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Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

About

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

CLCH is both the largest community healthcare organisation in London and the first in the capital to be awarded NHS Trust status. As such, CLCH is at the forefront of changing the way healthcare services are provided to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients. Over 3,000 community health professionals and staff provide community and in-patient services to over 900,000 local people.

Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Key details

Location
Site: Building 16, Building Research establishment
Address: Bucknalls Lane
Town: Watford
Postcode: WD25 9XX
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (secondment will be considered, Mat Leave cover)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (This will be over 12 hour shifts - totalling 13 shifts in a 4 week period, including weekends)

Salary
Salary: £48,270 - £54,931 Per Annum, inclusive of HCASS
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 7)

Specialty
Main area: Frailty Hospital at Home

Job Overview

Due to maternity leave, we have an opportunity for a Senior Nurse or Paramedic to join the team on a fixed term basis. We are looking for forward thinking, passionate staff who can take a positive risk management approach to support the frail population to remain at home when acutely unwell.

The Hospital at Home model has been developed with our system partners WHTH and provides face to face care to facilitate acutely unwell patients out of hospital to home quicker or by preventing hospital admissions.

This service expands upon our existing VH models within the system and has been implemented in line with National Guidance. The team is clinically led by a Frailty Nurse Consultant and the service delivered by ACPs, ECPs, senior nurses and therapists and support workers. The Hospital at Home service sits within the Unplanned Care Business Unit and will align with CLCH's Urgent Community Response service and cover the four localities in West Hertfordshire.

We Can Offer You

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&Cs apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration or Registered Paramedic with HCPC.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Independent Prescriber with an up to date relevant scope of practice.

• Qualification in Top to Toe assessment
• Qualification in teaching or practice-based learning.
• University accredited Minor illness Module
• Qualification in prehospital care or community care

• Proven experience of utilising expert diagnostic and clinical skills to provide autonomous, unscheduled medical care and management of patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions.
• Experience of effectively working in collaboration, negotiating and liaising across organisational boundaries.
• Experience in monitoring clinical standards.
• Proven ability to prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision.
• Experience caring for frail patients

• Experience of team/service/staff management.
• Experience of implementing evidence-based care and developing others to do so.
• Experience of conducting research projects and audit.
• Experience of change management and implementing change in practice.
• Evidence of innovation in practice.

• Evidence of comprehensive range of clinical skills and expertise relevant to the role
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Basic IT skills including use of Microsoft Office package and email
• Specialist knowledge in clinical reasoning, history taking, physical examination, diagnostic skills and prescribing/treatment.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of anatomy and physiology of body systems.
• Clinical knowledge across a range of long-term conditions.
• Knowledge of NMC/HCPC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Knowledge of current health care policy and legislation and relevance to the delivery of healthcare services
• Detailed knowledge of Primary Health Care and collaborative working with other care providers, e.g. social care and voluntary services

• 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)

Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Francesca Pepper
Job title: Head of Clinical Services
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07584 531 313

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Temporary

Job function: Health Care Provider

Industries: Hospitals