Job overview
Are you looking for the next steps in your nursing career?
Are you passionate about Making a difference to patients’ lives?
If ‘yes’ then there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us!
Here at our District Nursing service no day is ever the same. As a well established Community Service, we care for patients with complex needs providing highly skilled assessments and support within their own home environment.
The role will involve working within a team of experienced Community Nurses and working in partnership with multiple stakeholders and voluntary services to provide the best care to our community and shape the future of healthcare across Milton Keynes.
We are looking for nurses who can think on their feet and thrive on the challenges the working day can bring. You will be joining our team of highly motivated proactive professionals to continue our goal of developing our service beyond the traditional scope of nursing in response to the challenging health care needs that we are facing nationally.
The hours of the District nursing Service are 9am – 5pm, 7 days a week including bank holidays, with a view to move the service hours to 9am – 8pm.
Driving licence and use of a car is essential.
Main duties of the job
·Postholdertodemonstrate professionalandclinicalevidence basedknowledgeacquiredthroughLevel1registration.
·Postholderwillhavedevelopedawiderangeof practicalnursing skillswhicharedemonstratedwithdexterity andaccuracy.
·ToworkwiththeDistrictNursetoprovideskilledpatientcaretopatientsandtheirfamiliesintheirownhomesorothersettingsasappropriate.
1. Forthemajorityofthetimethepostholderwillworkindependentlyandwithout direct supervisionandwillhavetheabilitytoprioritiseachangingworkload.
Working for our organisation
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
In return we can offer:
2. flexible working
3. Buy & Sell Annual Leave
4. An attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits for dependants; ill health retirement benefits; and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay).
5. Employee Assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life
6. Staying Well at Work service for tailored employment related support to staff with severe and long term mental health problems
7. Physio Med: an education zone, advice line and treatment service for staff
8. Staff Wellbeing Zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
9. The Recovery College: offers a range of health and wellbeing courses for staff
10. A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) Network Disabled Employees Network
11. Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network
12. Carers at Work Network
13. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BAME)
14. Salary sacrifice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
15. Provides skilled nursing intervention/care to patients of any age or condition in partnership with the District Nurse and the clinical direction of the General Practitioners within the management structure of the employing
16. Undertakes delegated duties for the caseload holder under the supervision of the District Nurse on duty who is covering the
17. Takes responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the District Nurse including new visits/assessments, workload management and allocation, dealing with referrals,
18. Maintains close liaison with the District Nurse, GP and other members of the primary care team and wider health and social care
19. Applies current Infection Control Policy issues and universal
20. Encourages patients towards self care
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.
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