Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 396-779-N-6467132-N&M-Z-B
- Employer
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Centre House
- Town
- East Sheen
- Salary
- £34,521 - £41,956 per annum including HCAS (outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Nurse band 5
Band 5
On 1st November 2024, our name will be changing to Kingston & Richmond NHS Foundation Trust. To find out more, please visit: https://kingstonhospital.nhs.uk/about-us/better-together-our-partnership-with-hrch/
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*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
Are you ready for a new challenge?
Could you make a difference?
Are you:
- A Registered General Nurse
- Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care
- Compassionate towards patients and their families
- An excellent communicator with the ability to work in a team
- Motivated toward personal development
- A full UK driving license holder with access to a car
An exciting opportunity has come up for the Adult Community Nursing Service. We are currently looking for a Band 5 Community Nurse to work across the Richmond areas based at Centre House, East Sheen. The service operates from 7 am until 7 pm
Collaboratively working with our integrated rapid response teams, community matrons and social service colleagues are essential to ensure seamless care to our patient group.
Get your career in the right direction, with the right organisation and at the right time – please come to HRCH and be part of this organisation.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality, skilled nursing care and to assist the Community Nursing Team Manager in the on-going planning, implementation, and evaluation of the holistic needs of the patient/client, family, and/or carer.
Deliver high quality nursing care to housebound patients with complex needs to enable them to remain in their own homes. Working closely with specialist nurses, allied health and social care professionals to meet the needs of the patients without unnecessary attendance in A&E or be admitted to hospital.
This will involve working independently but as part of the Community Nursing Team covering a particular geographical area. This will include first assessments and reviews, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of individual programmes of care. Candidate will be expected to be flexible to support corporate approach to patient care as and when required.
Working for our organisation
At HRCH, we only want to provide the type of outstanding care that we would recommend to our family and friends. We provide community healthcare and urgent treatment services for over 515,000 people living across the London boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond-Upon-Thames.
In the latest NHS Staff Survey results for community trusts, we had the highest percentage of staff in the country who felt their role made a difference to patients. We also had top scores for satisfaction with the quality of care staff can deliver.
We are the top community trust in the country for Staff engagement, Quality of care and Quality of appraisals, according to the theme results in the 2019 staff survey.
In 2018 we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times and won the HSJ Workforce Award.
Our job is all about people and we believe that staff who feel valued and supported deliver better outcomes for our patients, so we invest in our people and their ideas.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification***
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 1 Registered Nurse- with valid registration with the NMC - RN1 ,RNA
Desirable criteria
- Experience or recognised qualification in areas such as: Health Promotion Diabetes Care of the older person Continence Palliative care Medical/Surgical Nursing
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience of Nursing at Level 5, or evidence of a back to nursing programme
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the community setting
- One years worked post registration experience in a relevant setting, e.g. palliative care, care of the older person, orthopaedics, community services
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to undertake a shift system
- Able to work without direct supervision
- Good communication skills effective with clients and colleagues
- Clinical skills – Administration of medications including injections, catheterisation, wound dressings
- Computer Literacy and keyboard skills
- Access to a motor vehicle for use at work and UK driving licence
- Demonstrates high standard of Infection prevention and control
Desirable criteria
- Teaching Skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to converse articulately on current health issues, demonstrate knowledge in: Able to explain the concepts of Essence of Care Able to explain the concepts of Team Working Able to demonstrate knowledge of professional standards including confidentiality and clinical governance Understanding of Adult Safeguarding Evidence of Continuing Professional Development Demonstrates evidence -based clinical knowledge Able to demonstrate knowledge of health and safety and personal safety issues
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of National Service Framework for Older People & other NSF’s
Personal
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively with a multidisciplinary Team
- Reliable, empathetic, approachable, understanding, non-judgemental and tolerant
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Vanessa Long
- Job title
- Assistant Business Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8487 1625
- Additional information
If you are looking for a role with variety, continuous support, encouragement, and genuine job satisfaction, talk to Claire Moloney, 020 3903 3610
Informal visits (by appointment) are very welcomed; come and see what our teams do and discuss how you can join us.
Vanessa Long (Appointing Manager) can be contacted on 020 8487 1625.
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