Night nurse

Medway Community Healthcare

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Job summary

  • Are you a skilled registered nurse with excellent interpersonal skills and sound clinical assessment skills?
  • Are you passionate about supporting patients holistically to leave hospital earlier, and avoid repeat admissions?
  • Would you like to join a service that will give you the time and space to learn, with a comprehensive nursing induction programme and clinical supervision?

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Registered Nurse to complement our skill mix within our Medway Night Nursing Team, supporting with the provision of holistic, person centred care as delegated within your level of agreed competency, to patients, families/carers in their own homes in the out of hours period.

The service runs from 7pm to 7amm 365 days a year. You will be expected to work flexibly across the Neighbourhood Nursing Service. The role encompasses treatment, advice and teaching within the professional competence of the post holder and applicants need to demonstrate a commitment to the provision of high-quality evidence-based care. You will demonstrate an awareness of current evidence-based approaches to patient care and will be actively involved in the development of local strategies and contribute to Service improvement and redesign. MCH has a multi-cultural and ethnically diverse population which offers a wide spectrum of healthcare challenges which can be both complex and rewarding.

This position involves working weekends and some Bank Holidays. Occasional day time work will be required to meet your learning and development needs. Due to the nature of this role, you will need to have a valid UK driving licence and access to a car you can use for work purposes.

About us

So what else?

  • Here at Medway Community Healthcare we believe we have taken huge steps to put the health and wellbeing of our people at the heart of what we do. Our aim is to 'Make life Better' at work and in doing so we have developed a health and wellbeing strategy which pulls together quality resources and support offers for staff and line managers to effectively meet the health and wellbeing needs of their teams. We are proud to have been awarded Gold in the Medway Workplace Wellbeing Awards and our health and wellbeing allies ensure our people's health and wellbeing is a priority.

Would you like to work flexibly?In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The small print

  • We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the Scottish Widows group pension scheme.
  • We are a small social enterprise providing NHS services, and as such, we cannot take overseas nursing candidates who do not already have full UK registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. We cannot support candidates with their OSCE preparation, OSCE exam, accommodation and pastoral care. As such, if you are not able to provide us with your NMC PIN on your application, we will not be able to shortlist you.

Date posted

29 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum (dependent on NHS service)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

813-223-0324-LB-A

Job locations

Medway Maritime Hospital

Gillingham

ME7 5NY


Job description

Job responsibilities

Person specification

Criteria

Essential

Disposition, adjustment, attitude and commitment

  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Self-motivated
  • Open and friendly
  • Team player
  • Ability to make decisions autonomously and take initiative, escalating issues appropriately
  • Supportive of colleagues
  • Flexible and responsive to the needs of the service

Desirable

  • Assertive but diplomatic towards colleagues, patients, carers and relatives with interpersonal skills which will encourage self-empowerment

Ability to recognise own limitations and to refer appropriately when necessary in accordance with professional code of conduct

  • Demonstrate leadership qualities

Practical / intellectual skills

  • Problem solving approach
  • Able to make clinically appropriate decisions.
  • Good collaborative working skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to travel to sites in a timely manner

Desirable

  • Evidence of ability to undertake complex problem solving
  • Effective time management, organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines

Qualifications, training, knowledge and experience

  • 1st level registered nurse
  • Degree / diploma in adult nursing

Working as part of a team

Able to work under own initiative

Working in a health/social care environment

  • Experience of using technology to facilitate provision of patient care
  • Clinical competence in core nursing care provision
  • Evidence of continual professional development
  • Ability to plan and develop programmes of care/care packages
  • Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines
  • IT literate, word processing and use of the internet
  • Ability to carry put risk assessments
  • Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree/diploma level.

Desirable

  • A wide breadth of relevant community nursing experience, including palliative care and wound care
  • Experience of provision of holistic community nursing care provision
  • Demonstrates comprehensive skill set to meet the breadth of community care provision

Communication skills

  • Provide and receive complex, sensitive information; barriers to understanding; persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training skills are required.
  • Communicates sensitive, confidential information concerning patients/clients requiring empathy, persuasion and reassurance. Some may have special needs.

Analytical and judgemental skills

  • Judgements on problems requiring investigation, analysis, e.g. assessment of condition, where there may be a range of options for comparison

Planning and organisational skills

  • Plans provision of care for patients/clients/children, e.g. clinics, health education. May organise staff

Physical skills

  • Driving
  • Carries out immunisations
  • Restraint of patients / clients using approved techniques
  • Dexterity and accuracy required for, e.g. intravenous injections, syringe pumps and infusion, insertion of catheters and removal of sutures

Responsibility for patient care

  • Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates clinical care of patients/clients; gives specialist advice to clients/carers

Responsibility for policy and service development

  • Follows policies, makes comments on proposals for change

Financial and physical resources

  • Responsible for equipment used/ Handles patient valuables; orders supplies; signs timesheets

Human resources

  • Demonstrates duties to new starters
  • Supervises work of others; clinical supervision of staff, students.

Information resources

  • Maintains work-related records

Research and development

  • Undertakes surveys / audits as required.
  • Occasional participation in R&D activity

Freedom to Act

  • Clearly defined occupational policies; work is managed, rather than supervised
  • Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines

Effort factors

Physical effort

Frequently walks, sits and stands; kneels and crouches to e.g. dress wounds / manoeuvres patients, lifts substantial equipment, bathes patients

Mental effort

Frequent concentration in providing clinical care, e.g. immunisation, calculating drug dosages for infusion, carrying out tests/ Interruptions to deal with unpredictable patient/client behaviour

Emotional effort

Occasionally imparts unwelcome news, care of terminally ill / safeguarding issues, e.g. adult abuse. Some challenging behaviour.

Working conditions

Frequently deals with body odours, dust, noise/, body fluids and occasionally verbal aggressions

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person specification

Criteria

Essential

Disposition, adjustment, attitude and commitment

  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Self-motivated
  • Open and friendly
  • Team player
  • Ability to make decisions autonomously and take initiative, escalating issues appropriately
  • Supportive of colleagues
  • Flexible and responsive to the needs of the service

Desirable

  • Assertive but diplomatic towards colleagues, patients, carers and relatives with interpersonal skills which will encourage self-empowerment

Ability to recognise own limitations and to refer appropriately when necessary in accordance with professional code of conduct

  • Demonstrate leadership qualities

Practical / intellectual skills

  • Problem solving approach
  • Able to make clinically appropriate decisions.
  • Good collaborative working skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to travel to sites in a timely manner

Desirable

  • Evidence of ability to undertake complex problem solving
  • Effective time management, organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines

Qualifications, training, knowledge and experience

  • 1st level registered nurse
  • Degree / diploma in adult nursing

Working as part of a team

Able to work under own initiative

Working in a health/social care environment

  • Experience of using technology to facilitate provision of patient care
  • Clinical competence in core nursing care provision
  • Evidence of continual professional development
  • Ability to plan and develop programmes of care/care packages
  • Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines
  • IT literate, word processing and use of the internet
  • Ability to carry put risk assessments
  • Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree/diploma level.

Desirable

  • A wide breadth of relevant community nursing experience, including palliative care and wound care
  • Experience of provision of holistic community nursing care provision
  • Demonstrates comprehensive skill set to meet the breadth of community care provision

Communication skills

  • Provide and receive complex, sensitive information; barriers to understanding; persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training skills are required.
  • Communicates sensitive, confidential information concerning patients/clients requiring empathy, persuasion and reassurance. Some may have special needs.

Analytical and judgemental skills

  • Judgements on problems requiring investigation, analysis, e.g. assessment of condition, where there may be a range of options for comparison

Planning and organisational skills

  • Plans provision of care for patients/clients/children, e.g. clinics, health education. May organise staff

Physical skills

  • Driving
  • Carries out immunisations
  • Restraint of patients / clients using approved techniques
  • Dexterity and accuracy required for, e.g. intravenous injections, syringe pumps and infusion, insertion of catheters and removal of sutures

Responsibility for patient care

  • Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates clinical care of patients/clients; gives specialist advice to clients/carers

Responsibility for policy and service development

  • Follows policies, makes comments on proposals for change

Financial and physical resources

  • Responsible for equipment used/ Handles patient valuables; orders supplies; signs timesheets

Human resources

  • Demonstrates duties to new starters
  • Supervises work of others; clinical supervision of staff, students.

Information resources

  • Maintains work-related records

Research and development

  • Undertakes surveys / audits as required.
  • Occasional participation in R&D activity

Freedom to Act

  • Clearly defined occupational policies; work is managed, rather than supervised
  • Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines

Effort factors

Physical effort

Frequently walks, sits and stands; kneels and crouches to e.g. dress wounds / manoeuvres patients, lifts substantial equipment, bathes patients

Mental effort

Frequent concentration in providing clinical care, e.g. immunisation, calculating drug dosages for infusion, carrying out tests/ Interruptions to deal with unpredictable patient/client behaviour

Emotional effort

Occasionally imparts unwelcome news, care of terminally ill / safeguarding issues, e.g. adult abuse. Some challenging behaviour.

Working conditions

Frequently deals with body odours, dust, noise/, body fluids and occasionally verbal aggressions

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1st level registered nurse
  • Degree/diploma in adult nursing

Experience

Essential

  • See job description

MCH values

Essential

  • Demonstrates behaviours in line with MCH values
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1st level registered nurse
  • Degree/diploma in adult nursing

Experience

Essential

  • See job description

MCH values

Essential

  • Demonstrates behaviours in line with MCH values

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

Medway Maritime Hospital

Gillingham

ME7 5NY


Employer's website

https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

Medway Maritime Hospital

Gillingham

ME7 5NY


Employer's website

https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical lead

Sam Cornick

sam.cornick2@nhs.net

07725197181

Date posted

29 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum (dependent on NHS service)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

813-223-0324-LB-A

Job locations

Medway Maritime Hospital

Gillingham

ME7 5NY


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