Senior Community Staff Nurse - Nights

Job summary

Community Senior Nurse- Night Team

Band - 6 (£38,682 - £46,580)

Hours - 20 or 30 hours per week (shift times 11.00pm to 8.00am)

Permanent

Main duties of the job

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Senior Nurse post to work within the Community Nursing Night service in Locala, which cover areas across North Kirklees and Greater Huddersfield.

The opportunity will enable the successful applicant to help lead and develop the Night service and team alongside their Band 6 colleagues and the Band 7 team manager ensuring the values of the Organisation is upheld.

An enthusiasm to support our teams to deliver high quality services is a must for this role, and you will also need to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, and approachable.

The applicant will require a good, positive attitude, the ability to work alongside multi-professionals and their daytime colleagues and the ability to adapt to the needs of the service. The Senior Nurse will also be responsible for providing clinical advice to colleagues at the single point of Contact call Centre and liaising with the on-call manager for Locala as required Out of Hours.

Working within the Community Nursing Night team, you will also undertake duties involving delivery of nursing services and holistic assessments of patients health needs using a person-centred approach.

This includes providing quality and seamless nursing care to housebound and sometimes non housebound patients and being proactive in coordinating their care needs as appropriate, avoiding unnecessary admission to hospital or long-term care institutions.

About us

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

Locala is a Disability Confident employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.

Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:-

• Flexible working-We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
• Generous pension We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
• Refer a Friend Scheme -If you know a friend or family member who works at Locala on a substantive contract, you may be able to take advantage of our Refer a Friend Scheme. You both could receive a reward of £500 each, after you have successfully started your role with us.