Senior Clinical Community Nurse/Charge Nurse - Winchester, United Kingdom - Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

**This role would previously been called Community Sister/Charge Nurse**

A great opportunity has become available in our friendly and supportive team, Winchester Rural South for a Senior Clinical Community Nurse. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to fill our Band 6 role, to work in our mixed professional team in both patient homes and clinic settings.

Service aims include providing a local point of access, proactive case management and adoption of a co-produced approach with patients and service users.

The successful post holder will be required to provide expert clinical management for patients with complex care needs, management, support and leadership for the community nursing team supported by the Community Team Matron.

You will also be responsible for the recruitment, induction, clinical supervision and day to day/operational management of the Community Nursing Team and ensuring an effective contribution to the implementation of SHFT clinical, governance and other strategies.

The Winchester Rural South team provides cover to a large rural community within the Winchester district between Twyford and Wickham between the hours of 0800 am and days a week.

Main duties of the job

The primary role of the Community Team Lead is to provide strong holistic leadership to the team and support the Community Team Matron (Band 7). To include day to day leadership responsibilities, development and creative leadership, responsive leadership, enabling the team to achieve a 'well led' culture.

The Community Team Lead in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues and specifically, GP's, Practice Nurses and Social Care professionals, will lead and facilitate a patient or client focused, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital.

The Community Team Lead will participate in and influence efforts across health and social services to shape multi-disciplinary pathways designed to support patient choice, improve quality of life, promote self-management and assure early intervention through the proactive provision of care in or as close to the patient's own home as possible.

The Community Team Lead will work across the caseload and the single point of access or (equivalent), using their clinical skills to identify the needs of patients and the correct services to liaise with.

The Community Team Lead will provide an expertise in their own discipline to the wider team.

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to integrate all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services. Our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust, is set to launch in July 2024.

The transformation will happen in staggered stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning in early May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent Trusts is anticipated to occur in July 2024, when the new organisation will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Happy to talk flexible working- all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Qualifications

Essential