Band 5 Registered Community Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Band 5 Community Registered Nurse to come and join us in our Community District Nurse teams in Solihull.

Community District Nursing is a busy but rewarding job, you will be surrounded by friendly and supportive colleagues in an environment that encourages new ideas, innovation, and personal development. The team thrives on delivering high standards of care at all times in a safe, effective, and timely manner.

The role involves working autonomously and a car driver/owner.

Main duties of the job

To work collaboratively with GPs and other professionals to ensure the best possible care is provided to patients in the community, avoiding unnecessary admissions and prolonged hospital admissions.

To communicate effectively with patients, families and carers as required, intervening to overcome barriers to communication, using advocacy skills when necessary to achieve effective outcomes for patients who may have sensory impairment, confusion and/or aggression.

To assist the caseload holder in planning and ensuring work is allocated on a daily basis, prioritising as the service requires utilising the dependency scoring tool.

To ensure that risk factors to clients, carers and Trust staff within their working environments are recognised and appropriately addressed.

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.