Community Staff Nurse - Out of Hours

Job overview

You will be responsible for delivering immediate and continuing nursing care to patients within their own homes. You will prioritise, assess, plan, evaluate and deliver all relevant aspects of nursing care to an agreed and expected high standard.

You will work as a key member of the team and contribute to the processes that promote patient safety and quality of care in line with clinical governance frameworks.

Gain competence in clinical skills to enable delivery of quality patient care within the service.

Take an active role in contributing to developing nursing practice.

Maintain effective communication internally and externally to the organisation.

You will be expected to participate fully in their personal development and review process in order to achieve the knowledge and skills identified for this post.

Main duties of the job

To take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based care for patients.

To care for palliative care patients and there families in their own homes.

To provide ongoing nursing care and support to patients and carers, promoting the role of the nurse and clinical excellence.

To identify patients whose conditions become unstable and liaise with doctors and acute services appropriately.

To be responsible for  documentation in line with current practice and policies.

To ensure that patients can make an informed choice about their current and future care needs. Ensure that care is patient centred, and confidentiality is maintained in line with Trust policy.

To prioritise own workload and work autonomously when necessary.

To provide support, guidance, and supervision to junior staff.

To assess the level of ongoing nursing needs for people who may need long term care.

To liaise with the patients GP to provide sufficient information for ongoing primary care to be provided safely and efficiently.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as a Registered Nurse in the UK.

Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website:  https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/

We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.