Community Band 5 Staff Nurse, Rapid Response

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for two community staff nurses to join our rapid response nursing team - a 24 hours, 7 days a week team, where we offer nursing interventions to patients living in their own homes. We work in an integrated way with health and care providers to ensure that care is joined up and that whenever we can, we strive to care for acutely unwell  patients at home, helping them to maintain independence and ensuring that high quality care is delivered in an efficient and holistic manner.

We are working hard to continually improve our outcomes for patients and our experience for staff in delivering care.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated nurse to join our team. This post would be suitable if you are newly qualified or have years of experience.

If you are interested in joining our innovative workforce, then choose East Staffs for the next chapter in your career.

Main duties of the job

We would love to hear from you if you can –

• Demonstrate your passion and ability to assess, plan, provide and evaluate evidence based nursing care for patients experiencing a wide range of conditions.
• Support our patients and work with people in an asset-based way that really enables them to live their optimum life, being self-caring and independent with their health needs where possible.
• Work collaboratively, efficiently and creatively with multi professional colleagues and partners with a focus on helping patients to avoid hospital admissions and where they do need a hospital stay facilitating timely and well supported discharge back home.
• Referrals received from professional clinicians, e.g. ambulance services, GP's, Hospital staff.
• Providing IV antibiotics, line care,  wound care, IM/SC injections,  Peg Feeds, Venepuncture, Cannulation, Palliative care , as well as all general nursing skills.
• Future development to work towards physical assessment qualification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Why choose East Staffordshire as a place to work?

Because we are an innovative, integrated Community service covering the East Staffordshire area including the Burton Town area, Uttoxeter and the surrounding Villages. We work closely across the Nursing teams, AHP’s including Podiatry, Physio, Falls Team, Stroke and Rehab team including our out of hours service, to ensure that our patients are at the centre of the care provided. We collaboratively deliver our care across all the professions, recognising the importance for patient centred approach, working together across all the nursing and therapy teams

We pride ourselves on our strong leadership, innovation, prevention and implementation of the care within the living model in all our patient care. We ensure that all of MPFT’s values and behaviours are entwined and embedded within our staff, teams and our patient centred care. We support the development and learning of all staff, having great links with our local universities, while also priding ourselves on growing our own staff and the leaders of the future

For further details of the role, please take a look at the job description and person specification attached.