Main area Community Nursing Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Core service Hours 0800-1800hrs including weekend working)
Job ref 270-TH062-AD
Site: Campbell House / Manfield Court Town Northampton
Salary £29,970 - £36,483 pa pro rata – yearly
Job overview
Community Nurses make a difference everyday to the lives of the people they visit at home. We are proud of our Community Nurses who provide increasingly complex care for patients and support for family members to encourage patients to receive the care they need in their own home.
We are looking for Newly Qualified and Registered Nurses with a passion for high quality nursing care and also experience in either acute medicine, Emergency Care or community nursing. The post holder will provide acute nursing assessment & interventions in patients’ own homes and will ensure that patients are referred onwards as appropriate to community services once their care episode is complete.
Rewards and Benefits
* Excellent learning and development to support you and develop your Nursing Career.
* Flexible working opportunities.
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to training and developing its staff not only with clinical skills but also in leadership and managerial skills.
You'll also have access to our generous pension scheme and health service discounts, as well as generous annual leave plus bank holidays.
Main duties of the job
Working life
As a Community nurse, you'll
* Assess the healthcare needs of patients and families.
* Monitor the quality of care they're receiving.
* Be professionally accountable for the delivery of care.
* Utilise technology to enable you to update records as you go.
Your patients could be any age, but they'll often be elderly, while others may have been recently discharged from hospital, be terminally ill or have physical disabilities.
The service aims to provide an excellent standard of care that supports patients to remain in their home environment. In Northamptonshire you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in order to support the service and focus on delivering quality outcomes and improving the patient experience. You'll play a vital role in keeping hospital admissions and re-admissions to a minimum and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible.
Must have skills
* Adaptable and resourceful.
* Well organised, confident and able to cope in diverse situations to deliver patient care.
* Leadership and management skills are also important.
* Communication skills, problem solving and good judgement are crucial.
* Driving, access to own vehicle and a level of physical fitness are required for the role.
You will be part of a caring team and be able to work flexibly with minimum supervision, with the ability to prioritise work based on the patient need.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Person specification
NMC registered
* NMC registered nurse or Student Nurse working towards qualification.
* Registered Nurse with post registration experience within a community setting.
Community Nursing Experience
* Experience in Community Nursing setting.
* Experience in Venepuncture.
* Palliative Care.
* Experience using SystemOne or equivalent Patient electronic records systems.
* UK car driver and owner.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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