Community Staff Nurse

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our District Nursing Team within Lichfield and Burntwood PCN as a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse., As part of this role you will have responsibility for a defined caseload of patients to provide care directly to patients on the caseload with a range of nursing needs (including palliative care, complex wound care, pelvic health, medication administration). Working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and colleagues to promote independence and support patient centred care planning. You will be expected to:

• Deliver care to patients who are in their own homes or residential homes, and or delivery of care to patients within a clinic setting where these are available and appropriate.
• Be responsible for Patients in a variety of settings across the Trust including the community and hospitals.
• Be skilled in the assessment of care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.
• Work autonomously, in line with your scope of practice, competence and policies.
• Handover patient information to the wider team, document patient information effectively.
• Escalation of patients' needs as appropriate.
  
  We are looking for a passionate Community Staff Nurse with demonstrable advanced clinical skills who is innovative, motivated and enthusiastic with excellent communication and organisational skills.
You will have a commitment to providing holistic care to patients in their own homes, be able to work on your own initiative and work well within a team. Key clinical skills include both simple and complex wound care, including management of various types of drainage systems, bladder and bowel management, palliative and end of life care as well as medication administration. Within the community we are seeing more complex and acute patients than ever before, with increasingly specialist treatment and care being provided by highly skilled staff. Working within our Community Nursing Team you will support, assess and treat patients with a variety of health needs, delivering high quality care in line with evidence based practice. This will be supported with ability to complete robust record keeping. Due to the nature of community working, ability to travel across the patch to provide care to patients is essential.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.