Unplanned Care - Senior Staff Nurse (Band-6)
Are you a passionate, and caring nurse with a least two years' experience in community looking to progress and develop your clinical and leadership skills in a dynamic community nursing team?
If so, then we would like to meet you.
A vacancy has arisen within the Unplanned Care Team, which has an innovative approach to nursing care. It involves quick responses to patients in their home to assess, plan, manage and evaluate the presenting issue, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and help to facilitate early hospital discharges. You will support the clinical band-7 with the daily leadership and management of the team and liaise with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a highly motivated applicant who is interested in meeting the challenge of working in the community with patients in their home setting. As part of the Unplanned care team, you will be working with a variety of disciplines within the multidisciplinary team to achieve the best outcomes for patients. You'll be working on a rotational basis as part of a seven-day service covering 24-hours-a-day with the support of agile technology to help you deliver timely, high-quality care.
The successful candidate will have excellent clinical skills, demonstrate leadership qualities, implement high standards of patient care, and ensure a positive patient experience.
Unplanned services are committed to supporting your continued professional development and we will support you in your ongoing career aspirations.
If this is you, we'd love to hear from you.
About us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value differenceWe Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needsWe Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* NMC current registration
* RGN / RN professional qualifications
Desirable
* Teaching / Assessor in clinical practice
* V100/V300 prescribing for nursing or equivalent.
* Postgraduate qualification
Special kowledge / Expereince / Competencies
Essential
* Ability to delegate work
* Demonstrates effective management and development of staff
* Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the District Nursing service.
* Ability to use Microsoft Office and Outlook
Desirable
* Previous experience of community health care (District Nursing)
* Understanding and /or experience of managing patients with long-term conditions
* Knowledge of diabetes management
* Knowledge of wound care and care and leg ulcer management
* Knowledge of SystmOne
Employer details
Employer name
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Unplanned Care - Daisy Hill
Lynfield Mount
Bradford
BD9 6DP
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