Community Nurse - Faringdon Team, South West Locality
Band 5
Main area Community Health Services Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Compressed hours
* Annualised hours
37.5 hours per week (The post involves working weekends, bank holidays and late shifts on a rota basis.)
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Site Faringdon Medical Centre District Nurses South West locality. Town Faringdon Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum/pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 13/03/2025 23:59
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
Job overview
Whether you are an experienced nurse looking for a new challenge or newly qualified, community nursing is for you!
We would be delighted to offer you the opportunity to join our innovative, dedicated, and supportive Faringdon DN team delivering outstanding care within the South West district nursing locality. We pride ourselves on working collaboratively with our colleagues across the South locality to provide a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to care delivery.
Main duties of the job
This opportunity is available to nurses who are ready to take the next step into developing their own community career. In return we will support your progression through a District Nursing career progression framework, including advanced clinical practice and leadership training in this area. You will also receive regular 1:1 support and development and annual appraisal, regular group clinical supervision with your peers, and a comprehensive internal training programme around clinical competencies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our friendly teams are passionate about community nursing and relish the opportunity to use their skills, experience, and knowledge to provide nursing care in people’s own homes. They are enthusiastic and take pride in supporting their team to deliver proactive, caring, safe and excellent standards of patient care to their local communities. Our community nurses work autonomously, delivering high quality and evidence-based nursing care, see problem-solving as a positive challenge, and are creative in many varied and unpredictable clinical situations.
The District Nursing service in Oxfordshire is at the heart of developments in community care, as per the NHS Long Term Plan. A crucial part of the integrated community plans is recognition of the value of the District Nurse Specialist Practitioner Qualification for District Nursing Team Leaders, as advocated by The Queen’s Nursing Institute, The King’s Fund, and the RCN with which we can support you.
The service currently operates 7 days a week between the core hours of 0800-1830. Shift patterns available are varied and can be discussed at interview with a flexible approach. Posts are available in various South West district nursing teams.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered General Nurse (adult).
* Educated to degree level or equivalent
Knowledge and Experience
* Knowledge around long term conditions and their management.
* Evidence of ongoing professional development.
* Ability to supervise and support a range of individuals including team members, formal and informal carers.
* Demonstrates leadership skills. Ability to plan and organise own and others work.
* Previous experience of implementation of change.
* Previous Community Services experience.
Technical expertise/competence
* Demonstrates an understanding of local and national issues influencing the delivery and development of health care.
* Demonstrates a knowledge and understanding of evidence based care.
* Demonstrates an understanding of the Clinical Governance requirements.
* European Computer Driving Licence or equivalent.
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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