Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
This job role will predominantly focus on delivering care to patients within the Community locality teams that are defined as Palliative/End of Life, but will also support patients that have a clear nursing need and are housebound and therefore unable to access such nursing interventions elsewhere. This element is delivered over a 24-hour period with nursing teams organized to deliver care during core hours, twilight hours and night-time hours. The service is provided to all residents with a Portsmouth GP.
The Community Nursing Service in Portsmouth is a seven-day service delivered over 24 hours.
The core service is operational between the hours of 08.30hrs and 17.00hrs. The service includes a number of teams: Days, Out of Hours team (twilight and nights) and the Care Home Team.
Main duties of the job
* Working under indirect supervision, as part of the Community Nursing localities, the post holder will have responsibility for delivering nursing care to patients who are palliative/end of life and housebound patients requiring nursing care within a defined Community Nursing caseload and within one or more GP practices.
* Safely manage self in high-risk area.
* To deliver nursing care by following a care plan written as part of a holistic assessment by the registered nurse for patients and their family/carers in their own home and other community settings to include:
o Palliative/end of life care
o Wound management
o Infection control
o Continuing care: including, rehabilitation, chronic disease monitoring and contributes to the delivery of the National Service Frameworks. This could include Venepuncture; Blood Pressure and Blood Glucose monitoring and the obtaining and/or testing of specimens.
o Public health: participate in health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities.
o Administration of medication, for example eye/ear drops.
o Continence and bowel care. This may include continence assessments.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NVQ III or equivalent experience
* NVQ II or equivalent, with a willingness to commit to NVQ III
* Full driving licence holder and insurance for business use
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)
£24,071 to £25,674 a year. Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
449-Team2-1513
Job locations
St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)
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