North Uttlesford Icct Team Lead

Essex Partnership University Nhs Foundation Trust; New Alresford; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car for business use

UK driving license

Job summary

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced District Nurse team leader to oversee the Uttlesford North Integrated Neighbourhood Team, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care for patients and families in the community.

You will provide clinical supervision and line management while collaborating with the South Uttlesford team for cohesive leadership across the North & South regions.

Qualifications

• Nurse registered with current UK professional registration.
• Leadership experience in community nursing settings.
• Ability to supervise and develop nursing staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical oversight of the Community Nursing team and integrated neighbourhood service.
• Manage day-to-day operations of the integrated service, including supervision of staff.
• Coordinate care with social services and other statutory/non-statutory services to meet local needs.
• Support end-of-life and palliative care planning in collaboration with teams.

Skills

Team leadership

Senior level experience

Clinical supervision

Communication skills

Education

District Nurse (Certificate, Diploma/Degree)

Nurse Prescriber V100/V300

Job description

Job summary

The post holder will be responsible for leading the Uttlesford North Integrated team, who through partnership with members of the Community Nursing team, will ensure high quality evidence based care to patients, their families and carers in the Community. The post holder will also be responsible for providing leadership, line management and clinical supervision along with the day to day management of the integrated service team as well as having a clinical oversight of the Saffron Walden outpatient department. They will work collaboratively with the South Uttlesford Team lead, ensuring cohesive leadership across both North & South, whilst remaining aligned to their own Integrated Neighbourhood Teams.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work aligned within the North Uttlesford Integrated Neighbourhood Team and will be an integral part of the West Essex Care Closer to Home model, working in partnership with Social Services and other statutory and non-statutory services to meet the needs of the local population using public health information/population management to support service development. In addition they will work closely with the Virtual Hospital and Care Co-ordination Centre (CCC) to prevent hospital admission, facilitate hospital discharges and ensure care is delivered in the right place at the right time.

About us

Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

Benefits

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Work bank: You can use the opportunity to supplement your income and develop your skills by working bank shifts.
• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

Job responsibilities

To work within a Caseload Management Framework and ensure coordination of care for patients identified through collaborative working with the wider Primary Health Care team and through clinical judgement.

• To have clinical oversight of the Outpatients Department in Saffron Walden Community Hospital
• To identify and plan preventative measures and anticipatory care needs.
• To maintain accurate contemporaneous and up-to-date patient records and inform other appropriate professionals about changes in conditions
• To proactively monitor patients and review care plans
• To make referrals to other services or professions, request diagnostic tests and instigate treatments and interventions as required
• To assess patients with complex clinical need using clinical examination skills, history taking and evaluation skills.
• To manage End of Life Care and work in partnership with health, social and voluntary agencies to ensure patients are treated with dignity and respect and to support their families and carers.
• To prepare the patient and their family/carer for changes in the patients condition and support choice for end of life care.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications / management

Essential

• District Nurse (Certificate, Diploma/Degree) or equivalent level of advanced practitioner education
• Nurse Prescriber V100/V300 or willingness to undertake within first 12months of appointment

Desirable

• Understanding of the Challenges within Community Nursing
• Evidence of advanced clinical knowledge/skills of specific areas of nursing.

Managerial

Essential

• Experience in Leading a Team
• Experience in working at senior levels

Corporate

Essential

• Car to be used for business purposes
• Driving License valid in the UK

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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