Community Sister

Job summary

Community Nursing -- bringing the hospital to our patient's home.

Solent NHS Trust is looking for an inspirational registered nurse to work at Band 6 level as a Community Sister. Community Nurses work autonomously and as part of a team and care is delivered in the patient's own home environment (including residential care) and designated treatment rooms. Our nurses are responsible for a manageable caseload, working across the city ensuring our patients are receiving the best quality care from the comfort of their own homes and thereby avoiding hospital admission.

Solent's Community Nursing is much wider than the nursing team. We work alongside our colleagues within Social Care, our Internal Safeguarding Team, specialist services (both within Solent and external providers) to ensure our patients are provided with the care they require. Working collaboratively enhances staff development but also ensures that our patients are at the heart of everything we do.

You will work within a team that is based at either Bitterne Health Centre, The Royal South Hants Hospital or Broadcast House (by The Western Community Hospital) all located in Southampton. Our working patterns are across a 7 day week. Our core shifts are 0830 - 1630 and 1400 - 2200 hours, but we are open to discussing this. There is also a requirement that you will work 1 in 4 weekends as well as bank holidays. Your job has to work around you too so let's talk about how we can get this right for you and our patients.

Main duties of the job

Although a lone worker, you will be supported by an experienced and nurturing team who are available to allow you to develop your existing skills. You will be provided the training you require to maintain and develop your clinical skills. This will be achieved by attending appropriate training and working with our Educators in Practice and other staff within the team.

Solent's Community Nursing Service work with adults who need support for a multitude of health conditions. These include:

*Long term conditions management

*Acute wounds and complex wound care

*Palliative and end of life care, including bereavement support

*Facilitating discharge from hospital, including drain management, administration of prophylactic medication

*Continence care, including all types of catheter care and bowel care

*PICC line management

*Administration of a variety of medications via different routes

In addition to this as a Band 6 Community Sister you will be expected to:

*Shift co-ordinate, in core hours and out of hours

*Allocate the workload for the whole team

*Supervise staff, including 1:1's and appraisals

*Attend MDT meetings, Virtual Ward

*Often be the first clinician to help address complaints from patients and/or their family/carers

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.