Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to develop their career in the specialised area of District nurse. This opportunity is now available in the Chalfont's and Gerrards Cross area to become a Community Nurse within a newly formed team. We are welcoming highly motivated and effective team players, committed to providing a high quality nursing service within the District Nursing field. We are able to offera full skills development and preceptorship programme.
We are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. All levels of experience are welcome in community nursing. Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a change in direction, we would welcome your application for this exciting opportunity to join the community nursing workforce. As a community nurse, you would be supported to develop into an autonomous practitioner; nursing patients with multiple complex health care needs in their own home.
Main duties of the job
Community nursing is a specialised area of practice. As a Community Staff Nurse, you will work within a locality team of District Nurse Team Leaders, Community Staff Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Healthcare Assistants, to meet the needs of the complex patient in the community and avoid admissions to acute settings. This includes medication administration, end of life care, managing the deteriorating patient, complex and simple wound care including negative pressure wound therapy and compression therapy, venepuncture, utilising advanced assessment skills and clinical nursing skills. We nurse people with a variety of conditions in a holistic manner in their own home and in residential care settings. Community nurses work in close partnership with social care and other primary health care professionals such as GP’s, Community Therapies and specialised services such as Tissue Viability, Diabetes and Heart Failure.
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
1. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
2. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
3. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
4. We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
5. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
6. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
7. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
8. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
9. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
10. Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN
Desirable criteria
11. Evidence of further continued professional development
12. Post qualification experience in relevant speciality
13. Hold / be working towards an NMC approved mentoring qualification
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
14. Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to negotiate
15. Ability to manage and prioritise own caseload with supervision
16. Ability to solve problems and use initiative
17. Ability to develop clinical skills
18. Willingness to undergo training (e.g. medications)
19. Basic IT skills
20. Knowledge of the NMC code of conduct
21. Ability to maintain a safe clinical environment conducive to patient care Adaptable to change
22. Ability to work rotating shifts
23. Diplomatic approach with professionalism
24. Flexible and approachable
Desirable criteria
25. Willingness to develop teaching skills
26. Awareness of the NHSE guidance of clinical governance in order to continuously improve quality of care e.g. quality, safety and ward audit standards
27. Knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
28. Ability to understand the role of a registered nurse
29. Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
30. Awareness of current professional nursing issues
31. Demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit/quality
Desirable criteria
32. Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Desirable criteria
33. Able to travel to other sites and off site as necessary
34. Maybe required to work in other departments, if requested to do so
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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