Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 067-SB-BANK-COMMNURSE
- Employer
- Procare Health Ltd
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Milford Hospital
- Town
- Milford
- Salary
- £30,639 Pro Rata Per Annum inc. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Community Nurse
5
Job overview
Are you looking for a bank role, where flexibility and development are encouraged? Then we are the organisation to take you on your bank journey.
We have bank positions available within our adult community nursing teams. All community nurses use EMIS as the electronic clinical record system and are provided with a work Ipad and Iphone. You will work as part of a local team, closely with the local acute hospital, social care, mental health teams, GPs, and Practice Nurses to ensure care is personal and centered around local population needs.
We offer Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and NHS Pension. Procare are committed to supporting the development of all employees to their full potential and all employees working within the Procare Community Services adult community nursing service will additionally have access to the staff benefits, learning and development opportunities offered by the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
Are you a Registered Nurse wanting to gain the skills, knowledge, and competencies relevant to the community?
Do you want to develop your career within a clinically led organisation, at the forefront of the revolution of adult community nursing?
Are you passionate for high quality patient care and experience?
We are seeking a highly motivated Registered Nurses to join our Procare bank and work within a wider team of nurses and health care assistants. You will work under the direction of a District Nurse, to assess, implement and evaluate person centred care for a caseload of patients, undertaking venepuncture, wound care, catheterisation, syringe drivers, end of life care and symptom control.
Post holders will be available to work Monday to Sunday between 8 am and 8 pm and be able to travel to patients homes frequently throughout the day across the locality and across Guildford and Waverley.
Working for our organisation
The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.
With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.
We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communication
• Communicates effectively with patients, carers, and all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Maintains accurate and legible documentation and clinical records in line with professional and organisational requirements- this includes contemporary paper records and electronic clinical record system, EMIS
• Attends and actively participates and contributes to team meetings and daily handover
Patient Care/ Safety/ Quality
• Participates in the assessment and care planning of patient care under the direction of the District Nurse and Senior Community Nurse
• Implements and evaluates care and treatment in agreement with the patient and as defined in the care plan
• Escalates any deviation from the care plan or change in condition at hand over and to the District Nurse/ Lead Nurse/ GP accordingly
• Prioritises daily work in line with clinical/ patient need and escalates where there are issues with undertaking
daily visits
• Implements and works to ensure evidence and research-based care and best practice
• Initiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients, and carers
• Takes responsibility for a defined caseload in the absence of the senior community nurse and / or District Nurse
• Participates in risk assessment and promotes the safety and well-being of patients, staff and any other persons and assists in ensuring a safe work environment
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Level 1 Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
- Educated to diploma or level 6 / degree level in relevant area
- Area of special interest in the management and treatment of long-term conditions and willing to undertake additional education in this area
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
- Jo Bayliss
- Job title
- Service Development Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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