Livewell Southwest appreciates that work-life balance is vitally important for our employees' wellbeing. Therefore, we have hours available from 22.5 - 37.5 hours per week on a permanent contract. Our core hours are 08:00 - 17:30, and we are open to discussing any working pattern within these hours to enable you to achieve the balance of home and work life that suits you.
The role requires positivity and excellent communication, leadership, and caseload management abilities. You will need to demonstrate integrity and initiative, sound clinical knowledge with evidence-based practice, and the ability to manage a team, approaching your work in a coordinated way.
We work integrated with primary care, adult social care, therapists, urgent & intermediate care services alongside our specialist services, informing our ageing well MDTs which facilitates shaping our future to deliver great quality care for housebound individuals.
If you have an interest in community nursing, preventing hospital admissions, and caring for people with complex long-term diseases, through to the last stages of their life, this role is for you.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Interview date will be held on the 13th January 2025.
Main duties of the job
As a Community Sister/Charge Nurse, your role is vital in terms of coordinating people's care and delegating to your team.
You will be required to be an autonomous practitioner, providing holistic patient-centred care. To champion for patients, you must demonstrate highly motivated leadership skills with the ability to influence/inspire others. The candidate must have the knowledge and confidence to have delicate conversations around advanced care planning in anticipation of end-of-life care, including treatment escalation, and have the skills required to make clinical decisions around resuscitation status based on the person's clinical presentation.
You will be required to undertake a robust induction and be allocated a supervisor to support your learning and development in your role.
We offer training in line with the required competencies for you to build on your past knowledge, experience, and skills. You will be expected to undertake continued learning with accessibility to accredited courses.
You will be required to be competent in diagnosing and investigating, with sound knowledge and judgement providing evidence-based wound management, pressure ulcer prevention, continence management, and palliative & end-of-life care.
Have a full driving licence and the ability to travel across Plymouth.
All LWS staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7-day service.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible, and collaborative. We are committed to involving the people we care for, families, and carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can.
We value our employees and make an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
* Protected CPD time for registered staff
* Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
* Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
* A Robust Preceptorship
* A bespoke induction programme
* Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job responsibilities
* Be responsible for the provision of planned and unplanned care to patients and their carers in a defined geographical area working as part of a twenty-four hour District Nursing Service.
* Be able to respond to urgent referrals for patients, carers, and the multi-disciplinary team.
* Triage and accept appropriate referrals directly from other disciplines, patients, carers, and members of the public and/or refer to other agencies where appropriate.
* Be responsible for assessing, diagnosing, planning, organising & reviewing complex packages of care including case conferences.
* Ensure privacy, dignity, and human rights are respected for all patients and carers.
* Undertake comprehensive risk assessments of all situations associated with the care of patients to ensure the safety of nurses and carers.
* Maintain accurate records, which are confidential, up to date, legible, and that all care given has to be documented.
* The post holder is required to comply with all infection control policies and guidance.
* Be responsible for organising own time management on a daily basis in line with caseload demands.
* Work within challenging and unpredictable environments, e.g. patients' homes.
* Act as a clinical advisor on healthcare issues within their area of expertise.
* Participate in an annual appraisal of their work in line with the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF).
Person Specification
* Familiar with and committed to the principles and values of the NHS.
* Demonstrate commitment to and focus on quality, promoting high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.
* Creates and fosters a culture of openness, honesty, integrity, and inclusiveness.
* Values diversity and difference.
* Uses evidence to make improvements and seeks out innovation.
* Demonstrates commitment to partnership working.
* Flexible approach to working.
* Highly motivated with the ability to influence and inspire others.
* Ability to act as a champion for patients/carers and their interests.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse with a minimum of 3 years post-registered experience.
* Community experience.
* Teaching skills.
* Nursing prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake nurse prescribing education.
* Mentorship Module or equivalent or willingness to undertake this.
Experience
* Clinical and Management skills.
* Current experience and knowledge in all relevant areas of clinical practice.
* Management/Leadership study days and Clinical Supervision training.
Knowledge
* Holistic, patient-centred assessment skills.
* Ability to assess acute/chronic patient conditions.
* Caseload/Team Management Skills.
* Understanding of Clinical Governance.
* Competent to the level for post in each of the dimensions of the knowledge and skills framework.
Skills
* Evidence of recent study.
* Ability to assess and treat patients using evidence-based practice.
* IT literate.
* Ability to work with difficult and complex situations.
* Team player.
* Ability to motivate others.
* Full Driving Licence.
* The post holder will need to travel and attend to service users based across Plymouth and other geographical areas.
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working.
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