A Band 5 fixed-term post on the Hillingdon District Nursing team at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, running for 12 months. The role centres on home visits delivering complex community care, from wound care and catheterisation to IV medicines, palliative care and drain care, with a high degree of autonomous working. Shifts fall between 8am and 6pm, with weekend work roughly one in three, and new starters are automatically placed on the trust bank. Registration as an RGN is essential, but community experience is not.
What the job involves
- Deliver complex nursing care to patients in their own homes across the community
- Work autonomously as a community nurse, coordinating care for patients with varied needs
- Monitor blood sugars and administer insulin, with access to a specialist diabetic team
- Provide tissue viability and wound care, including leg ulcers, compression therapy, doppler assessments, VAC dressings and pressure and surgical wounds
- Carry out bladder and bowel care, including male, female and suprapubic catheterisation and continence assessments
- Administer IV medicines and care for PICC and midline lines
- Provide palliative care, including symptom control, anticipatory medicines and syringe drivers
- Care for drains such as rocket drains, nephrostomies and chest drains
- Work closely with the multidisciplinary team, specialist services and the wider integrated care system
What’s required
Registration & licences
- RGN with NMC registration
Experience
- Post-graduate experience working with people with long-term conditions
- Extensive post-graduate experience assessing complex needs
- Experience of case management and care coordination
- Experience of working across professional boundaries and communicating in multidisciplinary forums
- Demonstrable clinical leadership experience
- Clinical experience caring for people with cognitive impairment
Skills & knowledge
- Understanding of the wider NHS and social care contexts
- Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and DOLS
- Understanding of clinical governance and safeguarding of adults and children
- Extended and advanced clinical knowledge
- Ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care
- Ability to appraise complex situations and take appropriate action
Checks & eligibility
- Car driver or competent cyclist, able to travel to multiple sites
Other
- Ability to coordinate care autonomously and collaboratively, and delegate to staff
- Excellent organisational and leadership skills
Nice to have
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development
- Understanding of current health service issues
- Understanding of primary care
- Experience of audit and evaluation to improve healthcare
- Motivational interviewing skills
What’s offered
- Preceptorship programme with regular supervision
- Extensive in-house training programme
- Support from a newly recruited clinical nurse facilitator for new starters
- Automatic enrolment onto the trust bank at a competitive rate
- Relocation package where applicable
- High cost area supplement (HCAS), pro rata if part-time
- Access to specialist diabetic, tissue viability, bladder and bowel and palliative care teams
- Support for a healthy work-life balance
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
