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Job overview

Calling newly qualifying and experienced nurses. Have you considered Community Nursing as your next career move?

The community setting is an exciting, complex and diverse area to work in, with the privileged position of caring for patients in their own homes being responsible for the implementation and undertaking of patient centred care.

We are seeking newly qualified and experienced registered nurses ready to extend their professional development. We can support you to gain the competencies required alongside working through our bespoke preceptorship programme. We have a practice facilitator to support with this programme and to support all staff new to the community.

We are a family friendly organisation and are happy to consider and compromise hours and locality of teams. We have three Integrated Community Teams: Severn - covering Stonehouse / Frampton area, Cotswolds - covering Stroud / Painswick / Bussage area, and Berkeley Vale - covering Dursley/ Wotton / Berkeley. We currently work on a rolling rota for weekends, usually 1 in 4, supporting good work life balance.

Main duties of the job

Community nursing is a diverse role that requires autonomous working with in a patients home.  The main duties are outlined below: 

• To Practice as a member of the community nursing team, working within the Integrated Community Teams (ICTs)
• Liaise with GPs, the ICTs and other Statutory and Voluntary agencies.
• To provide advice, information and education to patients and carers with the aim of enabling patients to enjoy maximum independence, health and well-being.
• To creatively manage the holistic and clinical needs of patients with acute, sub-acute and long-term conditions,
• To enable patients living long term physical health challenges to live well within their communities, with a focus on not only their physical health needs but also their wider holistic needs, e.g. mental health, learning disabilities, psychological needs, social needs and spiritual needs.
• To excel in this role, you will require excellent communication skills, the courage to make clinical decisions and a willingness to develop your potential. You will require current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse.

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. 

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).   It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; 
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work; 
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative     

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.