An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to develop their career in the specialised area of District Nurse. This opportunity is now available in the Thame/ Princes Risborough area to become a Community Nurse within a newly formed team. We are welcoming highly motivated and effective team players, committed to providing a high quality nursing service within the District Nursing field. We are able to offer a full skills development and preceptorship programme.
We are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. All levels of experience are welcome in community nursing. Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a change in direction, we would welcome your application for this exciting opportunity to join the community nursing workforce. As a community nurse, you would be supported to develop into an autonomous practitioner; nursing patients with multiple complex health care needs in their own home.
Main duties of the job
Community nursing is a specialised area of practice. As a Community Staff Nurse, you will work within a locality team of District Nurse Team Leaders, Community Staff Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Healthcare Assistants, to meet the needs of the complex patient in the community and avoid admissions to acute settings. This includes medication administration, end of life care, managing the deteriorating patient, complex and simple wound care including negative pressure wound therapy and compression therapy, venepuncture, utilising advanced assessment skills and clinical nursing skills. We nurse people with a variety of conditions in a holistic manner in their own home and in residential care settings. Community nurses work in close partnership with social care and other primary health care professionals such as GP’s, Community Therapies and specialised services such as Tissue Viability, Diabetes and Heart Failure.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
* Registered Nurse or student nurse awaiting confirmation of NMC registration.
* Committed to own professional development to enhance practice.
* Post registration education and extended skills e.g. Intravenous drug administration, compression dressings (Desirable but not essential).
EXPERIENCE
* Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: Care of Elderly, Community, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Respiratory, Palliative Care, Long term conditions.
* Desirable but not essential: Knowledge of working with a single assessment, planning and the delivery of care.
* Experience of electronic clinical systems and technology e.g. RIO.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
* To be able to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, carers and other professionals.
* To be able to care for patients without prejudice related to gender, religion or disability.
* Able to work under pressure.
* Ability to manage own caseload.
* Knowledge of the NMC Code of Professional.
* Knowledge of the Data Protection Act.
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
* Car driver / owner able to travel to other locations within the trust.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the closing date.
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