Community Staff Nurse

As a community nurse working within the planned care service , you will be providing high quality care for people in their own homes, ranging from long term conditions, to complex and palliative care. You'll be working on a rotational basis as part of a seven-day service, with the support of agile technology to help you deliver timely, high quality care, with support from specialists across the Trust.

There are a variety of shift patterns available between the hours of 8am and 9pm, 7 days per week .

There are lots of development opportunities available to you as a community staff nurse to enable to progress your career and offering promotion to senior nurses or further study to become a qualified specialist practitioner or advanced practitioner, Along with other modes of study to enhance your skills in tissue viability or palliative care as a few examples.

Applicants must be able to regularly travel extensively across the district to meet the needs and demands of the service. The job will be based in City., Work as part of the district nursing team, providing a compassionate, responsive, and quality driven service to all BDCT service users and their carers.- Assess individuals and population needs which affect their health and social well-being, working collaboratively with to the district nurse caseload holder as and when appropriate.- Plan, implement and review programmes of health interventions for individuals and populations, in conjunction with other colleagues and agencies.- Enable/encourage patients and carers to develop their knowledge and understanding of their own health and well-being and to manage loss and change, and enabling self-management of condition wherever possible.- Develop, monitor, evaluate and review care delivery by the team, working collaboratively with the GP's and practice colleagues and other agencies.- Enable, encourage, and support individuals, families, groups and communities to address issues which affect their health and social wellbeing.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.