Are you a compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) seeking a new opportunity? We have Community Staff Nurse positions available within the team, based in Taunton. Our service covers the urban and rural areas of Taunton, Wellington, and surrounding villages. The Taunton DN team work a mixture of shifts, including 8am-4pm, 9am-5pm or 10am-6pm, 2pm-10pm and weekends which include additional unsocial hours enhanced payments. There are no night shifts. We offer flexible working solutions where possible to ensure a work-life balance and part-time hours will be considered. You'll need to be a car driver with your own vehicle to visit patients. We offer a generous mileage allowance to cover the use of your car for NHS business, which includes both mileage and depreciation. If you're a qualified RN looking for a rewarding challenge to advance your nursing career, join our friendly, and highly skilled team of nurses and support staff. We also welcome applications from newly qualified nurses, where we can offer you preceptorship to support and guide you in your new role.
Main duties of the job
As a community RN, you'll provide care to patients in their homes, managing a range of complex health issues and collaborating with various other disciplines. You'll also work closely with the Hospital @ Home team, focused on preventing acute admission. You'll develop a broad range of nursing skills, including IV medication administration, palliative and end-of-life care, complex wound management, catheter and continence care, diabetes management, PICC line care, medication administration, and drain tube management. You'll need to make autonomous clinical decisions and create holistic care plans, with the support of your colleagues and Team Leaders. Comprehensive training and guidance will be provided by our two dedicated Clinical Lead nurses.
About us
As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts. The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London. There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
Staff Nurses work as part of a team providing high quality and compassionate care to individuals. The Staff Nurse is an autonomous practitioner who is responsible for the holistic assessment of both complex and simple care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of care and delegation of care where appropriate to other members of the team. They will support the multidisciplinary team in the delivery of high quality care to enable individuals to achieve their person-centred goals.
The Staff Nurse will take responsibility of the patient's care pathway and non-clinical duties in the absence of the line manager. They will have the understanding to address complex problems in their day to day work, reporting concerns to a line manager.
The Staff Nurse will work in a range of healthcare settings and teams and have a flexible approach to the working day in order to meet the needs of the patient and the service.
The Staff Nurse will be able to work effectively as part of a team and will always act within the limits of their competence, knowing who to ask for help and support as required. Staff Nurses will operate within agreed ways of working, following the relevant standards, policies and protocols used in their workplace including the standards in the NMC Code; Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Appropriately registered with the Professional body as per post requirements
* Evidence of continuing professional development and to have undertaken post registration training
* Coaching/mentorship
Experience
* Knowledge of current national policies affecting the NHS
* Knowledge of relevant NHS legislation
* Knowledge of audit and research skills
* Understanding of Clinical Governance
* Knowledge of physical health needs or know where to access appropriate advice
* Knowledge of mental health needs or know where to access appropriate advice
* Substantial experience in the required setting
* Demonstrate clinical and managerial leadership ability
* Experience of working in multi-agency services.
* Ability to undertake the higher level clinical skills required for the specialist area
* Experience of mentoring
Additional Criteria
* COMMUNICATION SKILLS
* Evidence of a good standard of literacy/English language skills
* Ability to communicate in a professional way with people at all levels of understanding either face to face, on the telephone, e-mail or written communication by dealing with incident reports or writing statements
* Compassionate - with the ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers and relatives remaining sensitive and empathetic.
* Compassionate - Open minded, treats colleagues, patients, carers and relatives with dignity and respect.
* Recognising in yourself and others the impact that frequent exposure to distressing circumstances has on care and compassion and being able to respond professionally
* PLANNING & ORGANISING SKILLS
* Professional and patient focussed approach, acting as a role model to colleagues and junior staff members.
* Ability to manage own time and time of others
* Ability to recognise and manage challenging situations in a calm and professional manner.
* Ability to assess clinical situations and act appropriately
* Able to take instruction and direction and work effectively as part of a team.
* PHYSICAL SKILLS
* Basic computer literacy including word processing and email
* Flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of the patients.
* OTHER
* Act in a way that supports equality and diversity.
* Ability to motivate self and others
* Ability to work on own initiative as required and within agreed policies and procedures
* Willingness to use technology to improve standards of care and support to our patients
* Must be a car driver with a valid driving licence or have access to transport with appropriate business insurance in order to travel throughout the Trust as appropriate for role.
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.
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