Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Kingsbridge Community nurse Team for a band 5 Community Registered Nurse
Up to 37.5hours per week.
The role requires positivity and excellent communication, leadership, and caseload management abilities. You will need to demonstrate integrity and initiative, sound clinical knowledge with evidenced based practice and the ability to manage a team, approaching your work in a coordinated way.
We work integrated with primary care, adult social care, therapists, urgent & intermediate care services alongside our specialist services informing our ageing well MDTs which facilitates shaping our future to deliver great quality care for housebound individuals.
We strive to maximise wellbeing, improve health outcomes and patient experience, and support people to remain at home. Through expert advice and clinical support and treatment, promoting the optimum quality of life. Whilst providing an effective and efficient service delivery, utilising health promotion, wound, medication, and continence management.
If you have an interest in community nursing, preventing hospital admissions, and caring for people with complex long-term disease, through to the last stages of their life, this role is for you.
All Livewell Southwest staff are expected to able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
Job Share(s) Considered
Main duties of the job
The post holder works as a member of the District Nursing &Primary Health Care Team during their working day.
The post holder is supported by the Caseload Holder &is responsible for providing skilled nursing care &information to patients &carers.
The aim of which is maintaining patients in their own homes & enabling them to enjoy maximum independence &optimum quality of life.
The post holder will have a clinical role within the District Nursing Team; they will have responsibility for admitting &discharging patients to and from the caseload(s).
The post holder is responsible for assessing, triaging, planning, evaluating &implementing care which may be complex, sensitive &unpredictable with the support of a Caseload Holder.
The post holder is responsible for coordinating the caseload in the absence of the Caseload Holder on a temporary basis. This will be reviewed after a three-month period by the line manager or a Manager.
The post holder will work alongside Health & Social Care Services within statutory and voluntary sectors providing appropriate nursing skills to ensure care packages are responsive to individual needs of patients within their own homes &other care settings.
To signpost to appropriate services, statutory & voluntary bodies.
To undertake &to develop all nursing skills &competencies, updating as required for the role to enhance the skill mix of the nursing team, ensuring that the ever-changing health needs of patients are met.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
***** For full details regarding the role please see the attached document entitled Job Description *****
Job description
Job responsibilities
***** For full details regarding the role please see the attached document entitled Job Description *****
Person Specification
Behavioural Attributes & Competencies
Essential
- Familiar with and committed to the principles and values of the NHS.
- Demonstrate commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Consistently put clinicians at the heart of decision making.
- Creates and fosters a culture of openness, honesty, integrity and inclusiveness.
- Values diversity and difference.
- Uses evidence to make improvements and seeks out innovation.
- Demonstrates commitment to partnership working.
- Flexible approach to working.
- Attention to detail.
- Highly motivated with ability to influence and inspire others.
- Outcomes focused.
- Ability to act as a champion for patients/carers and their interests, ensuring the patients voice has an impact on service developments.
Qualifications
Essential
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence or recent updating/training
- Current knowledge of developments in nursing and healthcare in general
- Understanding of Clinical Governance including audit and research
- Understanding of clinical supervision and continued professional development
- Understanding of Team function
- Awareness or recent Government policies
- Understanding of Community Nursing service and local issue
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- (998/ mentorship or
- Equivalent)
- Relevant post registration courses/ knowledge base relevant to the post
- Non-Medical Prescribing
Experience
Essential
- Experience of a variety of healthcare settings
Skills
Essential
- To be able to respond to urgent calls in different parts of the city
- Ability to use initiative and work autonomously
- Ability to problem solve
- Good time management
- Delegation skills
- Negotiation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Effective communication and interactive skills including oral, written and IT
- Ability to assess and treat patients using evidence based practice
Desirable
- Leadership, co-ordination and management skills
- Advanced knowledge and competence with specialised skills required in everyday community nursing
- Teaching/mentorship skills
- Tissue Viability, compression bandaging
- Palliative/terminal care
- Picc/Hicc lines
- IV Drugs, cannulation
- Diagnostic skills e.g. Doppler
- Tracheostomy, Peg feeds
- Venepuncture
- Continence management
- Catheterisation, urethral, supra-pubic
- Chronic disease management
- Complex CHC assessments.
- Previous triage experience.
Person Specification
Behavioural Attributes & Competencies
Essential
- Familiar with and committed to the principles and values of the NHS.
- Demonstrate commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Consistently put clinicians at the heart of decision making.
- Creates and fosters a culture of openness, honesty, integrity and inclusiveness.
- Values diversity and difference.
- Uses evidence to make improvements and seeks out innovation.
- Demonstrates commitment to partnership working.
- Flexible approach to working.
- Attention to detail.
- Highly motivated with ability to influence and inspire others.
- Outcomes focused.
- Ability to act as a champion for patients/carers and their interests, ensuring the patients voice has an impact on service developments.
Qualifications
Essential
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence or recent updating/training
- Current knowledge of developments in nursing and healthcare in general
- Understanding of Clinical Governance including audit and research
- Understanding of clinical supervision and continued professional development
- Understanding of Team function
- Awareness or recent Government policies
- Understanding of Community Nursing service and local issue
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- (998/ mentorship or
- Equivalent)
- Relevant post registration courses/ knowledge base relevant to the post
- Non-Medical Prescribing
Experience
Essential
- Experience of a variety of healthcare settings
Skills
Essential
- To be able to respond to urgent calls in different parts of the city
- Ability to use initiative and work autonomously
- Ability to problem solve
- Good time management
- Delegation skills
- Negotiation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Effective communication and interactive skills including oral, written and IT
- Ability to assess and treat patients using evidence based practice
Desirable
- Leadership, co-ordination and management skills
- Advanced knowledge and competence with specialised skills required in everyday community nursing
- Teaching/mentorship skills
- Tissue Viability, compression bandaging
- Palliative/terminal care
- Picc/Hicc lines
- IV Drugs, cannulation
- Diagnostic skills e.g. Doppler
- Tracheostomy, Peg feeds
- Venepuncture
- Continence management
- Catheterisation, urethral, supra-pubic
- Chronic disease management
- Complex CHC assessments.
- Previous triage experience.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
