Senior Community Nurse - Nights

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 applications 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 a 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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the recruitment of a Senior Community Nurse within the District Nursing night team. This appealing role will enable the successful person to support the leadership and management of staff and the caseload within the District Nurse night service to meet the needs of the population. Interested applicants will need to be registered nurses who have relevant nursing qualifications to degree level, specialist post registration education and leadership training or equivalent experience.

Main duties of the job

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for a defined caseload.
• Ensure that the care needs of the caseload are met by effective management and appropriate delegation of work to other members of the team.
• Work in partnership with the primary health care team and liaise and cooperate with everyone involved in holistic patient care.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge, advanced analytical and practical skills, and the ability to communicate in a non-judgemental, empathetic way with patients, carers and other professionals.
• Provide clinical supervision and leadership to junior staff and support staff development.

The post holder will need to have good communication skills both written and verbal, have evidence of ongoing professional development and be able to work independently. If you would like to work in a forward-thinking area where your opinions and clinical judgements are valued, then this could be the job for you.

Working for our organisation

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire and offers a full range of District Hospital services and Community Health services to this population. Commitment to undertake ongoing in-service training and development is essential. You should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change. Our commitment to you is to provide the environment for this to happen and ensure that you are part of a defined preceptorship programme. If you are motivated to deliver high standards of care and have the personal qualities and characteristics as outlined in the person specification, then this could be the post for you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

When applying for this position, it is essential that you read the full job description and person specification which are attached. Please use the supporting information space to demonstrate your ability to undertake this role, drawing on your skills, knowledge and experience.

• Assess needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care for individuals and families over a 24 hour period, involving the patient, family and other carers at all stages of care and taking into account complex care needs.
• Undertake and be competent in complex clinical skills and case management to meet the needs of the patients on the caseload.
• Provide palliative and terminal care to patients and support and advice to carers.
• Verify expected deaths and complete the relevant documentation.
• Practice within current guidelines for the management of medication.
• Manage the polypharmacy and other medication issues with liaison with GPs as required.
• Provide specialist clinical advice based on evidence to members of the team and others involved in holistic patient care.
• Liaise with other health and social care professionals caring for patients in the community.
• Support the avoidance of unnecessary hospital admissions and also liaise with secondary care teams in order to facilitate continuity of care for patients, facilitating early discharge and evaluating the process.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• Registered General Nurse with relevant qualification at degree level.
• Community Specialist Practitioner Qualification.
• Evidence of continuing Professional Development.
• V300 Nurse Prescriber or willing to undertake.
• Leadership training or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 2 years experience in leadership role.

SKILLS / ATTRIBUTES

• Ability to identify high risk patients and plan and implement care.
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Knowledge of current NHS and Social Care systems and drivers.
• Car owner/driver with full UK driving license.

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 2 years community nursing experience.
• Up-to-date specialist clinical knowledge.
• Experience in the management of complex/long-term patient care.
• Evidence of ability to direct and co‑ordinate programmes of care working autonomously.
• Experience in working collaboratively with other disciplines/partners.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £16. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures. By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed. The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here. You must have appropriate UK professional registration.