Senior Nurse for Unscheduled Care

Are you an experienced Community Nurse wanting a new and exciting challenge? This post is to work within the Community Nursing team to deliver unscheduled care to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and ensure patients receive a two hour response when clinically indicated.

We offer Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and NHS Pension. Procare are committed to supporting the development of all employees to their full potential and all employees working within the Procare Community Services adult community nursing service will additionally have access to the staff benefits, learning and development opportunities offered by the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job:

As a senior nurse, you will support the Community Nursing team to ensure effective, efficient, safe, and high-quality nursing care for patients and carers, ensuring unnecessary hospital admissions are avoided and ensuring patients known to the Community Nursing team receive a two hour response when clinically indicated.

Post holders will be available to work Monday to Sunday between 8am and 8pm. A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however, reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Procare Community Services are not a UKVI sponsoring organisation, so all candidates are required to have their own independent right to work.

Working for our organisation:

The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.

With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.

We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

To deliver nursing care in accordance with national and local policy and guidance and in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The successful applicant will work within the Community Nursing service to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and ensure patients receive a two hour response when clinically indicated.

Job Purpose:

The post holder will ensure the provision of the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs, instigate, and provide clinical treatments using evidence-based practice to prevent hospital admissions.

The post holder will visit adult patients in their own home who have an identified nursing need including those with a long-term condition, complex care needs and needing care at home and at the end of life for physical and symptomatic nursing care.

The post holder will use an electronic patient held record system, EMIS, as a record of care and all our nurses are provided with a work iPhone and iPad for mobile working.

To ensure the Urgent Community Response Two Hour National standard is met for patients on the Community Nursing caseload with an urgent need.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• Registered Level 1 Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
• Practice Supervisor and Assessor (to be completed within 1 year of post)

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Band 6 experience in the community setting
• Ability to prioritise visits in accordance with patient need and to organise workload without direct supervision
• Experience prioritising and allocating assessments in accordance with patient clinical need and individual competencies
• Broad range of clinical skills relevant to Community Nursing, including but not limited to Compression Bandaging, Dopplers, Venepuncture, Male & Suprapubic catheter, Syringe drivers and Palliative care Symptom Management.
• A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post; however, reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.