Community Staff Nurse - Bluebell Discharge to Assess Ward
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,049.00 to £37,796.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £31049.00 - £37796.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK2 5EQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9362-25-0646 |
Summary
As the post-holder you will need to assist patients/service users/carers/relatives during incidental contacts. Act as patients advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of nursing care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed in a dignified and respectful manner. Ensure all current and relevant policies and procedures are adhered to. Using evidence-based practice, assess patients' physical, psychological and spiritual needs, create care plans, implement and evaluate nursing care involving patients and carers, as appropriate. Ensure patients nutrition and hydration needs are met. Undertake and record full initial assessments at the earliest opportunity. Perform nursing care and enhanced clinical skills to a high quality standard. Monitor patients condition and report observations to relevant health professionals, carrying out nursing interventions as required. Demonstrate safe and timely administration and storage of medications. Achieve and maintain core and specific competencies Report and record all untoward incidents and investigate any incidents, which occur when taking charge. Contribute to the ACE accreditation programme as required. You will need to be able to communicate all relevant information to the multi-disciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required to ensure seamless care Attend departmental and directorate meetings as required, to ensure an awareness of developments within the area of practice. Assist in maintaining an effective communication network; written, verbal and electronic, informing senior staff of all matters outside your role/sphere of competence; cascading information to more junior staff. Develops and maintain communication with people about difficult matters or difficult situations, in an appropriate, supportive and empathic manner. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £43.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13. COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated and you would like some advice or information, including how to get vaccinated, please email mandatory.vaccine@stockport.nhs.uk. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.