Community Nurse - Bank

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve. We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups. Locala is a Disability Confident employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process. Bank - Community Nursing (Frailty and IV Therapy team Pool) Band 5 - £29,970 - £36,483 Hours- Various - including 'Out of Hours' Location - Various across Kirklees If you're an ambitious professional in search of the work-life balance that you've been striving for, working at a time suited to you, prepare for a very pleasant surprise. We are seeking enthusiastic, motivated and reliable nurses who are keen to support and deliver a range of quality nursing services to our patients within Kirklees. You will have the energy, enthusiasm and drive to support our teams to deliver high quality services, as well as excellent professional skills.Main duties of the job Working within the Community nursing teams, you will undertake duties involving delivery of nursing services and holistic assessments of patient's health needs using a person-centered approach including providing quality and seamless nursing care to housebound patients and being proactive in coordinating their care needs as appropriate, avoiding unnecessary admission to hospital or long-term care settings. In addition, you will have the opportunity to be involved in facilitating self-care for patients with long term conditions, health promotion, and complex out of hospital patient care. Desired Skills All Community nursing interventions for housebound patients, predominantly:

• Holistic Nursing assessment and ongoing care planning liaising with the team and attendance at safety huddle. Medicines administration including Diabetes
• Management (insulin), palliative care anticipatory medicines and syringe driver administration.
Frailty and OPAT Team Competencies
• To provide holistic nursing assessments
• To follow the escalation plan for the deteriorating patient
• To provide patient centred care
• Assume delegated responsibility for holistic assessment and the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes of care/ care packages, contributing to complex assessment/ care packages.
• To help the patient towards self-care and maximising independence, maintain their optimum level of health and prevent further deterioration.
About us Essential for the role are- Clinical experience of IV therapy delivery, management of vascular access devices, experience in a community setting, venepuncture and cannulation skills and IV administration skills. We can offer bank shifts for you to book and choose at your convenience, training and support in practice to meet the requirements for registration and to meet personal needs. In particular, we are seeking to build our bank workforce with those who can only work weekends, evenings or Nights.

Welcome to Locala Health and Wellbeing - proud to provide NHS community healthcare services across Kirklees, Calderdale and Bradford. We help people have better lives - and you can too. "Join us" and you will get:
• Flexible working-We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
• Generous pension We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
• Development opportunities We have a nursing framework and offer a range of development opportunities in all roles.