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Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London
Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)
Are you looking to progress your Clinical and leadership skills and be at the forefront of change?
We in the District Nursing team, have an ambitious vision for the Tower Hamlets community health service. We are striving to deliver high standards of care at the point of entry into our services, with the aim of improving access to the quality of life for all of our patients. One of our main aims is also to enable self care and independence.
Our staff are central to delivering the service vision and we are keen to recruit high calibre staff, who will be offered the support required to fulfill their roles as well as being provided with the training and experience to further their skills.
You will be a strong team player, an excellent communicator who is adaptable, committed, well organised and work well under pressure.
Having a sound clinical assessment skill and ability to effectively manage time is essential for the post.
Main duties of the job
- To work as part of a team ensuring all referrals are triaged and have a timely visit scheduled.
- To work as part of a team ensuring all new admissions to the Community Nursing services have a clinically robust assessment and patient focused care plan.
- This is borough wide cover.
- To introduce and enable self management and self care.
- To work as part of a team ensuring all patients have a safe handover to the professional and team to complete the care plan and measure the outcomes.
- To work in partnership with the locality teams and partner providers to maintain effective patient flow.
- To work within the financial resources for the patients and the service.
- To work shifts patters on a rota: (8am-4pm, 10am-6pm and 12pm-8pm) Monday to Sunday.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact the recruiting manager.
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.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Ability to organize and deliver high standards of evidence based clinical nursing care
- Ability to assess, monitor , plan and evaluate care
- Good organizational Skills and ability to priories work and delegate effectively to the team
- Ability to liaise effectively with members of the Primary care team.
- Experience and knowledge on holistic initial assessments.
Desirable
- Experience of managing a team within the health care setting
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Understanding and knowledge of the complex needs and long term conditions management.
- Good knowledge of safeguarding processes and able to escalate issues around vulnerable adults
- Sound knowledge and competence in IT and clinical systems for example Emis.
- Knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation
- Knowledge of information governance and the responsibility
Desirable
- Knowledge of HR process for line management of staff
- Knowledge of current professional issues facing nursing
Education/qualification/training
Essential
- RGN
Desirable
- DN Cert/Dip/Degree
- Advanced history taking and physical assessment course
- Non-Medical Prescriber V300
- Nurse Formulary prescriber V100
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This advert is for Senior Community Nurse with East London NHS Foundation Trust in Tower Hamlets Community Health Team. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse (community and district) role. The advertised salary is £47,951 - £56,863 Per annum inc HCA. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 06 Sep 2026.
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