Deputy Twilight Nurse

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated Community Nurse, with strong leadership qualities to lead a team of staff nurses and health care assistants in delivering high quality nursing care to a diverse caseload out of hours across Hillingdon. You must hold a relevant Nursing Qualification with experience as a senior staff nurse. You should be a car driver and have access to a car for use at work.
You will be based at “Ickenham clinic” and will be completing patient visits within the borough of Hillingdon. The twilight team comprises of both Staff Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, who provide out of hours routine nursing care. The Twilight service works 16:30 hours to 00:30 hours.
The post is for 22.5 hours a week (three shifts). The job is part of a job share between three members of staff; you will be required to help cover annual leave and sicknesses on occasions. You must be able to work flexibly to meet the service needs.
You will have a leadership role in the management of the twilight team, delegating activities appropriately and monitoring the quality of care given.
You will take responsibility for the assessment, management and evaluation of evidence based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings, promoting effective teamwork within the wider Health Care Team. You will be expected to identify and promote areas for service development.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The Hillingdon Twilight Nursing Service provide nursing care to people in their own homes seven days a week between the hours of 16:30 and 00:30.
The Band 6 nurse co-ordinates the Twilight service and is responsible for the staff on duty, usually two band 5 nurses and three band 3 Healthcare Assistants.
Band 6 nurses work autonomously to provide a full range of services to house bound patients but are particularly skilled in wound care, catheter care, managing diabetes, medication administration, including intravenous medication administration and end of life care.
The role is interesting, varied and comprises both clinical and management duties. Band 6 nurses are expected to liaise with the District Nursing Teams to ensure seamless care. The distance nurses travel each evening is considerable and Band 6 nurse is required to be a car driver and have access to a car for work use.
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 6 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members.
As a Band 6 nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.
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 try to 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 that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
As a band 6 nurse we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.
Band 6 nurses work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 6 nurses are expected
to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of 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 the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process
We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Band 6 nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team by being an effective role model and supervising other Band 5 nurses, healthcare assistants/ support workers and students to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve

Please refer the Job description for details