A nights-only nursing post in the Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service of the Dorset Integrated Urgent Care Service, with community visits across the county. The work is face-to-face autonomous nursing care for adults referred to the team, including palliative care at home, plus telephone triage and driving the service's vehicles. It suits a registered nurse who wants to work within a multidisciplinary team of nurses, paramedics and GPs, on full or part-time hours of at least 23 a week. Visa sponsorship is not offered.
What the job involves
- Deliver face-to-face autonomous nursing care to adults referred to the team, in their own homes and in community, residential or healthcare settings
- Take responsibility and accountability for own professional practice and act as dedicated shift lead as needed
- Provide direct care to patients requiring palliative care
- Promote and sustain independence and wellbeing for the individual or carer
- Work alongside a healthcare assistant and a multidisciplinary team of nurses, paramedics and GPs
- Support managerial and clerical duties at the St Leonards hub, including telephone triage with patients, relatives and healthcare professionals
- Undertake personal development reviews for junior staff
- Ensure medical instructions are understood, followed and recorded
- Maintain the equipment provided in good order
- Drive IUCS vehicles across Dorset, sharing driving within the pairing
- Use the stocked nursing equipment in the vehicles, such as catheters, wound dressings and palliative care stock, during visits
Qualifications
- Registered practitioner training to degree or diploma level
- Learning and Assessing in Practice qualification or equivalent practice assessor training
- Recent professional development in an up-to-date portfolio and willingness to advance clinical knowledge on current evidence
Registration & licences
- NMC registration
- Membership of the relevant professional body
Experience
- Recent experience in a comparable role
- Supervised experience gained during clinical placements
- Experience of developing programmes of care for individuals or groups and giving advice
- Experience of demonstrating duties to junior staff, and of planning and organising own time and that of junior staff and learners
Skills & knowledge
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of practice
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Experience of electronic patient or service user record systems, and of evaluating data and producing reports in Excel and Word
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced or Standard DBS check
- Valid right to work in the UK without sponsorship
- Full valid UK driving licence
Other
- Written and spoken English to a standard enabling full performance of the role
Nice to have
- Post-qualification experience in an autonomous setting or role
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
What’s offered
- Professional development opportunities
- Career progression opportunities
- Trust covers the cost of the DBS check
- Rota patterns discussed at interview stage
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
