Senior Nurse - Community Health and Support TeamNHS

Job summary

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre are looking for a Senior Nurse for their Community Health and Support Team. This position is offered on a part-time basis working 21 hours per week. This is an exciting role that would see you working alongside a forward thinking and supportive practice-employed integrated nursing team and dedicated administration team.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership and operational oversight for the Integrated Community Support Team (ICST) and Community Matron functions
• Proactive, co-ordinated and holistic care for patients with complex health and social needs
• Aim to improve health and wellbeing, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, reduce frequent GP attendances
• Supporting patients to remain living well at home
• Drive integration between ICST and Community Matron services
• Line management of the team consisting of a nurse, HCA and a Care Co-ordinator - conducting annual appraisals, mentorship and professional development
• Service development
• Collaboration - working closely with GPs, social care, frailty teams, district nurses and voluntary agencies
• Represent the service at MDT and external forums

Job description

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

About us

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre is a large GP training practice with three sites committed to providing excellent primary health care services with a strong emphasis on staff training and development. Based in excellent premises, our committed teams deliver a wide range of general medical services. We are a large training practice based in the town of Newport Pagnell with another surgery in the Willen area. Benefits include:

• NHS Pension Scheme
• The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefits scheme
• Life insurance
• 20% employer contribution
• Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Health service discounts
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme - Wisdom offering counselling support