Rapid Response Community Sister/Charge Nurse
| Posting date: | 11 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 pa, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2025 |
| Location: | Buxton, SK17 6TE |
| Company: | DCHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7109443/842-CCS-5646-25 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust.
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Rapid Response Community Sister/Charge Nurse, who has experience of community nursing to join our rapid response CNT in the High Peak/Derbyshire Dales.
The Service is to provide acute (short-term) care in patients' own homes and Residential Care Home settings. The team promotes a self-management approach to patients with their health conditions.
A key priority is for rapid nursing staff to educate patients on their health needs and to provide a self management approach to patients with their condition.
The service provides cover 7 days per week, 08:00–18:30 and incorporates a rapid response service to support patients with urgent nursing care needs.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills of specialist nursing assessment and treatment in a community setting, alongside developing additional generic skills to provide a comprehensive assessment to a variety of complex patients.
You will be well supported in the role by a skilled multi-disciplinary team and have the opportunity to participate within an in-service training programme.
Requirement to travel across High Peak and Derbyshire Dales and flexibility are essential for this post.
Responsible for all aspects of band 6 role including:
Triaging, assessing patient priority and allocating visits in accordance with priority and ensuring we meet Urgent Community Response times;
Supporting new starters/junior staff/ student nurses with achieving clinical competencies/confidence.
Deliver high quality clinical care where required and providing support with complex patient management and co-ordination of care
Support with quality always, audits and data analysis.
Staff management including; probationary meetings, 1-1s, attending meetings, supporting service delivery and implementing change.
There has never been a more exciting time to join one of the largest specialist community NHS providers in the country – one that is also among the very best NHS employers, as voted by its own staff.
Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.
Please review the Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
Provide complex nursing care to individuals making use of current evidence to inform the delivery and promote the development of clinically effective care
Co-ordinate the assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of care programmes which reflect the individual needs of patients and carers which meet best practice using advocated tools/systems as required
Responsible for the ordering of patient’s equipment
Have an awareness of resource management and budgetary position for your service
Work as authorised signatory for signing time sheets and travel claims, pharmacy supplies and RDC as per policy
Please ensure you include all elements of the job spec within the supporting statement of the application form
This advert closes on Sunday 27 Apr 2025
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Rapid Response Community Sister/Charge Nurse, who has experience of community nursing to join our rapid response CNT in the High Peak/Derbyshire Dales.
The Service is to provide acute (short-term) care in patients' own homes and Residential Care Home settings. The team promotes a self-management approach to patients with their health conditions.
A key priority is for rapid nursing staff to educate patients on their health needs and to provide a self management approach to patients with their condition.
The service provides cover 7 days per week, 08:00–18:30 and incorporates a rapid response service to support patients with urgent nursing care needs.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills of specialist nursing assessment and treatment in a community setting, alongside developing additional generic skills to provide a comprehensive assessment to a variety of complex patients.
You will be well supported in the role by a skilled multi-disciplinary team and have the opportunity to participate within an in-service training programme.
Requirement to travel across High Peak and Derbyshire Dales and flexibility are essential for this post.
Responsible for all aspects of band 6 role including:
Triaging, assessing patient priority and allocating visits in accordance with priority and ensuring we meet Urgent Community Response times;
Supporting new starters/junior staff/ student nurses with achieving clinical competencies/confidence.
Deliver high quality clinical care where required and providing support with complex patient management and co-ordination of care
Support with quality always, audits and data analysis.
Staff management including; probationary meetings, 1-1s, attending meetings, supporting service delivery and implementing change.
There has never been a more exciting time to join one of the largest specialist community NHS providers in the country – one that is also among the very best NHS employers, as voted by its own staff.
Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.
Please review the Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
Provide complex nursing care to individuals making use of current evidence to inform the delivery and promote the development of clinically effective care
Co-ordinate the assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of care programmes which reflect the individual needs of patients and carers which meet best practice using advocated tools/systems as required
Responsible for the ordering of patient’s equipment
Have an awareness of resource management and budgetary position for your service
Work as authorised signatory for signing time sheets and travel claims, pharmacy supplies and RDC as per policy
Please ensure you include all elements of the job spec within the supporting statement of the application form
This advert closes on Sunday 27 Apr 2025