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.

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. 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.

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

*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 District Nursing 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.

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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