Main area Community Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekends, bank holidays and shift patterns) Job ref 382-FICC218-24
Employer Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Whitegate Health Centre Town Blackpool Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/11/2024 23:59
Community Staff Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Central neighbourhood integrated community team based at Whitegate HC.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool. With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our staff and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care. We form a central part of the Healthier Fylde Coast Integrated Care Partnership and our progressive approach to partnership working in the area provides an enviable opportunity to redesign and deliver services that meet the challenges of today’s health system.
Main duties of the job
As a community nurse you will gain a unique set of skills. As a team we will support you to gain these skills by providing appropriate extra training.
We will also provide the following to ensure your transition to a new area / team is as smooth as possible by:
* Robust induction period
* Preceptorship programme
* Protected supernumerary time
* Clinical 1 to 1 and supervision sessions with Clinical Lead
* In House and external training provision.
The main duties of the role are to provide holistic, patient centred, evidence based care to individuals in their own home setting. This will include:
* Administration of medications
* Care of the elderly
* Palliative care and assessment of needs
* Wound care
* Drain management
* Holistic assessments and risk bundles
* Observations
* Venepuncture
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool. With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our staff and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care. We form a central part of the Healthier Fylde Coast Integrated Care Partnership and our progressive approach to partnership working in the area provides an enviable opportunity to redesign and deliver services that meet the challenges of today’s health system.
We are not underestimating the challenges facing today’s health system but believe there are the foundations here in Blackpool to deliver truly excellent, integrated services that can make a major impact on the lives of the thousands of people we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the individual requirements of patients and carers referred to District Nursing.
* Provide a high standard of evidence based nursing care to patients in the Community.
* Use a high level of communication skills with patients and their families, including those with English as a second language or learning disabilities, to communicate condition-related information.
* Actively seek to promote health both individually and to patients and carers.
* Administer drugs within NMC guidelines.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse level 1
* Evidence of ongoing professional development
* V 150 Non-medical prescriber or willing to undertake.
* NVQ Assessor
Experience
* Able to deal with difficult situations.
* Ability to Identify and assess patient’s needs.
* Ability to use resources appropriately.
* 18-24 month’s community experience.
* Chronic disease management
* Multidisciplinary working
Skills
* Good team worker.
* Ability to organize self and others by prioritizing and delegating as needed.
* Ability to teach.
* IT literate.
* Clinical audit knowledge or ability to participate.
* Willing to develop professionally.
* Up to date knowledge of current NHS issues and aware of current trends in the NHS.
* Good hand/eye coordination.
* Able to make decisions on evidence based practice.
* Able to communicate sensitive information to patients.
* Ability to ensure equality and value diversity.
* Understand implications of lone working.
* Adaptable.
* Non-judgmental.
* Flexible attitude to work.
* Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job.
* Motivated.
* Evidence of self-development.
* Approachable.
* Ability to communicate effectively in English.
Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.
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