Community Staff Nurse - Kirkby Lonsdale District Nurses
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust
A secondment will be considered for internal applicants with prior agreement from your current line manager.
Lunesdale District Nurses to cover Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale and surrounding areas. The community care group has an exciting opportunity to recruit to a permanent 18.75hr community staff nurse band 5 position starting as soon as possible.
We would like an enthusiastic and highly motivated band 5 Community Nurse who will be happy to work in an evolving district nursing service. The successful applicant will be committed to working closely with health and social care colleagues to provide high quality care to patients with a wide range of medical conditions in the community setting.
Main duties of the job
The role requires excellent communication skills as you will be undertaking complex nursing assessments and developing and delivering programmes of care for patients and carers. The district nurses work a 24hr service and there is an expectation that you may be required to support this to ensure service delivery.
You will need to work collaboratively with other professionals, voluntary sector and informal carers to promote excellent care to patients in their own homes and community setting.
You will be joining an enthusiastic and motivated team who are friendly and approachable. We are very patient focused and staff development is high on our agenda. As part of our team we want to develop all staff to the highest standard.
You will need a full UK drivers licence and access to a car in order to fulfil this role.
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered General Nurse
* Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice
* Tissue Viability
Experience and Skills
* Evidence of Professional and personal development via a portfolio
* Scope of Professional practice
* Clinical Supervision
* Reflective Practice
* Knowledge of Primary Health Care Teams
* Experience of Clinical Audit
* District Nursing experience
Management
* Effective time management
* Demonstrate an awareness of current National and Local NHS activity within the acute and primary care settings
Personal
* Good interpersonal skills
* Team orientated
* Pro-active
* Ability to work under pressure
* Organisational skills
* Car owner/driver and full UK license
Research and Development
* Experience of research and development
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.
Salary: £29,970 to £36,483 a year (Per Annum Pro Rata)
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