Community Nursing Sister/District nurse

Job summary

We are looking for a community nursing sister/charge nurse or a District nurse for the Yateley and Aldershot community nursing teams to lead from the front to ensure the patients on the community nursing caseload are given holistic high quality care whilst ensuring unnecessary hospital admissions.

This is a rewarding role, working in cohesion with the other community sisters/charge nurses and team leaders to deliver care to patient's in their homes.

Working in the community you will be expected to care for patients who are housebound or require the services of the community nursing team for nursing needs such as administration of medication, leg ulcer and pressure ulcer care. The community nursing team also care for patients who are receiving treatment for cancer or who are terminally unwell and wish to be at home for their end of life care. Refer to job description for further information.

There are plenty of opportunities for further CPD.

Car driver is essential with a U.K Full driving licence with access to a vehicle for work. Mileage is claimable via the trust expenses system.

Main duties of the job

• The role of the B6 Community Sister/District nurse/charge nurse to manage the day to day running of a community nursing team in conjunction with the Team Leader along with clinically visiting patients in their homes, providing excellent holistic care.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the community nursing team are functioning at a high level providing excellent patient care for those patients who are on the community nursing team caseload.
• The post holder will be part of a supportive team of other B6 across the other teams covering the North east of Hampshire providing a 7 day service covering the hours of 8am to 8am.
• The post holder ideally has been working in the community setting previously for a minimum of four years, or who feels their current skills can be transferred to the community setting.
• The post holder needs to have completed the practice assessor/Mentorship course.
• The post holder will be working in an autonomous environment and be able to make clinical decisions on their own whilst in the patients' home.

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Yateley Medical Centre - Community Nursing team

Yateley

GU46 7LS

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Yateley Medical Centre - Community Nursing team

Yateley

GU46 7LS

Employer's website

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

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