Senior Community Nurse

Job summary

Main duties of the job

To work as part of an integrated health and social care team providing a crisis intervention and early supported discharge service for patients across the City of Southampton registered with a Southampton GP practice.

To have day-to-day responsibility for a designated caseload of clients requiring nursing/ rehabilitation/care management intervention and to organise and prioritise the required programmes of treatment (cases will be reviewed periodically by a more senior member of staff)

Work within the community and in University Hospital Southampton ED as a lone practitioner managing situations of risk with telephone support. Seek support and advice with cases from more experienced colleagues when faced with matters outside sphere of responsibility, knowledge, or skills.

Obtain informed consent from client to treatment and work within agreed guidelines for clients unable to give informed consent. Obtain consent to the sharing of information and document all consent issues in accordance with relevant Trust and Local Authority procedures.

Job responsibilities

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence