Employer: Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Wooler/Belford
Town: Belford
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/11/2024 23:59
Community Staff Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients.
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the District Nursing Service in rural Northumberland as a Community Staff Nurse.
We are looking for enthusiastic staff nurses to join our district nursing team working across sites between Wooler and Belford. This is a fantastic opportunity to become a team member in an exciting service committed to providing patient centred care to patients in their own homes, residential care settings and in clinics.
Main duties of the job
Community staff nurses work autonomously and as part of a team, reporting directly to their line manager, the community nursing team lead, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for a diverse group of patients with a wide range of conditions and health needs.
* The development and delivery of programmes of health and social care.
* The delivery of care and support to patients with a terminal illness and their families including the provision of emotional and bereavement support.
* The performance of skilled nursing care including aspects of assessment, wound management, palliative care and catheterisation.
* The performance of diagnostic tests such as Ankle Brachial Pressure Index using Doppler and the interpretation of the results to decide further courses of action.
* Performance of procedures which require fine dexterity and skill such as venepuncture, drug administration by injection and the removal of sutures.
* Interpretation of results and the communication of these to patients e.g. blood glucose estimation.
* Explaining aspects of care to patients and carers allowing the opportunity to ask questions and raise concerns.
* Maintenance and promotion of high standards of professional practice including the sharing of approaches and experience with others.
* Maintain a duty of care to patients, carers and colleagues through the exercise of personal and professional accountability.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Community staff nurses work autonomously and as part of a team, reporting directly to their line manager, the community nursing team lead, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for a diverse group of patients with a wide range of conditions and health needs.
Person specification
Qualifications
* State Registration on Part 1 of the 3 part NMC register
* Additional clinical qualifications or equivalent derived through experience at diploma / degree level if experienced
* Newly qualified staff will be required to undertake the Trust preceptorship programme within the first year in post.
* Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience of working without direct supervision in a health care environment
* Ensuring the delivery of ‘Compassion in Practice’ - Nursing, Midwifery and Care Staff Vision and Strategy, incorporating the 6C’s
* Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
* Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post.
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