Senior Community Staff Nurse

Job overview

The post holder will lead a team of nurses and support staff with the responsibility of managing the care for a defined caseload.

Community Nurses work as part of a team delivering high quality evidence-based nursing care to clients within their own home, residential homes and clinical environments. As part of a District Nursing team, you will have a role placing emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation as well as curative and palliative care.

The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students, and other health care professionals.

• Week days including one weekend in 4
• 5 Years Community Experience
• For those who are aspiring to join the DN Course

Main duties of the job

• To assess, plan, implement and provide regular evaluation of health care needs in conjunction with patients, their carers, and other appropriate members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Assist in the prioritisation, organisation and appropriate delegation of the responsibilities and workloads within the team will be required to ensure efficient and effective service provision
• To support the Team lead in managing the caseload of patients within the practice population.
• To be responsible for keeping up to date with current issues  and events in Primary Health Care.
• To actively participate and influence the developments of Community nursing services.
• To provide support and health education programmes for patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.
• To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the trust as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.
• To work alongside other members of the multidisciplinary team e.g., attend meetings of Primary Health Care Team.
• To ensure own mandatory training and team members mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Trust policies.
• Ability to use Information Technology including Word, email and the internet and RIO.
• Participation in complaint investigations, when requested.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be a role model to team members ensuring they are motivated and all their practices are clinically effective and that plans of care are carried out to the agreed standard.
• To identify, assess and signpost patients with complex long term conditions and nursing needs within the allocated caseload, working with GPs and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
• Administer monitor and review medications according to the Medicines Management policy in conjunction with the General Practitioner, patient/relatives, and multidisciplinary team.
• Clinical responsibilities will include the provision of evidenced based nursing care, using holistic assessment, care planning, and implementation and by defining, monitoring outcomes of care and service provision. This will include complex packages of acre and complex clinical decision making where appropriate.
• To undertake comprehensive holistic nursing assessment and documentation of physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patient/client and plan care accordingly.