Specialist Community Nurse

Job overview

This is an excellent opportunity to join our team as a UCR and Intermediate Care Specialist Nurse based in Scarborough, covering the Scarborough and Ryedale area, on the beautiful North East coast and surrounding area.

We are looking for an experienced registered Nurse, to work with our urgent community response, intermediate care teams providing clinical input in order to facilitate timely discharge from an acute hospital stay or to remain safely at home when facing an unexpected health crisis.

The role includes integrated MDT working targeted at people living with frailty, multi-morbidity and/or complex needs to help them stay independent and healthy for as long as possible. To succeed in this role you will need to be passionate about community healthcare provision, able to tackle key priorities with enthusiasm & have the tenacity to deliver in an ever changing environment.

We are committed to our trust values of caring, learning & growing and offer a variety of learning opportunities with regular supervision, professional development groups and in-service training programmes. As a senior Nurse you will have management, coordination and supervision responsibilities for junior staff & students.

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality and timely clinical triage for referrals coming into the service, providing advice and guidance to referrers and liaising with internal teams and partner organisations to support patient care delivery
• To be an integral part of an MDT consisting of Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists and Support workers delivering patient centred care to maximise independence, confidence and ability.
• To demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice for patients in need of UCR or Intermediate Care support
• Support patients with individualised goal setting, education and care plans to work towards fulfilling their potential in a targeted and realistic way via delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, and externally with other agencies.
• To provide support/advice regarding service development and the delivery of care, in partnership with service users, carers, staff, managers and other agencies.
• To provide line management, supervision, support, guidance and training to peers, Community Support Practitioners and students.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details and job description please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.