Twilight Staff Nurse (Evening)

Job Overview
Band 5 nurses work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends, and carers, playing an important contribution in how people experience our services.

Band 5 nurses are expected to be kind and responsive, yet professional and informative, contributing to the quality of the services we provide by:

• Keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments.
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures.
• Ensuring that people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering, and working in partnership with them throughout the care planning process.

Main duties of the job
An opportunity for a Staff Nurse wishing to work part-time hours to join our friendly Twilight Team. Our aim is to be the best we can, offering excellent person-centred, safe, and evidence-based care to those who access our services. Our Twilight District Nursing Team delivers "out of hours care" to people in their own homes and/or designated buildings. The team is made up of both staff nurses and healthcare support workers who provide an out-of-hours district nursing service.

You must hold a relevant Nursing Qualification with significant experience as a staff nurse. You must be a car driver and have access to a car for use at work with business insurance.

You will:

• Perform joint visits to provide nursing care to patients allocated by a senior staff member.
• Take responsibility for the assessment, management, and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care to patients in various community settings, promoting effective teamwork within the wider Health Care Team.

Part Time: 4.5 hour shifts, with a total of 27.0 hours available to do job share between more than one member of staff.

The service operates seven days a week between the hours of 16:30 - 00:30.
The post consists of 4.5 hour shifts. The shift starts at either 18:00 until 22:30 hrs or 19:30 until 00:00 hrs depending on service needs. The contracted hours will be 27.0 hours in total available to do job share between more than one member of staff.
Recent previous unsuccessful candidates must not apply for this vacancy.

Working for our organisation
Values
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 nurses to act in a way which shows understanding of our core values and a willingness to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family, and carers, as well as other staff members. As a Band 5 nurse, we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment, and recognize that what you do and say can improve the lives of others. We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic. We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually provide information, resources, and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows recognition that commissioners and users of our services generate and pay for our work.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and offering patients and families a positive experience.

Job responsibilities:

• Using clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible.
• Safeguarding people by recognizing and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse, while also recognizing your own limits and seeking help and escalating concerns when necessary.
• Escalating safety concerns and acting as effective advocates for those who use our services.
• Being open and transparent about your own practice.
• Supervising the work of others.
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas for improvement in safety or quality.
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement.
• Maintaining accurate, legible, and comprehensive records.
• Maintaining compliance with mandatory training requirements.

Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria:

• Demonstrable post-graduate experience in a relevant area working with people with long-term conditions.
• Extensive post-graduate experience in a role undertaking assessments of complex needs.
• Experience of case management and care coordination.
• Demonstrable experience of clinical leadership.
• Clinical experience of caring for people with cognitive impairment.
• Experience of mentoring students.

Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria:

• Registered NMC nurse (Adult) or awaiting pin, diploma, or degree.
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines.
• Evidence of ongoing relevant CPD.
• Willingness to undertake further studies as required as part of this role.
  Desirable criteria:
• Community experience as a student or in a substantive role.

Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria:

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team effectively, using handover, face-to-face communication, and by telephone, as well as writing letters and reports.
• Able to maintain electronic patient records and have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement, and evaluate a care plan.
• Empowering and working in partnership.
• Safeguarding and advocacy.
• Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impact on their work and the people they are working with.
• Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes, and the patient experience.
• Knowledge of recent developments in health & social care.
• Able to pass on urgent client information to District Nurse/ Team Lead.
• Able to organize own workload without direct supervision.
• Act as a mentor to HCAs, Nursing Associates, and students.
• Understanding and appreciation of diversity and equality in practice.

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential criteria:

• Be a role model and embody CNWL’s values by being Caring, Respectful, Empowering, and working in Partnership.
• In addition, you will be expected to be: Willing to learn from and share with peers, Positive, Flexible, Adaptable, Reliable, Professionally brave and willing to advocate for your patients, An effective organizer with prioritization skills, Able to work with the NMC code, and have Attention to detail.