We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated senior community nurse to join our team. The successful candidate will be based at Pershore Community Hospital and will provide leadership and support to their colleagues working within the Pershore and Upton Neighbourhood Team.
We are looking for a passionate individual who is excited by change and is keen to deliver nursing care in the community. The successful post holder will be triaging calls that are coming into the Neighbourhood Team. You will be able to achieve a balance of triaging and patient facing visits, as you will also be visiting patients within their home environments, conducting holistic assessments for our Intensive Support patients who are coming out of hospital via Pathway 1, or completing an Admission Prevention assessments.
We are a supportive team who are committed to developing services to provide individual care for our patients. We offer dedicated time for training and clinical supervision, with a supportive L& D Department to help guide. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress, as well as flexibility, professional development and a wide range of wellbeing and support.
There is an expectation for the successful post holder to work weekends and late shifts, to ensure the service is covered to prove safe nursing care.
Main duties of the job
The role will require:
1. Working flexibly to provide the service delivery need across the local area (the service operates from 7:30am 6:30pm, Monday to Sunday including bank holidays)
2. An enthusiastic, motivated and innovative thinker to become part of a primary care facing community
3. The ability to work autonomously and manage your own work load and work within a multi-disciplinary team
4. Experience of working in a fast paced and varied environment
5. Receiving calls for district nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy patients.
6. You will use your clinical knowledge to triage these phone calls which may either result in a same day visit, or advice and guidance can be given to promote self-care and independence.
7. You will manage and oversee the Intensive Support caseload, undertaking nursing assessments and reviews (72hours and 1 week), to maintain your own holistic assessment skills.
8. You will be involved in team meetings, goal/care planning and evaluation and handover meetings.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service.
What we offer
1. 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
2. Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
3. Flexible and agile working opportunities
4. Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
5. Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)
6. Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes
7. Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
1. Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on a day-to-day basis.
2. Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
3. Work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated care team providing rapid and planned expert professional assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings.
4. Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge, health promotion and holistic assessment skills.
5. Support the Operational and Clinical Team leaders in the delivery of best nursing practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Nurse (RN1)
* Graduate Nursing Qualification at Academic Level 6 or working towards.
* Preceptorship training
* Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development
* I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer
Desirable
* District Nursing Specialist Practitioner Qualification
* Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake
* Post-graduate modules in Leadership
* Practice Assessor
Experience
Essential
* Post-registration experience of working in a community nursing setting
* Experience of caseload management and/or organisation of staff
* Experience of active participation in interdisciplinary team working
Skills & Abilities
Essential
* Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in English in both written and verbal formats
Knowledge
Essential
* High level of clinical knowledge and skill
* Clinical Governance
* Good knowledge of community services and care pathways
* Health Improvement
* Good working knowledge of positive risk taking and effective risk management strategies
Employer details
Employer name
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Address
Pershore Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Drive
Pershore
Worcestershire
WR10 1PS
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