Community Staff Nurse

The post holder will undertake community nursing duties involving delivery of nursing services and holistic assessments of patient’s health needs using a person-centred approach.  This includes providing quality and seamless nursing care to housebound patients and being proactive in co-ordinating their care needs as appropriate, avoiding unnecessary admission to hospital or long-term care institutions. In addition, the post holder will be involved in facilitating self- care for patients with long term conditions, health promotion and innovative activities and projects that enhance patient service delivery.

To provide skilled nursing care working under the supervision of the Community Nurse Team Lead and Deputy Team Lead to patients in a variety of community settings. We believe community nursing gives dedicated healthcare professionals the opportunity to spend more time with the patients you care for in their own environment and work collaboratively with other clinicians to provide more coordinated care.

·       To give skilled nursing care, based on principles of best practice and clinical evidence. This includes:

·       Chronic disease management, end of life care, continence promotion and wound management. Specific skills include phlebotomy, administration of medication via syringe drivers and intravenous therapy, PEG management, urinary catheterisation, and tracheostomy suctioning.

·       Act as a Named Nurse with the support and supervision of the DN Team Lead. To take continued responsibility for the holistic health needs assessment including care planning, evaluation and appropriate implementation of health care and ensuring continuity of care following referral from acute care, rehabilitation units, GPs and other agencies.

·       Undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical, psychological and social care needs of patients using the Single Assessment Process and including the needs of carers. To provide individualised and person-centred care plans that provide monitoring and promotion of self-care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.

Please refer to Job description and person specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.