Twilight Community Staff Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,521 - £41,956 pro rata inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 July 2025 |
| Location: | Greenwich and Bexley Boroughs, SE9 5AB |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7291925/277-7291925-CPH |
Summary
Community Staff Nurse, Band 5
Greenwich Twilight District Nursing Services
Permanent: Part Time - 25 hours weekly
We are currently looking for dynamic nurses to join the Greenwich Twilight District Nursing service in the both Royal Borough of Greenwich. The service is provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, which also provides a wide range of services. The Twilight Service operates between 17:00 hrs - 22:00 hrs or between 18:00 hrs - 23:00 hours.
As a Community Staff Nurse within the Twilight Service, you will deliver a high standard of nursing care to patients in their own homes. This care includes monitoring of blood glucose, administration of insulin, cannulation, administration of IV antibiotics via infusion, wound care, catheterisation and also delivering sensitive compassionate care at end of life.
Oxleas NHS Trust operates a probationary period, further details are available on request.
As a Community Staff Nurse within Bexley and Greenwich Twilight District Nursing Team, you will ensure the delivery of high quality care in patients own homes whilst ensuring standards are consistently high. You will do this by being competent and having the knowledge to deliver comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
You will be responsible for carrying out full and thorough clinical and risk assessment for the people in your care, carrying out holistic assessments, being sensitive to the needs of patients, and escalating risk to senior staff where necessary.
As an Oxleas Community Staff Nurse, you will also be supported to develop advanced clinical assessment skills including independent prescribing.
We welcome applications from newly qualified nurses with a drive to build on their pre-registration experience and knowledge, to ensure that the care that they deliver is highly skilled and patient-focused.
Due to the requirement to be able to travel across the Borough in a timely manner, a full driver’s licence is essential as well as access to a car for work purposes.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• You will do this by being competent and having the knowledge to
deliver comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
• You will be responsible for carrying out full and thorough clinical and risk assessment for the people in your care, seeing them holistically, being sensitive to their needs and escalating that risk to senior staff where necessary.
• You will develop and implement individualised care plans that will deliver high quality care that is evaluated and continually improved.
• You will be responsible for carrying out full and thorough physical health assessments and regular monitoring of the people in your care, ensuring that their fundamental care needs are assessed and attended to including nutrition, hydration, comfort and hygiene and producing excellent quality documentation which follows the trust record keeping standards.
• You will use courage to challenge and report poor practice at the time and raise your concerns to a senior member of the team and will carry out all your nursing duties to an excellent standard paying high regard to privacy and dignity and maintaining the people in your care’s rights.
• We will expect you to be actively involved in regular clinical supervision and reflective practice and by undertaking the supervision of junior staff. You will collaborate with your line manager in the annual personal development process, setting goals for your continual development and undertaking training and learning opportunities that are identified in the plan.
• You will be committed to carrying out evidence based best practice and to act as a role model for junior staff, leading by example and understanding your own values and judgements and how this can affect your relationship with the people in your care.
This advert closes on Monday 14 Jul 2025
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