Job overview
Are you passionate about the helping people in the community? If so, come and join our fantastic teams.
We have an exciting opportunities for a Band 5 Nurses to work at Leatherhead PCN, within Surrey Downs Health & Care. If you are passionate about caring for people and making a difference within your community, we would love to hear from you!
We are looking for nursing staff from all backgrounds including newly qualified, those more experienced, looking for a change, maybe wanting to work locally, excited by the difference of being out within the community with the benefits and challenges that brings.
To work within the team, contributing to team management and the development of innovative practice. To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of holistic care packages.
Please note these roles require post holders to hold a current and valid driving licence enabling them to drive in the UK and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.
We have our own Learning & Development Department that have a range of different courses and development plans that give you the opportunity to grow your career.
Main duties of the job
PCN - Primary Care Network
It is a network formed from GP practice populations working in partnership with others to provide health and care to local communities.
What will PCNs do?
1. Provide ongoing care and support
2. Deploy the most appropriate staff member(s) in a coordinated and timely way to best use community resources
3. Reduce risk of admission for patients
4. Support people in their homes, people in care homes and through in-reach in to hospitals where necessary
5. Work closely with the community hospitals and specialist teams
Each PCN has a community focused trimuvirate (group of three) of Lead GP / Community; Lead Clinician and Operational Manager. Specialist services and community hospitals work closely with the PCNs to ensure a whole system approach to working across Surrey Downs.
Working for our organisation
Surrey Downs Health and Care (SDHC) deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centric care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
6. The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
7. CSH Surrey
8. Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
9. Surrey Council County
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Work as part of the team undertaking lead responsibilities as negotiated and agreed with District Nurse
• Treat all patients as individuals, respecting their privacy and dignity at all times
• Assess individual care needs, implement and evaluate holistic programmes of care
• Involving, supporting, informing and educating family/carers
• Take every opportunity to promote health and wellbeing of the patient
• Develop effective communication and liaison systems
• Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records according to SDHC procedures
• Facilitate/undertake training and professional updating for team and students
• Act as an assessor and mentor to qualified and unqualified staff
• Maintain, develop and monitor standards of evidence based nursing care
• Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines
• Support/mentor team members and participate in clinical supervision activities
• Work without direct supervision and to maintain close liaison with the senior team member, deputising as required
• Be responsible and maintain timely patient care
• Be responsible for maintain data entry and other record keeping
• To work in co-operation and partnership with all other professionals and agencies involved in the care of the patient
• Be aware of and act upon when necessary, procedures that are in place to protect vulnerable individuals
• Participate in the SDHC Clinical Governance Strategy
• Participate in the SDHC Risk Management Strategy
• Undertake any such other duties which may be required from time to time as are consistent with the post
• Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines
• Staff are employed to work within SDHC localities and may be reasonably requested to move base temporarily or on a more permanent basis, as requested by service needs
Please see attached our Band 5 Job Description & Person Specifications for further details about this role
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
10. Registered Adult Nurse with NMC
11. Valid Driving Licence (to drive within UK)
Experience
Desirable criteria
12. Relevant post registration experience
13. Community experience
Other
Essential criteria
14. Access to a vehicle for work purposes
Skills
Essential criteria
15. Ability to assess, deliver and evaluate quality care
16. Effective communicator
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
NameGeorge HilditchJob titleOperational ManagerEmail addressTelephone number07917233266