District Nurse - Yeovil & South Somerset

Job summary

Are you a registered nurse with a passion for providing safe, effective, and personalised care in patient's own homes?

The Yeovil & South Somerset neighbourhood are looking for nursing colleagues to join our integrated team, to deliver patient care in the community! Our team cover the geographical area across Yeovil, Wincanton, Chard, Crewkerne and surrounding areas. Please include your preferred location in your application form!

The role of the district nurse has changed over the years, and we are now looking after patients in their home environment including complex wound management, palliative care and end of life care, medicines management, as well as having a high standard of holistic assessment and care planning skills.

You will beworking independently to support with managing the care of patients in our local community and wider Neighbourhood.

We are recruiting due to staff development and promotion - as a service we pride ourselves on colleague development and succession planning. We provide generous support for CPD internal & external opportunities, and for district nursing colleagues specifically we encourage you to apply for the specialist practice qualification which you would be supported to complete on either full or part-time basis.

If you are a qualified RGN, currently looking for a new exciting and rewarding challenge within the community, please look no further and apply today!

Main duties of the job

This post will involve working between the hours of 08:00 - 22:00 including weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.

Shift patterns include: 8am-4pm, 9am-5pm, 10am-6pm, 2pm-10pm. We are open to hearing from applicants who are looking for either full or part-time hours on a permanent basis.

In Somerset, we're working with health and care partners with a newly developed Hospital @ Home programme to care for patients at home safely, rather than being in hospital.

This service is a safe and efficient alternative to hospital care that is enhanced by technology. It supports patients to remain at home, who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care, monitoring and treatment that they need.

This includes either preventing avoidable admissions into hospital or supporting early discharge out of hospital. The service can help patients to complete their treatment or be monitored prior to surgery from the comfort of their own home.

About us

Why chose us?

Kindness, Respect, Teamwork

Everyone, Every day

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust runs acute hospital services, community services, mental health and learning disability services and a quarter of Somerset's GP practices. It runs services from two acute hospitals - Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Yeovil Hospital in Yeovil - services in the community and services from the 13 community hospitals in the county, a range of mental health and learning disability services and Symphony Healthcare Services runs a quarter of GP practices in the county.

Within our trust we are privileged to work with over 12,500 colleagues who deliver or support our patient services. From therapists to nurses, doctors, researchers, scientists, porters, cleaners, kitchen staff, accountants, those who teach, and the receptionists who welcome our patients, the contribution of all of our colleagues is invaluable.

And its these colleagues who care and support a population of 561,000 across Somerset. We believe that the broad range of services that we offer within one organisation put us in a better position to provide mental and physical health services for our population, helping people to enjoy healthier lives with improved equitable access to the specialist care and treatment they need, when they need it.