Community Staff Nurse

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity that offers a great work/life balance? Would you like to work within a supportive team and yet have the confidence to lone work? Would you like the opportunity to care for people in their own home? Keeping people out of hospital and working alongside GPs and Advanced Clinical Practitioners to ensure every step can be taken to avoid a hospital admission. The Integrated Care Team are looking for Community Staff Nurses to join our Teams in Wakefield and our surrounding areas. The team covers 24/7-365 days per year. We pride ourselves on being a truly flexible employer, should you require flexible working patterns due to childcare or carer responsibilities, we treat our staff as individuals and work with them to ensure a harmonious work life balance. Working as part of our team, you will have the opportunities to: develop or extend your clinical knowledge and experience by working across a range of clinical settings; develop extensive clinical assessment and case management skills in areas, such as hospital avoidance, managing long term conditions, wound management and end of life care; and to plan and deliver complex care plans. We will support you to develop through our comprehensive preceptorship and mentorship programs. We have excellent electronic facilities to support your learning and development and have recently developed an online portfolio to support your revalidation., The post holder will be responsible for the planning and delivery of patient care within Adult Community Nursing Teams. The post holder is responsible for maintaining and delivering high standards of care. These services will be provided in accordance with the Trusts declared values and principles ensuring the delivery of quality, patient centred care.

• To supervise and lead staff within the District Nursing Team in the absence of the District Nurse/Caseload holder promoting positive staff behaviour and facilitating the delivery of treatment and rehabilitation to individuals, groups and communities.
• To assist in supporting the coordination of community nursing services across Wakefield District, to ensure uninterrupted, seamless patient care, to support nursing colleagues in the provision of a high quality, 24 hour, 7 day per week nursing service.
• Demonstrate the appropriate supervision skills with mentorship, achievement of learning competencies and ongoing training and development. Take responsibility for the delegated Appraisals and achievement of learning competencies for a designated number of support workers.
  
  We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce. We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care. We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience. We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.