Overview
Band 6 Team Sister – Gravesham Community Hospital
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Band 6 Team Sister, based at Gravesham Community Hospital, to be a key driver in supporting patients to recover from or manage their illness and enable them to stay healthy and well for longer.
You will need to manage a defined caseload, utilise your clinical skills, leadership skills and expertise to assess, triage, plan, delegate, organise and evaluate complex packages of health and social care tailored to individual needs and ensure that patients receive the right care at the right time by the right person.
Whilst you will be based at Gravesham Community Hospital you will be required to travel around the community to provide care that meets the needs of the service. Therefore, a driving license and access to a car for work purposes is essential for this role.
Main Responsibilities
As a Band 6 Team Sister, you will have caseload management responsibility in the following areas:
- Care interventions including wound management, end of life, unscheduled care interventions
- Provide support for patients with long term conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson’s, dementia.
You will also be responsible for assessing and interpreting the clinical condition of patients, in order to devise person centered care plans and will analyse the effectiveness, adjusting care as clinical status indicates. You will support the Senior Sister to manage urgent clinical issues as they develop e.g., crisis management of both staff and patients. Develop coping strategies for dealing with stressful situations with support from senior colleagues.
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description.
Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will be / will have:
- Registered Nurse (RN) with current live PIN on NMC register
- Teaching and Assessing NMC approved qualification
- Evidence of relevant post registration specialist professional development
- 3 years’ experience as a registered nurse
- Experience in a variety of settings including hospital and community
- Experience of managing a range of long-term conditions
- Experience of working collaboratively with Social Services
- Evidence of innovative clinical practice development
As this role requires travel, a driving license and access to a car is required for this role.
Please see job description for full list.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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