We wish to recruit a band 5 Staff Nurse to join our integrated Locality Teams in Gateshead.
You will work for a forward thinking Trust, in a dynamic and transformational business unit, committed to working within a cycle of continuous improvement, with the patient at the Centre of all you do. The locality teams are multi professional working in collaboration to ensure safe, highly effective patient care.
This post will provide an exciting opportunity to work differently within a new initiative to deliver a high quality service to patients in Gateshead.
You will need to be motivated, organised and flexible. The service core hours are 8am - 4:30pm but we do cover the service 8am - 8pm, 7 days per week. You will be expected to work flexibly to deliver service needs.
You must be a car owner/driver.
Full and part time hours available.
Main duties of the job
The delivery of high standards of clinical practice that hold patients and their families at the center to ensure that they receive safe, quality care that gives them a good experience.
To be responsible for delivery of an identified package of care under the supervision and direction of Specialist Nurse Practitioner/Senior Nurse/Locality Team Lead.
Job responsibilities
To provide high quality patient care in the community setting under the direction and supervision of a senior nurse/practitioner.
To support the assessment of the health and health related needs of patients, clients, their families and other carers.
To assess, plan, provide and evaluate nursing care to meet care needs of individual patients and carers in their own homes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NMC registration
* Degree or willing to work towards
* Teaching qualification
Experience
* Portfolio of professional development post registration
* Ability to organise workload
* Ability to prioritise appropriately
* Ability to work under pressure and achieve tight deadlines in a complex/changing environment
* Experience of working in a multiprofessional team
* Leadership and management experience
* Working with the frail elderly
* Previous Community experience/ NHS
* Experience of undertaking research and audit
Skills / Attributes / Knowledge
* Ability to maintain excellent communication verbal and written.
* Ability to make decisions and demonstrate leadership skills
* Enthusiastic with a "can do" approach
* Displays Gateshead Health Trusts values and beliefs
* Trained in moving and handling procedures
* Flexible approach to service delivery
* Good interpersonal skills.
* Car Driver
* IT skills and knowledge
* Resilience and robust coping mechanisms
* Specific Community Nursing skills eg Leg Ulcer management and assessment, Palliative care qualification
Physical Requirements
* Able to move and handle safely
* Ability to travel independently
* Frequent movement from car to building
* Working in changing environments, open plan office, regular interruptions and noisy environments
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.
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