Community Sister

We are currently seeking a Community Sister to join the Derwentside East Community Nursing Team. The successful applicant will work across the Derwentside locality and the surrounding areas from an office base in Stanley. The team cover 8am until 9pm, 7 days a week on a duty roster.

The post holder will be a caseload holder to ensure the provision of clinical management to Community Nursing and Intermediate Care Services. The role involves providing holistic nursing care to adult patients in their own home or residential care setting. Successful applicants will be required to hold a first level nursing registration with the NMC; additional training specific to the role can be provided.

Main duties of the job:

• Support coordination and delivery of high-quality nursing care that meets identified patient needs.
• Predominantly complex clinical care and caseload management with some coordination and supervisory responsibilities for health care staff between Bands 3 to Band 5.
• The Community Nursing Team provide both planned and reactive care including Urgent Community Response.

Job responsibilities:

• Provide a variety of nursing care to patients, including wound care, administration of medication, palliative care, management of bowel and catheter care.
• Assessment of patient care needs, care planning, delivery of care and review.
• Work independently as part of the wider Nursing team reporting back to the Team Lead.
• Support patient safety and clinical effectiveness providing expert evidence-based clinical advice and support staff within the team.

Person Specification:

• Communicates complex sensitive, confidential information concerning patients/clients displaying empathy, persuasion and reassurance.
• Demonstrates skills for assessing and interpreting complex needs of patients/clients.
• Plans provision of care for patients/clients.
• Assess, plans, implements and evaluates clinical care of patients/clients.
• Provides specialist advice to patients/clients/carers.
• Develops and implements specialist programmes of care.
• Imparts unwelcome news, care of terminally ill/safeguarding issues.
• Follows policies, makes comments on proposals for change.
• Implements policies and proposes changes to working practices or procedures in own work area.
• Supervises work of others; clinical supervision of staff, students; provides training to others.
• Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
• Leads an area or team; manages a caseload in the community.
• Occasional participation in R&D activity.

Physical Skills:

• Driving, carries out immunisations/resistance of patients/clients using approved techniques.
• Dexterity and accuracy required for intravenous injections, syringe pumps and infusion, insertion of catheters and removal of sutures.
• Ability to work hours flexibly when service needs require.
• Ability to travel independently.

Experience:

• Experience working as a Nurse in a community setting/team.
• Experience of managing a team and staff.
• Experience of audit/research.
• Experience of clinical supervision.
• Evidence of recent ongoing nursing development.

Qualifications:

• 1st Level Registration with the NMC (Adult).
• Professional knowledge of community nursing acquired through degree or equivalent level of demonstrable professional knowledge/experience.
• Supplemented by diploma level specialist training, experience, short courses which indicate a clear passion for nursing in the community.
• Physical skills course or equivalent.
• Non-Medical Prescribing.
• Management and leadership course.

Statutory Registration:

• 1st Level Registration with the NMC (Adult).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.