BANK Community Staff Nurse

Job overview

BANK Community Staff Nurse -  Band 6 To set and maintain standards of care and deploy, co-ordinate and supervise the nursing team and learners as required. To provide leadership and management to a team of community nurses and other staff covering a specified locality. To be responsible for the team’s assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised nursing care to patients living in the community. The service is provided seven days per week 8am-10pm. To be responsible for the team’s maintenance of patient and other records. To participate in the long term management of patients within the locality. To have continued responsibility for a defined caseload.

Main duties of the job

• To demonstrate discretion and respect when communicating with patients, colleagues and other agencies.
• To use tact and diplomacy to provide and communicate complex, sensitive information where motivational negotiating empathetic and reassurance skills are needed, where barriers exist to understanding, maintaining confidentiality within Trust Policies.
• To communicate effectively with all members of Primary Health Care teams. Develop networks for effective communication between health, statutory and voluntary services including patient forums.
• To communicate and work together with other teams within Adult Community
• Services, and other providers, to ensure optimum patient centred care. Use various methods of communication including oral, written, electronic or other verbal or nonverbal methods.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.