Community Nurse

Job overview

Forest Neighbourhood Team is a friendly, supportive, and hardworking team who are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join us. The team operates from 7:30am 6:30pm, Monday to Sunday including bank holidays. Shift patterns include 07:30-15:30, 08:30-16:30 and 10:30-18:30 on a rota basis. Flexible working opportunities such as compressed hours are available.

We are looking to recruit community nurses on a full-time or part time basis, who are innovative and keen to join the team in supporting us to deliver high quality care, and to continue our development of integrated care in the community. The role is varied and rewarding.

We are looking for passionate nurses who are excited by change and are keen to help shape a new way of delivering nursing care in the community. We are a team of health care professionals who are focused on compassionate care. We work closely with our GPs and work hard at developing relationships with other primary care services, drawing on the skills of our MDT colleagues to manage complex patients and ensure our services are responsive and patient centred.

Main duties of the job

The ability to work flexibly on a rota basisAn enthusiastic, motivated, and innovative thinker to become part of a primary care facing communityThe ability to work autonomously and manage your own caseload and work within a multi-disciplinary teamThe ability to problem-solve and manage time effectivelyThe ability to communicate effectively with others at all levels Experience of working in a fast paced and varied environmentThe ability to travel to deliver care services

Your typical working day will include home visits for adults over 18 years needing a range of nursing interventions. These include caring for people reaching the end of their life, managing their pain relief and other symptoms in a sensitive and compassionate manner, all types of wound care- post operative wounds, leg ulcers, pressure ulcers and complex dressing regimes - you will become expert in tissue viability. Other skills will be in IV therapy and other injectable drug administration and holistic assessment of a persons needs, taking in to account their environment and social circumstances.

Back at your base, you will be involved in team meetings, goal/care planning and evaluation and handover meetings. As part of the role, you will support pre-registration students in a supervisor and / or assessor capacity. You will also be required to support band 4s and HCAs. Your input is a valuable part of the teams work.

Job responsibilities

Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.

Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.

Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.

Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings to enable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This will be achieved through a combination of hands on clinical skills and knowledge to treat, educate and support patients on a designated caseload and by working with patients and their carers to assess, plan and implement appropriate packages of care.

Take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse when required.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.

Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.

Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.

Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings to enable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This will be achieved through a combination of hands on clinical skills and knowledge to treat, educate and support patients on a designated caseload and by working with patients and their carers to assess, plan and implement appropriate packages of care.

Take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse when required.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.