Community Registered Nurse
- Employer
- Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Milton Keynes
- Salary
- £29,970 to £36,483 per annum (pro rata if Part Time)
- Closing date
- 13 Nov 2024
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- Profession
- Nurse, Mental health, Mental health nurse, Community nurse, Mental health nurse - community, Adult mental health nurse, Community mental health nurse
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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Are you looking for the next steps in your nursing career?
Are you passionate about Making a difference to patients' lives?
If 'yes' then there couldn't be a more exciting time to join us!
Here at our District Nursing service no day is ever the same. As a well established Community Service, we care for patients with complex needs providing highly skilled assessments and support within their own home environment.
The role will involve working within a team of experienced Community Nurses and working in partnership with multiple stakeholders and voluntary services to provide the best care to our community and shape the future of healthcare across Milton Keynes.
We are looking for nurses who can think on their feet and thrive on the challenges the working day can bring. You will be joining our team of highly motivated proactive professionals to continue our goal of developing our service beyond the traditional scope of nursing in response to the challenging health care needs that we are facing nationally.
The hours of the District nursing Service are 9am - 5pm, 7 days a week including bank holidays, with a view to move the service hours to 9am - 8pm. Driving licence and use of a car is essential.
Main duties of the job
In return we can offer:
About us
There's a place for you at CNWL.We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providingtop quality caredepends on our ability to employ the best people.We're always looking torecruit outstanding peoplewho will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With adiverse culture and equally diverserange of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
key skills
Essential
Others
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Hawthorn Clinic, Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes
MK3 6EN
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
333-D-MK-CM-1091-A
Are you passionate about Making a difference to patients' lives?
If 'yes' then there couldn't be a more exciting time to join us!
Here at our District Nursing service no day is ever the same. As a well established Community Service, we care for patients with complex needs providing highly skilled assessments and support within their own home environment.
The role will involve working within a team of experienced Community Nurses and working in partnership with multiple stakeholders and voluntary services to provide the best care to our community and shape the future of healthcare across Milton Keynes.
We are looking for nurses who can think on their feet and thrive on the challenges the working day can bring. You will be joining our team of highly motivated proactive professionals to continue our goal of developing our service beyond the traditional scope of nursing in response to the challenging health care needs that we are facing nationally.
The hours of the District nursing Service are 9am - 5pm, 7 days a week including bank holidays, with a view to move the service hours to 9am - 8pm. Driving licence and use of a car is essential.
Main duties of the job
In return we can offer:
- flexible working
- Buy & Sell Annual Leave
- an attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits for dependants ill health retirement benefits and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay).
- Employee Assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life
- Staying Well at Work service for tailored employment related support to staff with severe and long term mental health problems
- Physio Med: an education zone, advice line and treatment service for staff
- Staff Wellbeing Zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
- The Recovery College: offers a range of health and wellbeing courses for staff
- A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) NetworkDisabled Employees Network
- Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network
- Carers at Work Network
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BME)
- Discounts and savings at hundreds of retailers nationwide with My Trust Benefits: You can save money on your weekly food shops, household bills, toiletries, and cosmetics, cinema tickets, meals out and holidays or weekend breaks.
- Salary sacrifice
About us
There's a place for you at CNWL.We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providingtop quality caredepends on our ability to employ the best people.We're always looking torecruit outstanding peoplewho will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With adiverse culture and equally diverserange of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provides skilled nursing intervention/care to patients of any age or condition in partnership with the District Nurse and the clinical direction of the General Practitioners within the management structure of the employing
- Undertakes delegated duties for the caseload holder under the supervision of the District Nurse on duty who is covering the
- Takes responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the District Nurse including new visits/assessments, workload management and allocation, dealing with referrals,
- Maintains close liaison with the District Nurse, GP and other members of the primary care team and wider health and social care
- Applies current Infection Control Policy issues and universal
- Encourages patients towards self care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 1 NMC Registered Nurse
Desirable
- Evidence of other professional training, eg. ENB 998
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of a wide range of clinical experience
Desirable
- Post registration experience
- Experience as Community RGN
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of current community nursing issues
- Sound clinical knowledge relative to experience gained
- NMC Code of Conduct
- Basic infection control issues and procedures
key skills
Essential
- Sound practical skills.
- Ability to work unsupervised.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to teach others, eg. staff, patients
- IT skills
Others
Essential
- Full driving licence and use of car for work purposes
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Hawthorn Clinic, Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes
MK3 6EN
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
333-D-MK-CM-1091-A
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