Community Staff Nurse

Job overview

We are seeking committed and enthusiastic NMC-registered or newly qualified Band 5 nurses with community experience. The applicants will need to demonstrate excellent clinical and communication skills and demonstrate the ability to manage a patient caseload.

The community setting is an exciting, varied and complex environment in which to be a nurse, providing the fulfilling experience of caring for patients in their own homes whilst taking responsibility for the planning and implementation of holistic, patient-centred care.

This position is with the Severn Health Team which is based in Stonehouse. We are a family-friendly organisation. We currently work on a rolling rota for weekends, usually 1 in 4, supporting a good work/life balance.

We welcome applications from newly qualified nurses.

Main duties of the job

Community nursing is a varied role that requires autonomous working within a variety of settings including, but not limited to, patients’ homes and Care Homes. The main duties are:

• To Practice as a member of the community nursing team, working within the Integrated Community Teams (ICTs).
• To liaise with GPs, other ICTs and statutory and voluntary agencies.
• To provide advice, information and education to patients and carers with the aim of enabling patients to enjoy maximum possible independence, health and well-being.
• To creatively manage the holistic and clinical needs of patients with acute, sub-acute and long-term conditions.
• To enable patients living long-term physical health challenges to live well within their communities, with a focus on not only their physical health needs but also their wider holistic needs, e.g. mental health, learning disabilities, psychological needs, social needs and spiritual needs.
• To excel in this role, you will require excellent communication skills, the courage to make clinical decisions and a willingness to develop your potential

You will need current NMC registration (adult, physical health), post-registration experience is helpful but not essential.

Computer literacy will be an advantage.

A full UK driving licence is required to meet the needs of this community role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Assess patient and carers needs through strength based assessment,
• Develop individual care plans in partnership with patients and carers. This will include information, advice, sign-posting and education.
• Regularly evaluate care plans to ensure they are up to date and appropriate, reporting clinical changes or areas of concern to the appropriate member of the team.
• Provide skilled nursing care interventions, support and advice to colleagues, patients and carers.
• Work to reduce unwarranted variation in clinical practice, providing evidence based interventions which effectively enable people.
• Discuss issues relating to care and support of individual patients with other disciplines and agencies, and refer to those who can better meet their needs.
• Collaborate with colleagues in the Integrated Community Teams and other aligned services to enable people within their communities, maximising their potential and promoting their independence.
• Administer and monitor medications consistent with policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the prioritisation of workload, taking responsibility for a delegated caseload of patients.
• Assist in providing consistently high standards of evidence based care that meets the patient’s requirements and satisfaction.
• Maintain accurate patient documentation on the electronic clinical recording system.
• Respond appropriately to feedback from patients and carers about the service, using the open approach of the organisation and within Duty of Candour expectations.
• When suitably experienced, to act as a Named Nurse, providing care oversight for a defined cohort of patients managed in the ICT Community Nursing caseloads.
• When suitably experienced, to act as a clinical triage nurse within the centralised Community Nursing referral centres, providing clinical review of patients and engaging with health and care professionals to enable effective patient flow and referral management.
• We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module “Preceptorship for Healthcare”.

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.