settle into your new role. Be part of something exciting—transform healthcare in your community and make a lasting difference!
Main duties of the job
* Effective communication with Primary Care (GPs, Practice Nurses), Social services, acute (Community hospital staff, borough council and local voluntary sector).
* Actively participates in relevant professional and organisational networks and contributes to meetings and working groups.
* Chairs and facilitates team meetings to ensure effective cascade of information.
* Ensures contemporary and accurate record keeping within the locality whilst adhering to confidentiality and information governance.
* Utilises technology to support communication channels whilst adhering to confidentiality and information governance.
* Acts as a patient advocate and works to always achieve the best outcomes for patients.
* Undertakes and documents holistic nursing assessments of patients, including those with multiple pathology and complex health and social needs, with a plan of care agreed with the patient.
About us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other IC&S, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone statutory bodies we have an IC&S infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Job responsibilities
* Oversees induction programmes and orientation for new staff.
* Maintains an overall view of competencies for nursing staff, observing and signing off competencies for nurses.
* Responsible for ensuring clinical supervision, peer reviews and appraisals have been accessed across a defined locality.
* Provides clinical training and education and participates in the development of work‑based learning across the service.
* Maintains effective learning environment in line with guidelines and NMC requirements.
* Acts as a role model demonstrating a level of knowledge, competence and the highest professional and personal standard in which the nurse is required to emulate.
Person Specification
Experience
* Broad range of clinical skills relevant to District Nursing.
* Ability to undertake full assessments of patients, including those with multiple pathology and complex health and social needs.
* Experience of staff management and appraisal.
Skills and Aptitudes
* Ability to work across a seven‑day week.
* Ability to delegate nursing care and to prioritise visits in accordance with patient need.
* Dexterity to enable clinical skills to be performed, e.g., removal of sutures.
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.
Associate Director of Nursing – Community Division
£55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum including HCAS.
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