This post is open to Internal MPFT Applicants only Join our North Stoke Community Nursing Team as a Senior Community Nurse!

Community nursing teams deliver holistic, complex care to housebound patients within their own home environments.

• Do you have a passion for community nursing?
• Can you coordinate the community nursing team and shifts?
• Are you competent in core community nursing skills as per the skills passport?
• Are you able to lead and support others to develop through supervision & appraisal?
• Are you committed to delivering high quality, individualised care to community patients in line with evidence based practice?
• Are you able to coordinate MDT meetings to ensure positive patient outcomes?

If so, then a Senior Community Nurse post within our Whitfield PCN could be for you!

In return you will receive:-

• Bespoke development plan to support your professional development
• MPFT learning and training packages relevant to role
• Opportunities for external training in line with your development pathway including university modules or funded conferences

Main duties of the job

Working in collaboration with colleagues and the wider leadership team you will:

-You will be responsible for allocating patient visits within the skill set for the community nursing team. You will work alongside the Lead Practitioner to manage the caseload, including reviewing demand and capacity.

-You will be competent in a wide variety of clinical skills, and be able to share your knowledge and expertise with others, signposting to more specialist services as appropriate.

-You will an effective leader, demonstrating care, compassion and empathy and role modelling the Trust values. You will be able to support staff within the team to develop their own skills and will offer a high standard of supervision.

-You will be able to engage complex patients, agree mutually beneficial treatment plans and to plan, implement and evaluate care pathways.

-You will support with quality assurance, including audit, incident reporting and gaining patient feedback. You will work with the leadership team to evaluate this in line with objectives.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to �2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to �250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents.

Essential Qualifications and training

Nursing Degree or equivalentMentorship/Assessor QualificationEssential experience

Experience in leading and supporting othersCore clinical skills relevant to community nursing as per the community nursing skills passportCompetent in lower limb and doppler assessment

Professional Registration

Current Nursing registration with the NMC

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Nursing Degree or equivalent
• Mentorship/ Practice Assessor qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience in leading and supporting others
• Community nursing skill passport completed
• Competent in LLA and doppler

Professional Registration

Essential

• Current Nursing registration with the NMC

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tunstall Primary Care Centre

Tunstall

ST66BE

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

301-VA-24-6514090