Job summary
Employer heading
Community Nurse
Band 5
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
Are you a registered nurse (adult) in need of a new challenge?
We are recruiting for District Nurses to join our District Nursing Teams, we will be recruiting for vacancies across Liverpool Place.
If you have ambition, commitment, and share our aim to deliver perfect care, we’d love to hear from you.
Various Full time and Part time positions available.
Main duties of the job
You will work collaboratively as part of a community health team to meet the needs of patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures and provide clinical leadership.
You will provide competent and skilled nursing care and advice to patients in their own homes and other community settings.
You will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values patients, service users and their carers ensuring they are at the centre of care and treatment planning.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Community Services Division
This clinical division delivers community health services to people in their own homes, health centres and clinics, NHS walk-In centres and our older adults intermediate care ward at Aintree University Hospital site.
As well as the many community nursing services, this division delivers specialist dental health care, therapies, sexual health, medicines management and nutrition and dietetics services. Our teams work closely with GPs and other health and social care services to ensure patients are cared for with the best support, in or closer to their home.
Our services enable people to remain as independent as possible and many are delivered 24 hours, seven days a week.
Every year our staff deliver care to thousands of patients whilst talking to their families and carers. These hundreds of thousands of interactions mean that our staff are best placed to understand patients’ holistic health and social needs, including education, prevention and self care.
Please refer to the job descriptions attached for each of our divisions - you will be able to discuss your work area and location preference on the day of our recruitment event.
We are committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcome applications from applicants wishing to work part-time or with flexible working arrangements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Practitioner
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential criteria
- Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies
- Understanding of audit process
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Conflict resolution skills
- IT literate
- Work as member of a team
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
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
- Lucie Devine-Penman
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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