Digital Health & Care Nurse Specialist Practitioner
Job Description
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Oxleas' Adult Community Physical Health and Adult Community Mental Health Services. We are looking for a highly motivated senior nurse with significant clinical experience and a proven record of leadership, change management and innovation. The role will encompass expert clinical nursing care along with key responsibilities for service development, education and training, professional leadership and consultancy.
This is an exciting time to join us as we embark on an innovative transformation project. The use of digital technology in Greenwich is helping people to stay in their homes, be more independent and better manage their health conditions. Our vision is for Greenwich residents to receive the highest quality of care in the safest environment and wherever possible, this will be their home.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for embedding a new mindset across the systems in which you will be operating, supporting your health and social care peers with understanding and embracing the vision for how technology can transform people's lives, helping them live more independently at home, better connect to community and loved ones, and manage or improve their health conditions.
As a senior clinician you will exercise autonomy and provide appropriate clinical assessment, formulation and interventions. You will demonstrate excellent communication skills, working collaboratively with service users, families, operational teams, our culture change partner and the ATEC service provider to achieve the best possible outcomes.
The post holder will be based at the Woolwich Centre and will be expected to travel regularly within the borough of Greenwich, working across the community physical and mental health directorates. We envisage that the role requires a combination of working from a team base and remote working.
You will work alongside a specialist occupational therapist and specialist social worker, in close collaboration with stakeholders and partners in RBG, Oxleas and the NHS to drive forward this exciting and aspirational new integrated service for residents in Greenwich.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for detailed job description, main responsibilities and role requirements
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- A registered nursing professional qualification
- Current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
- MSc degree qualification or equivalent, within the candidate's professional field
Experience
Essential
- 5+ years of experience working as a Nurse in an NHS acute or community setting
- Evidence of leading effectively at a senior level in a multi-disciplinary health and social care setting
- Evidence of promoting clinical research, evidence-based practice, clinical excellence and quality approaches to support outcome focussed care
- Proven expertise in establishing and managing ongoing relationships with key stakeholders
- Experience in managing a complex caseload
- Risk Analysis management - experience of making and communicating recommendations based on analysis, investigations and risk assessment
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of clinical processes and pathways
- Understanding of relevant health care legislation and its impact on practice (e.g. Mental Capacity 2005, NHS and Community Care Act)
- Produce and present complex information in a variety of formats at board level and to large groups of staff and external stakeholders
- Develop and implement highly specialised programmes of care; care packages; provide specialised clinical advice concerning care
- Develop, deliver and evaluate training packages, for a range of audiences including Trust staff
- Information governance knowledge and demonstrable experience of its application in health and care, including work with partners across integrated care systems
- With the MDT, implement and evaluate systems that monitor risk.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Woolwich Centre
35 Wellington Street
London
SE18 6HQ
