Bank Community District Nurse - SD H&C

Job overview

The StaffBank for Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust are seeking enthusiastic Community Nurses to join our pool of Staff Bank workers. This role is with Surrey Downs Health and Care (SDHC) which delivers care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centred care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:

• The three GP federations representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey County Council

Shifts are available in the following Primary Care Networks (PCN)

. Dorking

. ICP (Epsom & Ewell Area)

. Cobham and Oxshott

. Leatherhead

Please let us know which area/area's you would be interested in covering.

If you would like to find out more about our services, please do visit our website - https://surreydownshealthandcare.nhs.uk/

If you would like to know more about the roles and shift availability, please contact our HR team – [email protected]

Main duties of the job

Role Summary

To work as part of the community nursing team, providing care to patients in their own home or care home setting. To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of holistic care packages. The skills that may be undertaken as part of the role are listed below:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Surrey Downs Health and Care (SDHC) deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.

It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.

In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.

Principle Duties to include:

• Work as part of the team undertaking lead responsibilities as negotiated and agreed with District Nurse
• Treat all patients as individuals, respecting their privacy and dignity at all times
• Assess individual care needs, implement and evaluate holistic programmes of care
• Involving, supporting, informing and educating family/carers
• Take every opportunity to promote health and wellbeing of the patient
• Develop effective communication and liaison systems
• Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records according to SDHC procedures
• Facilitate/undertake training and professional updating for team and students
• Act as an assessor and mentor to qualified and unqualified staff
• Maintain, develop and monitor standards of evidence based nursing care
• Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines
• Support/mentor team members and participate in clinical supervision activities
• Work without direct supervision and to maintain close liaison with the senior team member, deputising as required
• Be responsible and maintain timely patient care
• Be responsible for maintain data entry and other record keeping
• To work in co-operation and partnership with all other professionals and agencies involved in the care of the patient
• Be aware of and act upon when necessary, procedures that are in place to protect vulnerable individuals
• Participate in the SDHC Clinical Governance Strategy
• Participate in the SDHC Risk Management Strategy
• Undertake any such other duties which may be required from time to time as are consistent with the post
• Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines
• Staff are employed to work within SDHC localities and may be reasonably requested to move base temporarily or on a more permanent basis, as requested by service needs