Main area Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract Permanent
Hours Part time - 33 hours per week (Weekend Rota Cover included due to 7 day service requirement)
Job ref 388-6702668-NMC
Employer Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site St Edmunds Town Torquay
Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 13/12/2024 23:59
Out of Hours Community Registered Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse looking to join a friendly and motivated Out of Hours (OOH) Community team?
We are a supportive multi-disciplinary team who are passionate about delivering high quality care to housebound patients, in partnership with primary care and secondary care, covering moor-to-sea, coastal and Torbay districts.
Joining our team as Band 5 Registered Nurse, you will provide responsive, planned and unplanned support to patients requiring urgent nursing within their own homes and residential care settings.
We work in small teams of two which includes yourself and one Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) where you will work in partnership throughout your shift, this will include shared driving. Whilst working for our Out of Hours team you will have access to Trust provided Pool Cars for all of your work-transport needs to ensure you can deliver planned and unplanned care.
We believe in a healthy work life balance, should you be successful your full times hours will be 33 hours per week over 3 nights from 7am – 7pm, with 4 rest days. You will have regularly 1-2-1s scheduled to discuss your career progressions, off duty requirements, service improvements and a safe space to raise concerns.
Main duties of the job
* Working in partnership with HCSW to support patients and their carers
* Treating post non-injury or minor injury falls which can include wound dressings and supporting patients with catheterisation, bowel care and treatment escalation plans.
* Responsible for Community Nurse Equipment i.e., Scales, Bladder Scanner, Doppler
* Guide and mentor junior staff and students
* Escalate any concerns to team leaders or Community Nurse Lead
* Generate prescriptions and order pressure relieving equipment using available IT systems in place.
Working for our organisation
Our people are caring, committed, inclusive and focused on quality. We focus on solutions and people’s strengths. We encourage outside the box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement. If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team Torbay and South Devon.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Promote self-care with health education when visiting patients and their carers/family in order to increase understanding and promote maximum independence.
* Undertake Specialist Nursing and Continuing Care assessments (with appropriate training)
* The ability to work independently and as part of a team, managing own clinical caseload on a day to day basis
* Ensure confidentiality of patients and their care is maintained, demonstrating knowledge of principles and purpose of data protection - Record, retrieve and access information in various formats
* An ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information: using empathy and reassurance skills
* Can provide motivational and negotiation skills in areas where consent/ co-operation is required or there may be barriers to understanding. To include undertaking best interest decisions
* Ensure timely and effective communication with the team manager and other team members on professional matters
* Liaise with patients/relatives who could be unpredictable/or challenging in their responses because of stress related problems
Please see full job description for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
* Qualified Registered Nurse Level 1
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Community Nurse Prescriber V150
* Diabetes course
* Palliative Care Course
* Tissue Viability/ Leg Ulcer course
* Experience of continuing health care assessments.
* Experience of COPD or Heart Failure
Knowledge and experience
* Proven relevant experience in a range of clinical skills
* Relevant I.T. knowledge/experience
* Awareness of safeguarding adults and children
* Awareness of mental capacity act.
* Holistic client assessment using an identified model of care
* Ability to make sound clinical judgements and decisions
* To maintain timely and accurate written records
* Ability to demonstrate relevant team worker experience
* Knowledge of principles of Research and Audit
* Proven relevant experience in communicating complex information to patients, carers, and health and social care staff
* Health and Safety awareness
* Equality and diversity awareness
* Understands clinical governance
* Awareness of local and government agendas
* Previous experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment
Specific Skills
* Ability to demonstrate good time management skills
* Willing to undertake V150 community practitioner prescribing course
* Palliative care skills
* Understands clinical supervision and able to demonstrate relevance to practice
You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.
If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a ‘Staff Carers’ policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer’s Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
* We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Please apply promptly
* Please read the job description and tailor your application to reflect the role
* Correspondence will be via Trac, text and email. Please check your email and Trac account regularly.
* Applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the band
* If you have not received an invitation to interview within 28 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion
* It is your responsibility to assist us in the timely receipt of appropriate references
The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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