District Nurse

Central London Community Health Trust

Job summary

Are you looking for opportunities to develop your community nursing skills in your career and to be part of a unique and dynamic integrated care team?

Do you want to be part of developing and shaping a new integrated care service in Harrow?

An exciting new opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join our newly restructured Harrow Integrated Care District Nursing Service.

Harrow Integrated Care service provided District Nursing services to Harrow CCG and is split into three locality teams. This post will be located in one of the Harrow localities. The post holder will work closely with the team leads, clinicians to develop the service and maintain close working relationships with both acute and community services.

We require an organised registered nurse who can demonstrate community nursing clinical to work at band 5 level.

The ability to work alone in a community multidisciplinary team and support junior staff is essential to this role.

Main duties of the job

To provide skilled nursing care working under the supervision of the Community Nurse Team Lead and Deputy Team Lead to patients in a variety of community settings.

The post holder will undertake community nursing duties involving delivery of nursing services and holistic assessments of patients health needs using a person centred approach. This includes providing quality and seamless nursing care to housebound patients and being proactive in co-ordinating their care needs as appropriate, avoiding unnecessary admission to hospital or long term care institutions. In addition, the post holder will be involved in facilitating self- care for patients with long term conditions, health promotion and innovative activities and projects that enhance patient service delivery.

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full-time

Salary

£32,720 to £39,769 a year PA inc HCAS

Closing date

30/11/2023