Bank Nurse for Herts Community Nursing | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £15.67 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Various, WD25 9XX |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6224187/824-BANK-00883677 |
Summary
Bank Nurse for Watford Community Nursing
Are you a specialist community nurse or a registered nurse with community experience?
Are you keen to use your clinical skills in a rewarding community-based role but unable to commit to a permanent position right now?
This is an exciting time to join our bank, with a new friendly and supportive team. We can offer you regular yet flexible working patterns, that allow you to make a real difference to services and patients and become an integral part of a cohesive team.
Essential criteria for this post
Applicants should either be on the SCPHN register or a registered nurse able to demonstrate at least 1 year of previous experience of community-based nursing work with skills covering wound care, catheters and medication administration.
A full UK driving licence and access to a car.
Why join?
• Earn more per hour -bank rates are higher than agency and include holiday pay. We also cover your expenses and provide free uniforms
• See the best shifts first –bank staff get priority over all agency workers
• Book the shifts you want on your phone –build your own rota on our bank booking system
• Get 24x7 support from our friendly Staff Bank team –a local teamdedicated to helping you
Job Purpose
• To provide skilled nursing care working under the supervision of the Community Nurse Team Lead and Deputy Team Lead to patients in a variety of community settings.
The post holder will undertake community nursing duties involving delivery of nursing services and holistic assessments of patients health needs using a person centred approach. This includes providing quality and seamless nursing care to housebound patients and being proactive in coordinating their care needs as appropriate, avoiding unnecessary admission to hospital or long term care institutions. In addition, the post holder will be involved in facilitating self- care for patients with long term conditions, health promotion and innovative activities and projects that enhance patient service delivery.
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
CLINICAL
• To give skilled nursing care, based on principles of best practice and clinical evidence. This includes:
Chronic disease management, end of life care, continence promotion and wound management. Specific skills include phlebotomy, administration of medication via syringe drivers and intravenous therapy, PEG management, urinary catheterisation and tracheostomy suctioning.
Act as a Named Nurse with the support and supervision of the DN Team Lead. To take continued responsibility for the holistic health needs assessment including care planning, evaluation and appropriate implementation of health care and ensuring continuity of care following referral from acute care, rehabilitation units, GPs and other agencies.
Undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical, psychological and social care needs of patients using the Single Assessment Process and including the needs of carers. To provide individualised and person centred care plans that provide monitoring and promotion of self-care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions
Act as the patient’s advocate and to facilitate the patient’s own choices with regard to nursing care, promoting independence and self-care, as appropriate.
To identify and record new problems and other relevant information reporting back to the DN Team Lead as appropriate.
Maintain accurate, comprehensive and contemporaneous records in accordance with Trust and NMC guidelines.
• Liaise with, and where appropriate initiate referrals, to ensure adequate care and support to patients and carers.
• To provide information and support to patients, relatives and other carers that promotes and optimises positive health.
• Undertake health promotion and disease prevention activities such as flu immunisation, advice on stopping smoking, falls prevention, dietary advice and foot health.
• To have knowledge of, and be able to effectively use local services and resources to promote patient care. For example specialist services.
This advert closes on Wednesday 22 May 2024