Senior Community Nurse Basingstoke

Job summary

The Senior Community Nurse will play a key leadership role in managing a team of community nurses to deliver high quality, compassionate care to patients in their own homes. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated clinician who wants to contribute to safe, person-centred care within a strong MDT framework. We pride ourselves on being caring, competent and compassionate, placing patient and service users at the heart of everything we go. working with us means joining a service where your ideas are valued, leadership pathways, and opportunities for ongoing professional growth to help you perform at your best.

Please note this is a physical health role and not mental health.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work autonomously within their professional scope, taking responsibility for all aspect of community health care delivery and the safe day to day running of the service. They will line manage a team of staff, support the management of an active caseload, and oversee staff rostering. They will also participate in the triage rota, carrying delegated authority to admit, refer and discharge patients. The Community Charge Nurse will be responsible for incident management, including reviewing incident forms and ensuring appropriate follow up and learningThey will actively contribute to the Primary Care Network (PCN), involve the wider MDT where appropriate, and delegate tasks to ensure safe and effective care. Th role includes providing clinical supervision to new and existing staff, working within legal and ethical frameworks, and adhering to organisational policies. The post holder will also support quality improvement by identifying opportunities for service development within safe and appropriate boundaries.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Post registration qualification or university degree

Desirable

• Management/ leadership qualifications/ development programme
• Teaching and assessing qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with long term conditions and frailty
• Evidence of innovative practice
• experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care/community setting
• experience of caseload management including responsibility for complex care packages for vulnerable people

Desirable

• Experience of initiating or participating in clinical audit/research relating to clinical practice

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Broad range of enhanced clinical skills
• Ability to demonstrate leadership skills
• Demonstrate organisational skills including the ability to make decisions and to priorities work

Desirable

• Clear understanding of community health services

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).