If you're passionate about delivering end of life care in patients own homes then the Community Nursing Support Service is the job for you!

The Community Nursing Support Service (CNSST) work across Portsmouth City, providing palliative support for those patients defined as reaching the terminal phase of their palliative journey 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 rostered basis, between Monday-Sunday with hours of 08:30-16:30. Weekend work will be required, every 1 in 3 weekends.

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

In this role, you will be led by one of our Community Matrons and working alongside other professionals such as GP's and Social Services. As a B6 you will offer leadership to the Health Care Support workers within the team and support to the Community Nursing Teams. Experience within the community would be desirable however, everyone has to start somewhere and we want to help you grow and develop as a clinician.

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

*Working within the Nursing and Midwifery guidelines to have responsibility for the care of a defined Community Nursing Support Service caseload within one or more GP practices in the absence of the team leader.

*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.

*Safely manage high risk area including:

*Lone working in the community

*Patient handling in challenging environment where the principles of best practice regarding patient handling may be compromised.

*Challenging behaviour situations

*Driving self

*Handling medical sharps and adhere to infection control policy

*Handling body fluids and other hazardous material

*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 Community Nursing Support Service 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.

*Public health: health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities.

*To actively safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Experience

Essential

• Working autonomously
• Clinical, managerial and leadership skills appropriate to the management of the team and caseload
• To be able to manage the team and caseload on a regular basis to include in the absence of the team leader
• To be able to deliver educational material
• Post-registration experience

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Ability to work independently
• Presentation skills
• Problem-solving, prioritising and delegating appropriately
• Advanced person-centred assessment for the health and well-being of patients with complex needs
• Planning, delivering, and evaluating care to address people's changing health needs
• Identifying and managing risk to the Organisation, Service and individual, staff and patient
• Discharge/transfer planning for patients between services
• Reflective practitioner
• Able to develop and sustain relationships across professional boundaries
• Able to participate in the development of care standards and service development
• Computer literacy skills
• Self-reflecting with regards to personal and professional development
• Person-centred approach
• Ability to work as part of a close-knit team
• Self-motivated, self-starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme
• Being flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities

Employer details

Employer name

Solent NHS Trust

Address

St Mary's Community Health Campus

Milton Road

Portsmouth

Hampshire

PO3 6AD

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449-Team2-1501