Community Nurse in Redditch

Job Summary: An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Part time or Full time Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Teams in Redditch. This will give you the rewarding opportunity to provide optimal care to patients in their own home. Shift patterns are between 07.30-18.30. Flexible working opportunities are available and we would welcome you to discuss these options at interview.

The teams consist of Community Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Healthcare Assistants and admin staff with GP, paramedic and social care colleagues working closely alongside. This enables the teams to deliver planned nursing, therapy and admission avoidance/supported hospital discharge interventions to the adult patient population of Redditch and the surrounding areas.

We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible team player with a strong, quality driven patient focus and an ability to work through change to embed new ways of delivering care. The successful candidate will have experience in working within a multi-disciplinary team. In return we offer a great team environment, learning and development opportunities and supervision support.

Due to the nature of the posts the applicant must be able to travel independently.

Main duties of the job:

• A typical day as community nurse may start with greeting a diabetic patient and administering their insulin, followed by supporting patients at the end of their life to ensure gold standard care is delivered.
• You may then visit a few patients to dress a leg ulcer or post op wound, followed by changing a catheter to flushing a patients central line.
• Following a morning of visits you will return to the office for your team handover, this gives you the opportunity to discuss complex situations with your colleagues and undertake clinical supervision.
• You may then be called out to an urgent care response visit where a patient needs to be seen and assessed within 2 hours.

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.

We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

Job responsibilities

• Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.
• Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
• Use your initiative and take responsibility for yourself and the quality of your work and the service you provide to patients.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings.
• Enable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible.

Person Specification

Essential Experience

• Experience gained during Pre-Registration training

Desirable Experience

• 2 years post registration experience
• Community nursing experience
• Experience of management of caseloads

Essential Knowledge

• Variety of evidence based clinical skills
• Confidence to teach student nurses, trainee nursing associates, patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team
• Understanding of evidence based nursing, multidisciplinary working, clinical governance

Desirable Knowledge

• Competence in male and suprapubic catheterisation
• Venepuncture and IV therapy
• Cannulation
• Management of syringe drivers

Essential Skills & Abilities

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Basic IT skills
• Flexible, lateral thinker
• Reflective practitioner
• Proven ability to motivate others
• Able to work competently without supervision and set own priorities
• Responsible for own professional development
• Ability to understand professional and ethical issues
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN1)
• Accredited courses in palliative care, tissue viability, diabetes (desirable)
• Mentor award (desirable)

Additional Criteria

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role (essential)
• An ability to work in a variety of settings (desirable)
• Willingness to undertake further training (desirable)

Status

Permanent contract. Part-time or full-time. Band 5. Salary £31,049 to £37,796 a year pro rata.