PCN Clinical Lead

Job overview

The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us.

We believe in treating the whole person, not just the condition.

We are looking for a skilled Clinical Lead to manage our Community Nursing Team based in the Dover area.

Our Community Nursing Team’s provide interventions for housebound patients aged 18 and over delivering personalised nursing care to those with complex and long-term conditions. Our aim is to enable our patients to stay at home and prevent avoidable hospital admissions.

Members of our team are supported to develop advanced skills to manage the complexity of patients on the caseload through a variety of training opportunities.

Main duties of the job

As an experienced Community Nurse, you will be able to provide your team with sound clinical judgement and act as a role model for your profession.

You will be accountable for your team’s activity, undertaking or delegating the triage of new referrals, coordinating the care delivery and allocation of work to members of the team with the appropriate competencies. Taking responsibility as the senior clinician you will be a problem solver and decision-maker, assessing complex patients and planning their care needs.

You will be responsible for responsible for ensuring appropriate allocation of staff resources on the duty roster, managing annual leave and ensuring staff remain compliant with mandatory and essential training. There is a need to ensure that capacity and demand for the service is managed effectively and concerns are escalated in the appropriate manner.

The Community Nursing service is offered to all housebound adults, daily including bank holiday and weekends so the shift patterns cover 08:00 until 18:00; however this role is primarily Monday to Friday with flexibility required to meet the needs of the team and the role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).

Job responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.