Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced B6 nurse or District Nurse SPQ with a warm personality and great people skills to work in our community nursing teams. You must have leadership experience and be able to demonstrate innovative practice and be informed of the current community nursing practices. You must also have post qualifying experience with either community nursing skills and competencies or transferrable skills and competencies.

You need to have effective management skills to take responsibility for caseload management of housebound patients with multiple nursing needs in the community with support from the Team Leader. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality evidence-based care for patients, their families, and carers in the community. This will include acting as a role model for staff, sharing learning and developing practice. You must be a car driver with access to a vehicle for work. Mileage is claimable via the trust expenses system.

Main duties of the job:

• The role of the B6 Community Sister/District nurse/charge nurse to manage the day to day running of a community nursing team in conjunction with the Team Leader.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the community nursing team are functioning at a high level providing excellent patient care for patients who are on the community nursing team caseload.
• The post holder will be part of a supportive team of other B6 across the other teams covering the north east of Hampshire providing a 7 day service covering the hours of 8am to 8am.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities:

• The post holder will effectively manage the community nursing team day to day.
• Undertake holistic assessments of patients new to the community nursing service.
• Complete assessments such as Purpose T, MUST/MUAC, wound assessments for all patients on the caseload and ensure that all staff members are completing these assessments.
• Manage chronic wounds such as leg ulcers, pressure ulcers using best practice and NICE guidelines.
• Manage short term wounds such as surgical wounds.
• Manage patients with JVAC drains, lantern drains, pig tail drains and flushes when required.
• Care for PICC lines and chemotherapy disconnections – Full training will be given.
• Care for other central lines such as Mid lines, portacaths – Full training will be given.
• Undertake the administration of intravenous antibiotics in the community, bolus or infusion.
• Ensure patients on the community nursing caseload have pressure relieving equipment in place or referred to the appropriate service for additional pressure relieving equipment for specialist items.
• Liaise with the patients GP when needed and communicate effectively with the GP practice to build relationships with our GP colleagues.
• Be part of the Integrated care team, attending weekly MDT meetings in the absence of a community matron.
• Be the patients advocate when needed.

Person specification:

• Experience

• Essential criteria: Post qualified RN, Ability to work unsupervised, Able to use electronic patient records, Support Patient and Person-Centered Care.
• Desirable criteria: District Nurse SPQ.

• Essential criteria: Current experience in Catheter care, End of life care.
• Leadership experience: Essential criteria: Qualified RN, Leadership skills from current role, Desirable criteria: District nurse SPQ, Previous B6 role.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.