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1. To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken. To work within the standards and guidelines of the team, the Trust, and The NMC/HCPC Code.

2. To deliver nursing care to patients within their home, that is technically excellent, expressly personal and ensures patients and carers dignity and privacy are enhanced.

3. To undertake highly skilled and complex nursing activities directly related to the assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care.

4. Management of complex patient care ensuring that risks are adequately assessed, minimised, translated into appropriate care plans and reported across the organisation as appropriate.

5. To make skilled clinical decisions and communicate the rationale clearly.

6. Management of complex patient care ensuring that risks are adequately assessed, minimised, translated into appropriate care plans and reported across the organisation as appropriate.

7. Manage the effective coordination and continuity of patient care working closely with external agencies and community colleagues.

8.To ensure that clinical practice is contemporary to meeting the needs of patients and families.

9. To ensure that each patient has a comprehensive assessment of need, including risk assessment and that their care is culturally sensitive and addresses issues of diversity.

10. To work closely with the acute trust, GP, nursing and therapy colleagues to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other IC S's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an IC S infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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The Overnight Teams primary aim is hospital admission avoidance and keeping patient sefley in community. The team reviews patients with worsening medical and functional conditions within their own home and liaise with the wider community teams to prevent clinical deterioration and admission to acute hospital.

Please see attached Job description and Person Specification

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Physical Assessment skills
• Advanced physical Assessment qualification or willingness to work towards
• Independent Non-Medical Prescriber or willingness to work towards

• Experience of working within the Community Nursing
• Extensive post registration experience in Acute care
• Experience in ITU, A&E, Acute assessment units would be advantageous
• Ability to prioritize work/response/triage referrals and messages effectively
• Sound clinical judgement and decision making regarding acutely unwell patients

• Ability to assess and implement appropriate care plan and adapt plan depending on patient's response to treatment.
• Ability to assess and identify the deteriorating patient
• Able to work confidently in an independent and autonomous role whilst being aware of own limitations

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.

Associate Director of Nursing Community Division

£44,485 to £52,521 a yearPer annum Inclusive of HCAS