Senior Community Nurse

Job summary

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and strives to become an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleague's lived experiences.

Locala recognises the value that inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities.

If you are CARING and AMBITIOUS - then join Locala and BE PART OF IT.

Are you ready for a new challenge? Could you make a difference?

Are you:

• Interested in developing your nursing career
• Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care
• Compassionate towards patients and their families
• An excellent communicator with the ability to supervise and motivate a team

Locala Community Nursing teams work across Kirklees providing district nursing care for adult patients within their home including care homes. We provide a range of nursing care to patients who are housebound and unable to be supported within a clinic or practice. Our teams provide excellent care to theirpatients and support them to maximise their independence by promoting self-care.

Main duties of the job

As part of our commitment to continually improve our Community Nursing services, several opportunities have arisen to enhance our teams. The new Senior Nurse role is integral role within our teams, delivering excellent nursing care whilst supporting colleagues with their practice and professional development.

As a NMC registered Nurse you will undertake the supervisory responsibilities to community colleagues under the guidance and support of the Community Nurse Team Leader, working as a multidisciplinary team providing adult community nursing services across the primary care network footprint.

At Locala we support flexible working, full time and part time hours working over a 7 day period. We have vacancies across all our teams as shown below:

• Nights Team (Kirklees wide)
• Dewsbury & Thornhill (base Dewsbury Health Centre)
• Birstall & Batley (base Batley Health Centre)
• Spenborough(base Eddercliffe Health Centre)
• Valleys (base Holme Valley Memorial Hospital)
• MAST (base Skelmanthorpe Health Centre)
• Viaduct (base Newsome Surgery)
• Tolson (base Mill Hill Health Centre)
• Greenwood (base Fartown Health Centre)

At Locala we are committed to supporting professional development and we offer a variety of learning opportunities to support this process.

If you are interested in joining our dynamic teams and share our passions for delivering excellent quality nursing care then apply today.

About us

Welcome to Locala Health and Wellbeing - proud to provide NHS community healthcare services. We help people have better lives - and you can too. Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:-

Be part of an organisation doing things differently. One that delivers CQC-rated "Good" NHS healthcare services, as well as having a "positive social impact in local communities.