Community Staff Nurse - Worksop and Villages | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum (pro rata for part time) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2024 |
| Location: | 31-33 Retford Road, S80 2PU |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6199240/186-412-24-GH |
Summary
We are very proud of our community nursing service and the difference it makes to people requiring nursing care in their own home. With an increasing complexity of patients in our community, our team provide seamless holistic nursing care to ensure patients receive the right care.
We are looking for individuals who can be part of our fast-moving, innovative and ambitious teams, dedicated to supporting our communities to manage their own health both at home and in our dedicated clinics.
You will be responsible for providing skilled nursing care to patients across the locality and work flexibly with multi disciplinary teams across our service to support our patients journey.
You will need to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable. You’ll need to be organised and confident and able to cope with changing environments as you’ll be working independently in patients homes, support is always available.
Our community teams of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals deliver care to people in Worksop and surrounding villages who present with significant physical health care needs in various settings including clinic based, community inpatient, hospices to care in the patient’s own home, including care homes, enabling them to be independent, self-caring and live their optimum lives, reducing hospital admissions.
Services range from community nursing, including specialist practitioners, to public health and health promotion such as school nursing and health visiting, with many specialist community services designed to support care pathways such as Physiotherapy, OT, Speech and Language, Dietetics and Podiatry.
Supporting the efficient running of these services are administrative and managerial roles. All roles, at all levels, are vital in transforming community health services, ensuring high quality care is provided both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients - together we all make a difference.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Community Staff Nurse
Worksop and Villages Community Nursing Team
Band 5, Full time / Part time. Substantive
We are seeking suitably skilled nurses to join our physical healthcare services to the resident adult population of Worksop and surrounding villages.
Providing appropriate community nursing care following a robust holistic assessment which enables patients to be cared for in their own homes and clinic settings. You will facilitate the prevention of unnecessary hospital admission/re-admission by reducing the effects of ill health and disability and maximising the individual’s potential for independence.
You will be responsible for providing skilled nursing care to the residents of Worksop and surrounding villages and will work flexibly in the community to support our evolving and developing services, supporting the team to deliver high quality integrated care. You will need to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable. Working hours will be flexible between the hours 8am to 6pm over seven days.
Community experience is preferred but those with appropriate transferable skills will be considered, as will students having undertaken a community management placement.
The position requires you to work independently, but also be a team player.
A robust induction and competency based development package will be provided. Newly qualified stafff will be offered a preceptorship programme.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Benefits of a community nursing career
• A robust and tailored competency-based development package which will support you with a vast array of newly acquired nursing skills.
• Newly qualified staff will receive a tailored preceptorship programme
• Access to clinical and managerial supervision from a vast experience base.
• Free parking on all health care sites
• Opportunity to undertake District Nurse degree secondment Would you like to ‘Try before you buy’? Come and see for yourselves how fantastic it is…. Contact us now to arrange a day to shadow and spend time in one of our teams. Alternatively if you think this role is what you’ve been looking for, don’t hesitate….apply now, we can’t wait to meet you.
• You will be part of a fantastic team who put patient care at the centre of everything they do. Our service covers the hours of 8am to 6pm over seven days, 365 days a year. Flexible working opportunities are available.
This advert closes on Saturday 25 May 2024
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.