Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 150-GM8987-WST-H
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Crawley PCN Healthy and First
- Town
- Crawley
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Staff Nurse to join Crawley Healthy and First Community PCN.
The PCN is a group of practices working together in collaboration with community and other health and care services. PCNs will enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Care is organised around individuals' identified needs through collaborative working by service providers to deliver excellent patient care at the heart of the community.
Crawley Healthy and First Community PCN Team are looking for registered nurses to join the team. If you are newly registered or looking for a new challenge, Community Nursing offers a great opportunity to specialise in a highly diverse and rewarding field.
Community nursing offers the applicants many specialties in one role.
Any successful applicants will have an individual induction plan to ease into this community environment.
Main duties of the job
Community Staff Nurse
To deliver high quality care in the community in patients own homes, working with patients towards rehabilitation, self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care. To participate in a team of colleagues supporting evidence based care, facilitating staff learning and development.
The main aspects of the role are diabetic management, wound management including leg ulcer diagnosis and treatment, palliative care working very closely with the Hospice and GP’s, bladder and bowel care including urethral and supra pubic catheters and other continence needs.
As well as the traditional type of patients as stated above, we work in partnership with the local health and social providers covering a specific group of people under frailty. This group includes Severely Frail (score based), Dementia diagnosis, End of Life, Complex Conditions and Care Home Patients.
Working for our organisation
If you are patient-centred, committed to delivering high quality care, and have excellent nursing care skills, a “can do” attitude and a desire to be the best, then this is the job for you.
In return we can offer you:
- Flexible working patterns
- Supportive learning environment
- Dedicated career pathways and great opportunities for continuing professional development
- Commitment to and support for your wellbeing
- NHS Pension Scheme
- NHS discount and salary sacrifice schemes, including childcare vouchers
If you are passionate about making a difference and want to contribute to an organisation which is continuously striving to achieve excellence then we would love to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deliver high quality care in the community, working with patients towards rehabilitation, self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care.
To participate in a team of colleagues supporting evidence based care, facilitating staff learning and development.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- RN qualification / degree or diploma
- ENB 998 or equivalent or work towards
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a community setting
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills e.g. wound management, catheterisation skills, medicines management and administration, palliative and end of life care including management of syringe drivers.
- Is able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- Knowledge of current local policies informing community health and social care services
- A clear understanding of the role of the Community Staff Nurse
- Promote independence and choice in undertaking patient care
- IT literate or willing to achieve within an agreed period
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision, Professional codes of Conduct
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge/ understanding of boundaries of role
- Practice supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Motivational interviewing skills
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates abillity to reflect and learn from situations
- Demonstrates a commitment to life-long learning and development/competency framework
- Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
- Demonstrates a high level of understanding of self and able to identify personal limitation, shows openess to address them
- Ability to travel between sites, car owner and driver with access to a vehicle for work
- An understanding of the principles of equal opportunities in relation to staff and patients
Must Hold a full UK driving license & access to a car.
Essential criteria
- Full UK license
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Kavanagh
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07824606688
- Additional information
Visits to the team are welcomed.
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