Community Staff Nurse

Job overview

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Nurse to join our Urgent Care Service based within West Kent.

Our Urgent Care Services provide a two-hour response to patients in crisis at home. Our aim is to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals.

We also provide unscheduled care out-of-hours for patients who may be at the end of life, or experiencing an urgent need for healthcare. This may include treating acutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges.

The service convers 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 Nurse with our Urgent Care Service your role will involve:

• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of holistic care
• The development of integrated care plans in partnership with the patient
• To order equipment and send onward referrals as necessary
• To support in the supervision and development of all junior staff including Health Care Assistants and Students
• To actively work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide high quality care to patients
• To undertake a range of competent clinical interventions and identify any deterioration in patients’ condition, taking appropriate action.
• Manage a caseload of patients on a daily basis consisting of patients with complex needs associated within a specific speciality.
• To support in duty role and complete triages

Additional Working Pattern: long days, weekend and night shifts

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.