Senior Community Nurse

Job summary

Our service operates between 8am and 8pm, seven days a week, 365 days a year, giving you the opportunity to work flexibly and be part of a team that is always there for our community when they need us most.

Working in the community means you'll see the direct impact of your care every day. You'll go home knowing you've made a meaningful difference to the lives of local people.

If you're committed to delivering outstanding patient care and thrive in a fast paced, ever evolving environment, we'd love to talk. Get in touch to explore the role further or arrange a visit -- we're excited to welcome the right person into our team.

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

Main duties of the job

Act at all times with compassion and be committed to delivering high quality Care.

Monitor the quality of care planning, implementation and evaluation to ensure optimum quality is maintained.

Ensure that medicines in your area are handled and administered according to professional and organisational guidelines to ensure safety and efficacy.

Inform the integrated senior clinical lead (Band 7) of any concerns with patients, relatives, visitors or staff that may compromise patient care.

Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients' needs are met.

Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and carers so that information is shared in order to meet patients' needs.

Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained.

Ensure that discharge and transfer planning for patients is done in a proactive and interdisciplinary manner.

Practice, role model and promote safe and effective skills in all aspects of clinical practice.

Practice, role model and promote safe and effective recording in line with trust policies and professional standards.

Demonstrate, care, compassion, competence, effective communication, courage and commitment with all patients and carers.

Ensure that patients with palliative care needs (and their families) have those needs met.

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