Community Staff Nurse - Community Intervention Service

Job overview

Are you an experienced and compassionate nurse looking to develop your career within an innovative community service?

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is excited to offer an opportunity for a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse to join our Community Intervention Team within the South West Staffordshire locality, based at Greyfriars Therapy Centre, Stafford.

This is an exciting role for a motivated and enthusiastic nurse who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in the community. You will play a key role in supporting patients to remain in their own homes and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, whilst delivering safe, effective, and responsive care.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

We would love to hear from you if you can –

• Demonstrate your passion and ability to assess, plan, provide and evaluate evidence based nursing care for patients experiencing a wide range of conditions.
• Support our patients and work with people in an asset-based way that really enables them to live their optimum life, being self-caring and independent with their health needs where possible.
• Work collaboratively, efficiently and creatively with multi professional colleagues and partners with a focus on helping patients to avoid hospital admissions and where they do need a hospital stay facilitating timely and well supported discharge back home.
• Referrals received from professional clinicians, e.g. ambulance services, GP's, Hospital staff.
• Providing IV antibiotics, line care, wound care, IM/SC injections, Peg Feeds, Venepuncture, Cannulation, Palliative care , as well as all general nursing skills.
• Future development to work towards physical assessment qualification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will:

• Be a Registered Adult Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Hold a Degree in Nursing or equivalent qualification.
• Have experience working within community nursing or acute care
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with patients, carers, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Possess clinical assessment, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Be committed to delivering safe, effective, and compassionate patient care.
• Show a commitment to continuous professional development and lifelong learning.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.