South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Community Nurses to work within our community teams based in South Warwickshire, including Southam and surrounding villages. This post involves travelling to the Oxfordshire border. Our community teams are developing groundbreaking new services designed to help patients better manage their own conditions, stay out of hospital, and utilize the latest systems and technology for efficient and effective health care. We have grown considerably in our community teams over the past few years and need excellent people to continue our journey of innovation and development. Ideally, you will have experience in a community setting; however, if you don't have this experience but are eager to work in the community, we still want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The community staff nurse is a member of the Integrated Health Team, undertaking professional duties in clients' homes and clinics to ensure high-standard nursing care and health promotion. You will work across professional boundaries, providing comprehensive health care sensitive to the local population's needs.
Many of our patients have long-term conditions and complex health needs. Working with us, you could gain skills in areas such as wound care management, catheter care, rehabilitation, IV therapies, and end-of-life care.
You need to be flexible, have your own transport, and be able to travel.
About us
Join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC, and we are recruiting new staff to help us improve even further. Our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for the recommended place to work. We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond, ranging from hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa, and Shipston-on-Stour to community services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organization with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways, and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up as: 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective, and compassionate care.' Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked to reflect on how you demonstrate these values and how they impact your work.
Job responsibilities
Main Functions
1. Act in accordance with current local Warwickshire Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children, and SWFT guidelines/policy to protect vulnerable adults and children.
2. Contribute towards ensuring AHP & Nursing Strategy is implemented across the Integrated Health Team.
3. Undertake the first contact assessment, including planning, implementation, evaluation, and reassessments of care plans.
4. In the absence of the District Nurse, take responsibility for the day-to-day management of the nursing workload, delegating the workload appropriately to other team members.
5. Establish priorities of care in accordance with caseload management.
6. Update and develop professional knowledge and skills related to clinical practice.
7. Act within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and comply with Trust policies and procedures.
8. Participate in the development, training, and mentorship of pre-registration students and staff as required, including induction and preceptorship programmes.
9. Provide skilled clinical nursing practices.
Communication
1. Develop and maintain effective communication networks with service users, healthcare professionals, and other statutory and voluntary organisations.
2. Promote and maintain accurate record keeping to conform to NMC policy and Data Protection.
Responsibility for Patient Care
1. Action referrals appropriately according to risk and need in accordance with service referral criteria.
2. Undertake planned and opportunistic health promotion and education activities with patients and carers.
3. Act as a patients' advocate where appropriate.
Policy and Service Development
1. Understand national policy and guidance and the ability to interpret and implement at service level.
Responsibility for Human Resources
1. Direct supervision of junior members of staff.
2. Act independently on a range of delegated tasks and use own initiative to manage workload within appropriate professional guidelines.
3. Participate in the PDR process to identify personal and team development goals.
4. Organise staff in the absence of the District Nurse (Band 6), reporting to a senior member of staff any anomalies.
Professional Responsibilities and Freedom to Act
1. Interpret national guidance on NMC guidelines.
2. Participate in clinical supervision.
3. Maintain clinical and professional competencies in accordance with relevant statutory legislation and guidance relevant to health professionals and their services.
4. Participate in mandatory and statutory training requirements and keep a record of all training and other developmental activities.
Responsibility for Research & Development
1. Ensure standards, protocols, and policies are evidence-based and applied to practice.
2. Keep updated with current clinical issues to promote best practice.
3. Use research to inform practice.
4. Participate in audits as appropriate.
General
1. Access to independent means of transport for work purposes to travel across SWFT and to other agencies.
Physical and Mental Effort
1. Undertake people moving and handling on a daily basis; handling of equipment such as hoists is integral to the post and may be required in confined spaces within patients' homes.
2. Operate as a lone worker in accordance with WCH policies and procedures.
3. May come into contact with bodily fluids including urine, faeces, and exudate from wounds (e.g., blood and pus).
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Mentor and Assessing Qualification or similar
Experience
* Experience of adult general nursing.
* Experience of working in a team environment.
* Experience of current developments in the NHS.
Skills
* Demonstrate an understanding of equal opportunities.
* Demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the role.
* Computer literate.
* Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Personal Qualities
* Able to work autonomously within the framework of a team.
* Work on own initiative and supervise other staff effectively.
* Ability to negotiate.
* Self-motivated.
* Effective communicator.
* Excellent role model.
Other
* Non-smoker during working hours.
* Willing to undertake a DBS to Enhanced/Standard level.
* Legally entitled to work in this country.
* Car owner/driver with full current driving licence and independent access to transport for work purposes.
* Willing to work flexible hours including Bank Holidays and weekends and participate in the cover of the evening service if required.
* Willing to travel across SWFT.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and 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.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
£29,970 to £36,483 a year, dependent on experience.
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