Senior Community Nurse/Charge nurse

Job summary

Due to internal promotion Andover and Winchester Rural North Integrated Community Team (ICT) are recruiting a full time Community Charge Nurse. The ICT model aspires to provide a responsive, safe ,effective caring service that is well led and is commissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims include providing a local point of access, proactive case management and adoption of a co-produced approach with patients and service users. The ICT, whilst operating from a local hub, delivers a joined-up approach across a specific locality, to deliver excellence in care and engages with all practices and wider stakeholders in the locality. The primary role of the Community Charge Nurse is to provide strong holistic leadership to the team and support the Team Matron (Band 7). In conjunction with a range of clinical colleagues, they will lead and facilitate a patient co-ordinated case management approach for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital, this includes those with chronic disease, complex care needs and terminal illness who wish to die at home. They will work across the caseload and the single point of access, utilising their clinical triage skills to identify the needs of patients, liaising with the correct services to ensure optimum care is delivered.

Please note that previous applicants need not a