Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekends, bank holidays and shift patterns)
- Job ref
- 382-FICC218-24
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whitegate Health Centre
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Staff Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Central neighbourhood integrated community team based at Whitegate HC.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool. With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our staff and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care. We form a central part of the Healthier Fylde Coast Integrated Care Partnership and our progressive approach to partnership working in the area provides an enviable opportunity to redesign and deliver services that meet the challenges of today’s health system.
Main duties of the job
As a community nurse you will gain a unique set of skills. As a team we will support you to gain these skills by providing appropriate extra training.
We will also provide the following to ensure your transition to a new area / team is as smooth as possible by:
- Robust induction period
- Buddy/Mentor
- Preceptorship programme
- Protected supernumerary time
- Clinical 1 to 1 and supervision sessions with Clinical Lead
- In House and external training provision.
The main duties of the role are to provide holistic, patient centred, evidence based care to individuals in their own home setting. This will include:
- Administration of medications
- Care of the elderly
- Palliative care and assessment of needs
- Syringe driver management
- Central line care
- PEG care
- Wound care
- Drain management
- Venous & arterial leg ulcer care
- Catheter & nephrostomy care
- Holistic assessments and risk bundles
- Observations
- Venepuncture
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool. With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our staff and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care. We form a central part of the Healthier Fylde Coast Integrated Care Partnership and our progressive approach to partnership working in the area provides an enviable opportunity to redesign and deliver services that meet the challenges of today’s health system.
We are not underestimating the challenges facing today’s health system but believe there are the foundations here in Blackpool to deliver truly excellent, integrated services that can make a major impact on the lives of the thousands of people we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the individual requirements of patients and carers referred to District Nursing
Provide a high standard of evidence based nursing care to patients in the Community.
Use a high level of communication skills with patients and their families, including those with English as a second language or learning disabilities, to communicate condition-related
Actively seek to promote health both individually and to patients and carers.
Administer drugs within NMC guidelines.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse level 1
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- V 150 Non-medical prescriber or willing to undertake.
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification
- NVQ Assessor
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to deal with difficult situations.
- Ability to Identify and assess patient’s needs.
- Ability to use resources appropriately.
Desirable criteria
- 18-24 month’s community experience.
- Chronic disease management
- Multidisciplinary working
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good team worker.
- Ability to organize self and others by prioritizing and delegating as needed
- Good time management skills.
- Ability to teach
- IT literate.
- Clinical audit knowledge or ability to participate.
- Willing to develop professionally.
- Up to date knowledge of current NHS issues and aware of current trends in the NHS.
- Good hand/eye coordination.
- Confident decision maker.
- Good communication skills.
- Able to make decisions on evidence based practice.
- Able to communicate sensitive information to patients.
- Ability to ensure equality and value diversity.
- Understand implications of lone working
- Adaptable
- Enthusiastic
- Non-judgmental
- Empathetic
- Flexible attitude to work
- Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job
- Motivated
- Evidence of self-development
- Approachable
- Ability to communicate effectively in English.
Desirable criteria
- Analytical ability.
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
- Emma Andrews
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 953377
List jobs with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery or all sectors