We are a well-established, supportive and friendly Community Nursing team excited to be offering a great opportunity in Ambulatory and Wound Care Clinics. We have a vacancy available within our Stafford locality clinics.
You will have a commitment to providing holistic care to patients in a clinic setting, Be able to work on your own initiative and work well within a team. Key clinical skills include complex tissue viability issues, wound care, bladder and bowel management, compression therapy as well as medication administration.
Within the community we are seeing more complex and acute patients than ever before, with increasingly specialist treatment and care being provided by highly skilled staff. Working within our Community Nursing Ambulatory Team you will support, assess, and treat patients with a variety of health needs, delivering high quality, evidence based practice.
Due to the nature of community working, the ability to travel across the patch to alternative clinics is essential.
Working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and colleagues to:
Promote independence and support patient centred care planning.
Provide care directly to patients on the caseload with a range of nursing needs (including palliative care, complex wound care, pelvic health, medication administration).
Work autonomously, in line with your scope of practice, competence and policies.
Handover patient information to the wider team, document patient information effectively.
Escalation of patients needs as appropriate.
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
Supporting your career development and progression
Excellent NHS Pension scheme
Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Options for flexible working
Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rate s
Free flu vaccinations every year
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see attached documents.