Forest Neighbourhood Team is a friendly, supportive, and hardworking team who are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join us. The team operates from 7:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Sunday including bank holidays. Shift patterns include 07:30-15:30, 08:30-16:30 and 10:30-18:30 on a rota basis. Flexible working opportunities such as compressed hours are available.
We are looking to recruit community nurses on a full-time or part-time basis, who are innovative and keen to join the team in supporting us to deliver high-quality care, and to continue our development of integrated care in the community. The role is varied and rewarding.
We are looking for passionate nurses who are excited by change and are keen to help shape a new way of delivering nursing care in the community. We are a team of health care professionals who are focused on compassionate care. We work closely with our GPs and work hard at developing relationships with other primary care services, drawing on the skills of our MDT colleagues to manage complex patients and ensure our services are responsive and patient-centered.
Main duties of the job
* The ability to work flexibly on a rota basis
* An enthusiastic, motivated, and innovative thinker to become part of a primary care facing community
* The ability to work autonomously and manage your own caseload and work within a multi-disciplinary team
* The ability to problem-solve and manage time effectively
* The ability to communicate effectively with others at all levels
* Experience of working in a fast-paced and varied environment
* The ability to travel to deliver care services
Your typical working day will include home visits for adults over 18 years needing a range of nursing interventions. These include caring for people reaching the end of their life, managing their pain relief and other symptoms in a sensitive and compassionate manner, all types of wound care- post-operative wounds, leg ulcers, pressure ulcers and complex dressing regimes - you will become expert in tissue viability. Other skills will be in IV therapy and other injectable drug administration and holistic assessment of a person's needs, taking into account their environment and social circumstances.
Back at your base, you will be involved in team meetings, goal/care planning and evaluation and handover meetings. As part of the role, you will support pre-registration students in a supervisor and/or assessor capacity. You will also be required to support band 4s and HCAs. Your input is a valuable part of the team's work.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive, offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfill your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. It’s why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
What we offer
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
* Flexible and agile working opportunities
* Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
* Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)
* Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes
* Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
* Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on a day-to-day basis.
* Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
* Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.
* Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings to enable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This will be achieved through a combination of hands-on clinical skills and knowledge to treat, educate and support patients on a designated caseload and by working with patients and their carers to assess, plan and implement appropriate packages of care.
* Take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse when required.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Experience gained during Pre-Registration training
Desirable
* 2 years post-registration experience
* Community nursing experience
* Experience of management of caseloads
Additional Criteria
Essential
* Self-motivated and able to motivate others
* Team player
* Able to cope under pressure
* Compassion and empathy skills
* Able to meet the travel requirements of the role
Desirable
* Willingness to undertake further training
Knowledge
Essential
* Variety of evidence-based clinical skills
* Confidence to teach student nurses, trainee nursing associates, patients, carers, and members of the multidisciplinary team
* Understanding of evidence-based nursing, multidisciplinary working, and clinical governance
Desirable
* Competence in male and suprapubic catheterisation
* Venepuncture and IV therapy
* Cannulation
* Management of syringe drivers
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Nurse (RN1)
* I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer
Desirable
* Accredited courses in palliative care, tissue viability, Diabetes
* Mentor award
Skills & Abilities
Essential
* Ability to challenge poor behaviour
* Role modelling good behaviour that supports teamwork
* A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
* Ability to praise and be supportive to others
* Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in English in both written and verbal formats
* Ability to understand professional and ethical issues
* Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance
Employer details
Employer name
Address
Gemini House
Stourport Road
Kidderminster
DY11 7QL
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