Community Staff Nurse

Job overview

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our supportive and friendly Community Nursing team based in Norton Canes as a Band 5 NMC Registered Nurse.

We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about being part of a team delivering the highest standards of palliative & end of life care to patients in their own homes and with a strong interest in complex, specialist wound & pelvic health care.

Within the community we are seeing more complex and acute patients than ever before, with increasingly specialist treatment and care being provided by highly skilled staff. Working within our Community Nursing Team you will support, assess, and treat patients with a variety of health needs, delivering high quality, evidence based practice. You will holistically support patients to manage their long term conditions and care needs within the community and support patients with acute care needs to receive treatment (such as IV antibiotics) without an avoidable hospital admission.

We offer bespoke training, support and personalised ongoing professional development into a variety of career pathways.

You will be required to travel independently across a large geographical area.

Main duties of the job

As band 5 Community Nurse, you will have a commitment to providing holistic care to patients in their own homes, be able to work on you own initiative and work well within a team.

As part of this role, you will be expected to:

• Assess new service user referrals and care/support needs.
• Provide care directly to patients on the caseload with a range of nursing needs (including palliative care, complex wound care, pelvic health, medication administration).
• Promote independence and support patient centred care planning.
• Work autonomously, in line with your scope of practice, competence and policies. Handover patient information to the wider team, document patient information effectively.
• Escalation of patients’ needs as appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents.