A very exciting opportunity has arisen within the Leicester Renal Community Team, for a Band 5 Nurse.
You will be an enthusiastic 1st level registered nurse with at least 12 months’ post registration experience and preferably knowledge of renal nursing and dialysis.
The Renal Community Team is an innovative and forward thinking area, which offers a unique opportunity to further develop specialist nursing skills within a supportive, friendly environment.
The successful candidate will work as part of the Leicester renal community team planning and delivering high quality care for a wide variety of renal patients, this will include delivering pre-dialysis education, education and training patients on peritoneal dialysis and home haemodialysis, supporting patients and their family in the community and assist with reviewing patients in a clinic and inpatient area as required.
The Leicester Renal Community Team have supportive, visible leadership alongside a wealth of expertise who will fully support your transition into this friendly team.
Evidence of continuous professional development within the last 12 months is essential along with your skills and aspirations associated with the specialty.
The core working hours are Monday to Friday between 8am and 5pm.
Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of evidenced-based nursing care to a group of patients.
Support with providing comprehensive education programmes to patients' and their loved-ones to enable them to have their choice of kidney replacement therapy in their own environment.
Provide advice, support and information to patients and their family or carers as required and within the limits of the post holders knowledge and experience. To Liaise closely with senior members of the community team.
Assisting and contributing in the management and organisation of a community team in the clinical area and community setting area.
Actively contribute to setting and maintaining high standards of quality nursing care.
Actively participate in the education, development and supervision of other staff members.
Act as a clinical and professional role model, assessing and supporting students and learners on placement within the clinical area.
Work collaboratively and co-operatively with others to meet the needs of patients and their families, ensuring the health education and health promotion needs of patients are identifies.
Organise and perform investigations for patients in the community setting, support staff members in providing a ‘drop-in’ renal day case service and training undertaken on the unit in the training room in accordance with directorate policy and protocols.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
Perform comprehensive assessments of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health care needs.
Take responsibility for the care needs of individual and groups of patients.
Collect, collate and fully accurately report patient information, maintaining accurate complete and contemporaneous nursing records.
Involve patients and carers / relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
Maintain a safe environment alongside demonstrating high standards of Infection prevention.
Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure needs are met in relation to care input, support for ongoing care needs and safe discharge
Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers / relatives.
Recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
(Please refer to the job description/person specification for further details on the role)
This advert closes on Thursday 12 Dec 2024