Community Staff Nurse - Ledbury

Job overview

Ledbury District Nursing Team

Have you always wondered what community nursing entails? Would you like a new challenge or have you had experience on the community and wish to pursue it as a career? If so, then this is an opportunity for you! The Ledbury District Nursing team are recruiting for a Band 5 Community Nurse to join our dedicated and supportive team. As a Community Nurse you will become highly skilled in many different areas using many extended clinical skills and where no two days are the same.

The Ledbury District Nursing team support patients registered within the East Primary Care Network. We have formed excellent working relationships with our GP colleagues and the wider multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

Most of our work is with housebound patients but, we also run a District Nurse Clinic for non-housebound patients who need the very specific skills of a District Nurse to support their treatment.

The focus of District Nursing is to support patients towards self-management, enabling them to continue to live as full and productive a life as possible, through education, equipment and or lifestyle changes.  We also have the privilege of supporting people and their families at the end of their lives, working in close liaison with the Hospice Teams and Specialist Palliative Care Nurses.

As community teams we enjoy working with many other health and social care professionals, Care Homes and Care Agencies.  All staff are expected to record their work electronically on EMIS, our electronic patient record system which links into the GP services to allow a seamless service provision.  Training and on-going support will be given to support staff with EMIS and other electronic systems they will need to use.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.