Neighbourhood Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospital in London is seeking a motivated Neighbourhood Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse to join their community services team. The role offers a unique nurse-led approach to patient care, focusing on holistic assessments and long-term condition management. Candidates will have opportunities for training and development while working in a supportive environment. This full-time position requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work autonomously, with a commitment to delivering high-quality care.

Benefits

Mobile devices for personal protection

Opportunity for training and mentorship programs

Access to education opportunities with Kings College London

Financial, health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience of leading and managing a nursing team.
• Experience of working in primary care/community nursing services.

Responsibilities

• Participates in clinical case management of complex patients.
• Ensures high standard of nursing care and health promotion.
• Holistic assessment and evaluation of care.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Clinical Skills

Education

First degree level

Registered General Nurse Adult

Job description

Neighbourhood Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse

Band 6

Main area Community Services Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: 8 Month Secondment opportunity also available Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 196-NM12880

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Community Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 p.a inc HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 01/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 13/06/2025

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

We are looking for a forward-thinking and motivated nurse to join the Neighbourhood Nursing teams across Lambeth and Southwark areas.

We are the first Trust in the UK to trial the Buurtzorg District Nursing Model: an entirely Nurse-led approach to patient care in the community with self-managed nursing teams. You will find yourself working in a completely different way.

You must demonstrate excellent communication and team working skills. Through clinical case management you will care for patients with long-term conditions, those at risk, end of life care needs, and those with supported self-care programmes.

There will be training and opportunities in addition to clinical supervisions and appraisals. The post holder must be able to undertake a prescribing course and advanced assessment courses once in post.

Working on a 7-day shift service (hours between 8.00 – 20.00), this post also includes rotational weekend work (maximum two per month).

We are currently trialling a new way on interviewing called transparent interviews, whereby we will provide the 60% of the non-clinical questions to the candidates 24 hours in advance – for further details on this please contact [e-mail] – Matron for Recruitment & Retention.

Closing Date: 1st June 2025 at Midnight

Proposed Interview Date: week starting 9th June 2025

Main duties of the job

The Neighbourhood Nurse participates in the clinical case management of patients who have a wide variety of complex, high-risk and supported/self-care conditions.

As a team leader, you will ensure the provision of a high standard of nursing care and health promotion.

Duties include:

• Holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care. For example, Chronic Disease Management, Tissue viability, Palliative Care, Nurse Prescribing, Extended and Supplementary Prescribing.
• First contact assessment, care and referral.
• Continuing care, rehabilitation and delivering the National Service Frameworks.
• Providing public health, health promotional programmes to improve health and reduce inequalities.
• Maintaining contemporaneous written and computerised records.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

You will have the opportunity to further develop and enhance your skills with the support and training available by working alongside experienced nurses and specialists. We have a supportive culture to encourage each other to strive to be the best within our daily practice. Our feedback as a team reflects this.

Working with us you will have access to numerous benefits:

• Mobile devices for personal protection whilst in practice, allowing you to work more flexibly.
• Opportunity to apply for training and mentorship programs on all grades of nursing staff.
• Access to our partners e.g. Kings College London for Masters level education opportunities.
• Financial, health and wellbeing support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for complete details and key responsibilities for this role.

Person specification

Skills

• Extensive repertoire of clinical skills
• Ability to analyse and critique assessment and other information and make sound clinical decisions.
• Ability to work autonomously and be responsible and accountable for own decisions.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to use network, email and use Word and simple spreadsheets and databases.
• Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Effective role model of high standards
• Car driver with full UK licence

Experience

• Experience of leading and managing a nursing team.
• Experience of working as a member of a team but also able to work autonomously.
• Experience of teaching and assessing students and other staff members.
• Experience of working in primary care / community nursing services.
• Experience as a clinical supervisor.

Knowledge

• Education to first degree level
• Registered General Nurse Adult
• Evidence of post-registration education and training in care of older people, long term conditions, palliative and end of life care.
• Practice assessor/supervisor or old mentorship qualification or SSSAP.
• Nurse prescriber or willingness to undertake.
• Clinical specific post registration course e.g. wound management, diabetes, leg ulcer care, continence care and assessment

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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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.

Name Janevive Ekejiuba-Uwah Job title Locality Nurse Manager - Neighbourhood Nursing Email address [e-mail] Additional information

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