Community Staff Nurse - District Nursing

Contract - Fixed Term - Full time

Contract - Fixed Term - Full time Do you want to be able to provide holistic, patient centred care while being part of a friendly and supportive team? We are recruiting nurses like you now!

Our District Nursing Service is forward thinking, hardworking and dynamic which we pride ourselves on. We are committed to making a difference for our patients and providing good quality care. We deliver services across the diverse and exciting boroughs of Islington and Haringey – providing fantastic opportunities to develop your skills.

We are looking for a nurse to join our Haringey West District Nursing Team on a fixed term contract until September 2027.

We have a strong and supportive nursing leadership team and a dedicated Professional Development Team to guide and support you in your professional development.

We Offer You The Following

• On-going learning and development opportunities including leadership courses and clinical skills such as catheterisation, leg ulcer management, palliative care and intravenous medication administration
• A structured induction programme for community nurses
• Personal safety device
• IPADS and mobile phones
• A comprehensive 12-month preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses which has been awarded the national preceptorship quality mark
• High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) additional to your basic pay depending on borough

Our district nursing team’s visit adults who are housebound in their own homes or residential homes, enabling them to self-manage where possible and implementing appropriate treatments and care pathways.

You will be working alongside a multi-skilled team led by Specialist Practitioners in District Nursing as well as liaising regularly with a variety of specialist nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure you are able to provide the best care for your patients.

As an integrated care organisation our community and hospital services are one. We bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience.

The Types Of Patient Care You Will Provide Are

• Patient assessments
• Continence assessment (including catheter care, bowel management, nephrostomy care)
• Ear Irrigation
• Health Promotion
• Leg ulcer management (including doppler assessment and compression therapy)
• Management of Enteral Feeding Tubes
• Medication administration and management- including IV medications
• Palliative care and end of life care (including care of rocket and Pleurx drains)
• Safeguarding (with MDT involvement)
• Wound care (post operative, surgical, pressure ulcer, leg ulcers, burns, diabetic foot ulcer etc)
• Trial without catheter

This role involves rotational shifts between 8:30am-5:00pm and 2:00pm-10:00pm. You will be required to work one weekend on and one weekend off duty.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For more information, please access the following link: https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/

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