Senior Nurse - Community Health and Support Team

Job summary

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre are looking for a Senior Nurse for their Community Health and Support Team. This position is offered on a part-time basis working 21 hours per week. This is an exciting role that would see you working alongside a forward thinking and supportive practice-employed integrated nursing team and dedicated administration team.

• Provide clinical leadership and operational oversight for the Integrated Community Support Team (ICST) and Community Matron functions
• Proactive, co-ordinated and holistic care for patients with complex health and social needs
• Aim to improve health and wellbeing, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, reduce frequent GP attendances
• Supporting patients to remain living well at home
• Drive integration between ICST and Community Matron services
• Line management of the team consisting of a nurse, HCA and a Care Co-ordinator - conducting annual appraisals, mentorship and professional development
• Service development
• Collaboration - working closely with GPs, social care, frailty teams, district nurses and voluntary agencies
• Represent the service at MDT and external forums

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre is a large GP training practice with three sites committed to providing excellent primary health care services with a strong emphasis on staff training and development. Based in excellent premises, our committed teams deliver a wide range of general medical services. We are a large training practice based in the town of Newport Pagnell with another surgery in the Willen area.

Benefits include:

• NHS Pension Scheme
• The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefits scheme
• Life insurance
• 20% employer contribution
• Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Health service discounts
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme - Wisdom offering counselling support

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.

• Experience of supervising staff/team management is preferred.
• Experience of working across health and social care boundaries.
• Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
• Experience in community nursing and managing long term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.
• Evidence of service improvement or audit involvement.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Advanced clinical assessment skills

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.

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

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.