Twilight Senior Nurse

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Are you looking for a new role in a supportive and dynamic team or perhaps looking for your next challenge!
Home 1st Twilight nursing service provides out of hours nursing care to patients in need between the hours of 7pm and 2am. The Team respond to a wide range of patient needs during the out of hours period.
As a senior nurse within the service you will be responsible for providing skilled leadership to colleagues during the shift. This will include allocating workload and managing the caseload of the team. Prioritising patients based on need. You will manage the performance and development of staff, be responsible for providing supervision for staff, ensuring that a high standard of skilled nursing care is provided to patients.
You will use specialist knowledge in assessing, planning and implementing care and demonstrate high level problem solving and decision-making skills.
In addition to being extremely family friendly with flexible shift patterns, all hours worked in service are payed with enhancements.
Community experience is desirable but not essential.
As the senior nurse you will coordinate the shift ensuring that all staff carry out skilled evidence based nursing intervention. You will be a point of contact for staff on duty and use your skills to manage complex, challenging and demanding clinical situations. You will assess, prioritise and manage the active caseload, using coordination and leadership skills to ensure this is done effectively.
You will use your skills to teach staff, demonstrating and supervising nursing care to patients.
Provide managerial supervision to the staff you are responsible for including yearly appraisal.
Our commitment as an employer & in accordance with the NHS constitution is to provide you with:
Clear roles and responsibilities and a rewarding job so that you can make a difference to patients, their families and those who care for them and communities.
Personal development, access to appropriate training for your job and line management support to succeed.
Support and opportunities to maintain your health, well-being and safety and an environment free from harassment, bullying or violence.
A good working environment with flexible working opportunities, consistent with the needs of patients and with the way that people live their lives.
Fair treatment that is free from discrimination.
Opportunities to engage in decisions that affect you and the services you provide, individually, through representative organisations and through local partnership working arrangements.
Opportunities to enable you to be empowered to put forward ways to deliver better and safer services for patients and their families.
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.
Clinical Duties
Carries out skilled evidence based nursing intervention.
Manages complex, challenging and demanding clinical situations.
Teaches, demonstrates and supervises nursing care to patients.
Ensure clinical practice of the team is up to date and based on current evidence base.
Apply current Infection Control Policy issues and universal precautions.
Assesses, prioritises and manages caseload
Professional
Maintains current NMC registration and follows Professional Code of Conduct.
Actively participates in training and development of team members.
Maintains own professional practice.
Provides and takes part in Clinical Supervision.
Deals professionally with sensitive and confidential information.
Undertakes appraisal/annual reviews for team members.
Managerial
Priorities and allocates clinical work to team members according to competency.
Maintains accurate records and returns as required by service managers or the Trust.
Maintains staff rotas to cover caseloads.
Ensures team members have current mandatory training records.
Identifies clinical risk to Clinical Leads and reports on incidents.
Undertakes systematic caseload reviews

Please refer the Job description for details