Community Nurse Wisbech

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to be part of a team striving to make a difference with patient care in our community? We are looking for a Community Nurse to work in and around the Fenland locality. You will be fully supported to gain new skills and experience needed to deliver high quality nursing care to patients in their own home or residential setting.

As a community nurse, we will develop your wound care, palliative care, and long-term conditions knowledge and skills; supporting you to become an expert in assessment and care-planning to deliver quality care that is caring and compassionate.

If you are looking for a new challenge, or to just progress in your career, come work with CPFT Community Nursing Team.

Main duties of the job

• Have experience of working in the Community
• Are educated to RGN level 2
• Are able to demonstrate a commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Have the ability to work flexibly and as part of a team
• Have the ability to assess and formulate care plans
• Are able to teach and support student Nurses and Health Care Assistants
• Have enhanced communication and interpersonal skills

You will be responsible for:

• Keeping the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• Providing a high standard of care
• Providing a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient's own home, with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required
• Working as part of a 24/7 service and multidisciplinary team

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly underrepresented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period. Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities:

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs.

• To work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated multi-professional team
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• Provide support and education of peers, new staff, non-registered staff, and students
• To provide high standards of nursing intervention within a patient's own home, this includes lone working, with access to specialist and advanced practitioners when required

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Essential: RGN level 1, RGN level 2, Evidence of professional development
• Desirable: Mentorship qualification or equivalent, Management of leg ulcer qualification

Experience

• Essential: Community experience
• Desirable: Primary care experience and experience in wound care

Skills & Abilities

• Essential: Ability to work flexibly as part of a team, Good communication skills, Able to assess, plan and implement care and formulate care plans, Support Integrated Care Workers and teach and support student nurses and HCAs, Ability to safeguard and promote welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults, Good documentation skills
• Desirable: Understanding of clinical supervision

Knowledge & Understanding

• Essential: Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development, Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others, Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others and understands confidentiality, Responsible for maintaining registration with NMC and/or other professional bodies

Physical Requirements

• Essential: Kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments, Move and manoeuvre people and equipment, Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan, Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.