Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Twilight Staff Nurse (Evening)
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Job Overview
Band 5 nurses work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends, and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.
Band 5 nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
- Keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
- Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures
- Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering, and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process.
Please note: This post is based in the borough of Hillingdon region.
Main Duties of the Job
An opportunity for a Staff Nurse wishing to work part-time hours to join our friendly Twilight Team.
Our aim is to be the best we can, offering excellent person-centred, safe, and evidence-based care to those who access our services. Our Twilight District Nursing Team deliver “out of hours care” to people in their own homes and/or designated buildings. The team is made up of both staff nurses and healthcare support workers, who provide out-of-hours district nursing service.
You must hold a relevant Nursing Qualification with significant experience as a staff nurse. You must be a car driver and have access to a car for use at work with business insurance.
You will:
- Perform joint visits to provide nursing care to patients allocated by a senior staff member
- Take responsibility for the assessment, management, and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings and promote effective teamwork within the wider Healthcare Team.
Part Time 4.5 hour shifts each. Total available hours 31.5hrs/week (7 x 4.5hrs shifts/week, hours will be divided depending on the number of successful candidates)
The service operates seven days a week between the hours of 16:30 - 00:30.
The post consists of 4.5hr shifts each. The shift starts at either 18:00 until 22:30hrs or 19:30 until 00:00hrs depending on the service needs. Successful candidates are expected to be flexible and to be able to work both the 18:00hrs or 19:30 hours start shifts as per service demands.
Working for Our Organisation
Values
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family, and carers, and also other staff members. As a Band 5 nurse, we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment, and recognize that what you do and say can make the lives of others better. We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic. We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources, and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognize that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
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Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience.
For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.
Job Responsibilities:
- Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
- Safeguarding people by recognizing and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognizing their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary
- Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
- Being open and transparent about their own practice
- Supervising the work of others
- Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
- Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
- Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records
- Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements
- Competent and confident in all relevant clinical skills and willing to undertake such skills to meet service needs
Candidates are expected to have the appropriate clinical skills required for the job and be able to provide any required evidence of their clinical competence if requested.
Due to the nature of the Twilight service, applicants must already be confident and competent in community-based clinical decision-making and managing out-of-hours settings.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate substantial experience working autonomously, including managing complex cases, lone working, and making independent decisions in unscheduled unplanned care situations.
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Person Specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post-graduate experience in a relevant area working with people with long-term conditions
- Extensive post-graduate experience in a role undertaking assessments of complex needs
- Experience of case management and care coordination
- Demonstrable experience of clinical leadership
- Clinical experience of caring for people with cognitive impairment
- Experience of mentoring students
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit evaluation to improve healthcare
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Level 1 with current registration with the NMC
- Evidence of working within multidisciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
- An understanding of current health service issues
- Understanding of Primary Care
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of case management, case finding systems, and care coordination
- An understanding of the wider NHS and social care contexts
- Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and DOLS
- Demonstrate an understanding of clinical governance
- Extended and advanced clinical knowledge base
- Understanding of Safeguarding Adults & Children
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care
- Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach, and mentor, seeking to instill and develop the confidence of others
- Ability to appraise complex situations and facts and take appropriate action
- Evidence of ability to direct and coordinate programs of care working autonomously and collaboratively
- Ability to effectively delegate activities to appropriate staff
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to effectively negotiate on patient management and promote self-care and across boundaries
- Evidence of ability to communicate both verbally and in writing at all levels in a multidisciplinary forum and with patients and carers
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- IT literate with ability to use technology and other digital solutions with patients and in the operation of the service
- Able to produce well-written and timely clinical records and service reports
- Ability to travel to multiple sites; car driver or competent cyclist
Desirable criteria
- Motivational Interviewing skills
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