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

Out of Hours Team shifts are worked on a 5 day rota'd basis, between Monday-Sunday with hours of 16:00-00:00 and 21:30-08:30. Weekend work will be required, every 1 in 3 weekends.

We are looking for ambitious, innovative and passionate nurses to join our team who will be instrumental in ensuring the continued provision of excellent services. This post will provide an excellent opportunity to develop your expertise and skills. Our staff are our most valuable asset and we are committed to supporting you to develop your career with us reaching your full potential.

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

Assess patient/client, plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures to achieve best health outcome for patient/client/family/health needs as well as actively promote health and wellbeing

Evaluate clinical outcome and report variance to clinical pathway, protocols, or best practice guidelines

Contribute to effective discharge planning and/or referral process to health care provider and support agencies to meet identified health needs

Apply diagnostic reasoning and professional judgement to nursing practice

Manage daily care of patient/client and when required manage care in the absence of senior colleagues

Foster inquiry and critical thinking amongst colleagues to advance nursing practice and patient/client care to ensure the provision of positive patient/client outcomes and person-centred care

Accurately document assessments of patients/client's health status, diagnosis and response to nursing and other interventions and treatments

Effectively manage clinical care and area through the implementation of clearly defined policies and procedures

Educate and provide information to patients/clients/family to improve knowledge of illness, self-management prevention of complications and promotion of recovery

Role model safe nursing practice and report poor practice when observed

Practice in accordance with legal, ethical, culturally safe, and professional standards including the Code of practice

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

• BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
• Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality
• Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
• Practice assessor/supervisor

Experience

Essential

• Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans
• Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients
• Experience of MDT working
• Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources

Employer details

Employer name

Solent NHS Trust

Address

St Mary's Community Health Campus

Milton Road

Portsmouth

Hampshire

PO3 6AD

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