Community Clinical Nurse Specialist (Virtual Ward) Band 7

Do you aspire to work for a forward thinking, progressive organisation that is highly regarded around the globe? Would you like to be part of a committed and supportive multi-disciplinary team that delivers empowering and compassionate care and support? Would you like the opportunity to develop your skills within an organisation that values their staff and offers a comprehensive wellbeing programme? Then St Christopher’s, and this role may be for you.

This post is an innovate, dynamic, autonomous role to support the development of the Virtual Ward Project situated in the London Borough of Bromley. Health & Social Care organisations in Bromley have agreed to work together to enhance and improve the range, quality and effectiveness of services available to local people. Working as a single system, the One Bromley Local Care Partnership intend to develop a strategy in common and jointly direct the resources, skills and assets available within Bromley in a coordinated way to achieve better outcomes. This service will provide care, monitoring and treatment at home to patients who otherwise would have been in hospital. The purpose is to either prevent avoidable admissions into hospital or support early discharge out of hospital.

We are looking for an experienced community nurse with palliative care experience to help us develop, and participate in, the Virtual Ward delivering a collaborative, integrated model of care that delivers a range of monitoring, interventions and care in the community to avoid and reduce hospital admissions. 

St Christopher’s has services spanning the London boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, and are connected to partner health and social care organisations in all the boroughs we support. St Christopher’s CARE, provides learning and development to the communities we support, and we have academic links with a number of universities, nationally and internationally. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced community palliative care nurse to join a new initiative within the St Christopher’s Bromley Community Palliative Care Team. 

Benefits of joining St Christopher’s

• You will gain a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community

• Access to excellent training and development opportunities including masters level education and non-medical prescribing

• A number of health and wellbeing schemes

• A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan

• Access to plenty of free local street parking.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Fiona Hodson - Nurse Consultant on 0208 768 4500 or f.hodson@StChristophers.org.uk

Please have a look at our website for further information on all aspects of St Christopher’s at www.stchristophers.org.uk and to apply for this position, please click the ‘Apply Online’ button below.

Hours: 22 hours per week - 12-month fixed term contract with additional opportunities available if you want to work full time 

Salary: £46,836 - £52,849 pro rata (inclusive of HCA, salary dependent upon experience)

Please note, salary will be determined on service and experience within the role

Closing Date:  6th April 2023

In the event we receive a high amount of applications, we reserve the right to close the job earlier than the initial closing date.