Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse - Rapid Response

Within the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust (MPFT) we have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse to join our Rapid Response Community Nursing Team in the East staff's locality. We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate nurse to further enhance the high‐quality patient experience we offer in the community.

The successful applicant needs to have a commitment to providing care in patients' own homes and residential homes providing acute care including IV antibiotics, line care, palliative care inclusive of EOL care and syringe driver and symptom management, tissue viability and pressure area care, diabetes care, continence care and managing long‐term conditions, being able to work on their own initiatives and work well within a team demonstrating these wide range of clinical skills.

Community services are managing patients with more complex acuity than ever before with increasingly specialist treatment and care being provided by highly skilled staff. For the right applicant training and development can be provided to meet the individualised needs of patients in our community along with enhancing skills and knowledge for the successful candidate including leadership skills.

Main duties of the job

The Adult Community Service provides care to patients in their own homes and is pivotal in the prevention agenda. You will deliver a high‐quality service, working closely with GP's and a multidisciplinary team in addressing a range of care issues across a spectrum of health conditions and preventing avoidable hospital admissions.

We are a friendly and innovative service covering Burton upon Trent and surrounding villages. As a service we have a great interest in moving Community Nursing forward in line with local population and service needs.

You must be a qualified nursing practitioner with current NMC registration. Previous nursing experience, able to demonstrate a commitment to delivering high‐quality targeted personal care and hold a full driving licence. You must be able to demonstrate leadership skills and be able to make sound clinical decisions independently. You will be expected to be a positive, influential role model, supporting both staff and service delivery.

Appointment to a development role is with the understanding that the successful candidate holds the Practice Assessor or equivalent mentor course/certification and has completed or currently undertaking relevant post‐qualification accredited study.

Post‐holders will be required to work flexibly on a rota system covering a 24‐hour service across a 7‐day week.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by supporting your career development and progression. We offer an excellent NHS pension scheme, generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave, options for flexible working, up to 27 days annual leave (increasing to 33 days with service level) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.

We provide extensive health and wellbeing support and resources. If you work in our community teams we pay for your time travelling between patients. Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate. Salary‐sacrifice car, bike, free car parking and free flu vaccination yearly. Citizens' Advice support linked with a hardship fund for one‐off additional support up to £250 (if criteria met). And more.

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like‐minded people.

Job responsibilities

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

• Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the role.
• Demonstrate at all times the Partnership Trust Values of: Putting People at the heart of what we do, Empowering Our Workforce and Working in partnership with others.
• Be a Registered Nurse and have detailed professional and clinical knowledge. Focus areas: IV antibiotics; Line Care; Palliative care; Management of continence; Administration of medication; Management of long‐term conditions.
• Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community and hospitals.
• Be skilled in the assessment of complex/specialist care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.
• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.
• Work with the Operational Lead and Lead Specialist Practitioner undertaking delegated tasks in team management.

Person Specification

• Degree in nursing or equivalent.
• Post‐graduate studies in nursing or recognised accredited study.
• Registration with the NMC.
• Mentorship or equivalent Practice Assessor Qualification in line with the new guidance.
• Modules at degree or masters level. Evidence of further clinical study.

Experience

• Relevant experience to the role including assessment and management of long‐term conditions.
• Ability to manage time and caseload effectively.
• Supporting service users, families and carers in dealing with the delivery of healthcare in the community.
• Working in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in direct patient care.
• Experience of negotiation and conflict management in clinical situations.

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.