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Senior Staff Nurse Community Nursing

Employer
Solent NHS Trust
Location
Portsmouth
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year
Closing date
1 Oct 2024
Join us at Solent, where our staff are our most valuable asset!

We are committed to supporting you to develop your career with us to reach your full potential. You will be surrounded by our team of expert community nurses to develop your case management skills and in leading a committed team of Nursing staff to provide quality nursing care to patients within their own homes.

You will work as part of an integrated health and social care team providing nursing assessment, care and treatment to adults and older people living at home who have physical health needs which may be complex and long term.

Shifts are worked on a 5 day rota'd basis, between Monday-Sunday with hours of 08:30-16:30. Weekend working is also required on a rostered basis. Experience within the community would be desirable however, everyone has to start somewhere and we want to help you grow and develop as a Community Nurse.

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!

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

Main duties of the job

The post holder will take responsibility for managing, co-ordinating and delegating nursing and care interventions within an integrated health and social care team and managing the transfer of care into the Locality Health Teams and District Nursing services.

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

In this role, you will have responsibility for providing the highest standards of patient care through on-going assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care.

Working with the Locality Health Team and other agencies you will use your advanced person-centred assessment skills for the health and well-being of patients with complex needs.

To provide a nursing service in the patient's own home and other community settings to include:

*First contact: acute assessment, nursing diagnosis and care, treatment, and referral.

*Palliative Care: symptom management including assessment of acute symptom onset, care for the patient and their family/carers.

*Continuing Care: Intermediate Care, rehabilitation, chronic disease management and contributes to the delivery of the National Service Frameworks.

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


Desirable

  • Additional post-registration qualification relevant to community nursing, e.g. ENB or equivalent in:- Diabetes / Continence / Palliative Care / Tissue Viability / Asthma / Respiratory Disease


Experience

Essential

  • Work autonomously
  • To be able to manage the team and caseload in the absence of the team leader
  • Proven post-registration experience
  • Clinical, managerial and leadership skills appropriate to the management of the team and caseload
  • To be able to deliver educational material


Employer details

Employer name

Solent NHS Trust

Address

St Mary's Community Health Campus

Milton Road

Portsmouth

Hampshire

PO3 6AD

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