Job overview
Unplanned Care – Staff Bank Senior Nurse (Band-6)
Are you a passionate, and caring nurse with a least two years’ experience in community looking to progress and develop your clinical and leadership skills in a dynamic community nursing team?
If so, then we would like to meet you.
We have vacancies for bank senior staff nurses within the Unplanned Care Team, which has an innovative approach to nursing care. It involves quick responses to patients in their home to assess, plan, manage and evaluate the presenting issue, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and help to facilitate early hospital discharges. You will actively undertake clinical visits, supporting patients in their own home; support the clinical band-7 with daily leadership; support junior members of staff and liaise with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Closing Date - 30th June 2024
Shortlisting - 1st July 2024
Interview - 18th July 2024
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a highly motivated applicant who is interested in meeting the challenge of working in the community with patients in their home setting. As part of the Unplanned care team, you will be working with a variety of disciplines within the multidisciplinary team to achieve the best outcomes for patients. You’ll be working on a rotational basis as part of a seven-day service covering 24-hours-a-day with the support of agile technology to help you deliver timely, high-quality care.
The successful candidate will have excellent clinical skills and be confident and competent in the management of palliative care, wound care and catheterization and catheter care, demonstrate leadership qualities, be able to support junior members of staff, implement high standards of patient care, and ensure a positive patient experience.
Unplanned services are committed to supporting your continued professional development and we will support you in your ongoing career aspirations.
If this is you, we’d love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
We are a provider of award winning, high quality mental health, community and learning disability services that look after the 'whole person', caring for their physical and mental health needs. We work with individuals, their carers and our partners to ensure that people get the right care, in the right place with the right support.
Our health care services cover all ages, so if you live in Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale or Craven.
We know that you want your care to be delivered in your own home, or as close to your home as possible and we are committed to providing high quality community care tailored to your needs.
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: - We Care, We Listen, We Deliver.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. NMC current registration
2. RGN / RN professional qualifications
Desirable criteria
3. Teaching / Assessor in clinical practice
4. V100/V300 prescribing for nursing or equivalent.
5. Postgraduate qualification
Special kowledge / Expereince / Competencies
Essential criteria
6. Ability to delegate work
7. Demonstrates effective management and development of staff
8. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the District Nursing service.
9. Ability to use Microsoft Office and Outlook
Desirable criteria
10. Previous experience of community health care (District Nursing)
11. Understanding and /or experience of managing patients with long-term conditions
12. Knowledge of diabetes management
13. Knowledge of wound care and care and leg ulcer management
14. Knowledge of SystmOne
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.
In view of Home Office Immigration Regulations all applicants must state their current immigration status, including expiry dates.
Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
The Trust’s purpose is to create connected communities and help people to feel as healthy as they can be at every point in their lives and our vision is to connect people to the best quality care, when and where they need it and be a national role model as an employer and provide our staff with the best place to work.
Bradford has been awarded the coveted status of UK City of Culture 2025. The year is set to deliver more than 1000 new performances and events including 365 artist commissions, a series of major arts festivals as well as exciting national and international collaborations. Its themes will be rooted in the unique heritage and character of Bradford and will reveal the magic of the district that is held in its people, its ambition, and above all, its potential.
We would welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health and care needs.
We welcome people from all backgrounds and in particular Bradford District Care Trust is keen to reflect the population we serve, we are currently underrepresented in terms of black and minority ethnic staff. Applications are encouraged from these groups, but it must be stressed that selection will be solely on merit and in accordance with the Trust recruitment policy.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.