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Senior Community Staff Nurse

Employer
Solent NHS Trust
Location
Portsmouth
Salary
£28,407 to £34,581 a year
Closing date
22 Aug 2024
If you're passionate about preventing hospital admissions and responding to urgent care needs to patients within their own homes, then Community Nursing is the role for you!

Our Community Nursing Team work across Portsmouth City, providing clinical intervention for individuals with a range of needs within their own home environment throughout the day and night. Our care is 24/7, 365 days a year so we're looking for Registered Nurses to join our day team.

Day Team shifts are worked on a 5 day rota'd basis, between Monday-Sunday with hours of 08:30-16:30. Weekend work will be required, every 1 in 3 weekends.

We would love to hear from nursing students who are due to qualify in the summer and are looking for their first nursing role at Solent NHS Trust. Your new journey will be supported by an induction period where you will be supernumerary. You will also be surrounded by a widely experienced community nursing team who will share their skills and knowledge with you to help your development as an independent practitioner.

What we really need from you is the drive to deliver the best quality and patient centred care.

We need you to travel across the city to visit our patients so ideally, you will have access to your own car. We also have pool cars which can be used by people with full UK driving licences and if you want to use your own, you can claim mileage!

Main duties of the job

*Work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability.

*Deal empathetically with sensitive information, to include discussing patient's changing condition with patient and/or carer.

*The post holder will take responsibility for managing, co-ordinating patient care and utilising other services.

*You will participate in inter-professional working and the development, implementation and evaluation of the delivery of health care services.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse


Experience

Essential

  • Proven post-registration experience
  • To be able to manage the team and caseload in the absence of the team leader
  • Work autonomously


Employer details

Employer name

Solent NHS Trust

Address

St Mary's Community Health Campus

Milton Road

Portsmouth

Hampshire

PO3 6AD

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