Community Nurse Specialist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Community Nurse Specialist to join the Out of Hours Community Nursing Service. The post is to cover 22 hours for the evening hours of 19:00 to 07:00.

The Out of Hours team provides responsive, planned and unplanned support to patients requiring urgent nursing within their own homes/residential care settings. Staff are expected to work autonomously and must be prepared to travel and organise time accordingly. We have technology and lone working procedures in place to support staff during visits.

You must also be able to care for people who live in the community, who are at risk of deteriorating health resulting in a reduced quality of life, with an emphasis on avoiding hospital admission or unnecessarily long lengths of stay. We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Out of Hours Community Nursing Team.

You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to organise and prioritise your workload without direct supervision. You should be committed to delivering a high quality service through an integrated and holistic approach to patient care.

For further information please contact; Nicole Brooks, Out of Hours Community Nurse Lead

Email: nicole.brooks@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

• To provide holistic nursing assessment, high quality care, support, advice and information to patients and carers with the aim of maintaining patients in their own homes, enabling them to enjoy maximum independence and optimum quality of life
• To ensure the effective co-ordination and provision of the Nursing Service in the absence of the ISU Nurse Lead
• To actively participate in the planning and discharge of complex patients from secondary to primary care
• To provide nursing interventions, assessment, liaison, referral, co-ordination, delegation of care, or placement in order to prevent hospital admissions
• To provide specialist clinical advice to the multi-disciplinary team
• To manage a team of Community Nurses and SNR's in line with the trust policy

About us

The Out of Hours Nursing Team are a supportive team who enjoy mentoring team members and are passionate about delivering quality care to the housebound patients that they see. The Team are motivated and caring to both patients and colleagues.

The Out of Hours Team provides responsive, planned and unplanned support to patients requiring urgent nursing within their own homes/residential care settings.

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