Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 395-HV619-24
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Romford Clinic
- Town
- Romford
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lower Limb Coordinator
NHS AfC: Band 6
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
The Lower Limb Service Nurse Co-ordinator is an exciting role for a Registered Nurse (RN12-NMC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
The post holder will achieve this by offering specific lower limb advice and support to patients and their care givers, with a particular focus on coordinating the lower limb care service offer in the Locality team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder, with the support of the team lead, will lead and manage the lower limb service within the Locality team and be responsible for the management of the service caseload ensuring the provision of a high standard of nursing care to patients and their families in the community.
He/she will work as part of the integrated community health care team, working within and across professional and organisational boundaries. Liaising with GPs, other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies he/she will deliver individualised care to patients.
The Lower Limb Service Nurse Coordinator works without direct supervision and provides leadership to the community nursing team supporting the service, with the support of the team lead.
Working for our organisation
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement – London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,108 and a maximum payment of £5, 177 per annum).
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
Please ensure you meet the person specifications and have the relevant qualifications required for the role.
The successful applicant must be flexible, car driver, a good team worker, used to working under pressure, have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to communicate effectively with patients, carers and other members of the MDT.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities
- Awareness of the content and application in practice of the NMC code of professional conduct
- Extensive range of clinical skills including assessment
- Manage, implement and evaluate complex health care needs and make recommendations
- Understand the importance of disease management and rehabilitation in the community
- Effective management of team members, planning and delegating of caseload appropriately
- An understanding of working within budgetary and resource constraints
- Aware of current policy and professional, primary and social care issues
- An understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice
- Provide statistical data and reports as required for service delivery
- Understand the need for confidentiality when relating patients condition to relatives
- Ensure all risks are assessed and appropriate action taken to eliminate any risks
- Make recommendations as necessary and improve service delivery
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration – Registered Nurse (RN)
- Nurse Prescriber/Non medical Prescriber or willing to undertake
- Post Graduate qualification in relevant field
- Mentorship Qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Specialist Community Practitioner (District Nursing) Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working within adult services
- Experience of providing support and supervision to community team members
- Experience of facilitating groups/meetings
- Evidence of teaching and assessing individuals
- Project leadership experience
- Evidence of providing complex package pf care
- Evdience of innovations in practise
- Ability to mange staff conflict and difficult situations
- Experience of ensuring practise is evidence based
- Experience of clinical audit
Other
Essential criteria
- To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values.
- To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
- Involvement in providing learning environment for students
- Enthusiastic approach and ability to enthuse others to develop and increase their responsibilities within the team
- Excellent role model
- Able to work flexibly and respond to changing demands in workload/environment
- Approachable
- Applicant will need to be a car driver with valid UK licence with access to vehicle for work
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helena St Roas
- Job title
- Integrated care manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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