Community Staff Nurse - Out of Hours

We are looking for an enthusiastic band 5 community staff nurse, to work with the OOH District nursing service 3 nights per week.

You will join a team of nurses delivering high quality care to patients who are housebound.

You will be caring for patients with long term conditions and complex health needs, developing your skills and knowledge, whilst working towards an integrated healthcare structure. You should be able to demonstrate you can make clinical decisions to provide evidence-based practice and care planning in response to clinical assessments.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will perform holistic assessments of patient nursing needs. Plan, assess, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health needs utilising prescribing skills.

Ensure practice is evidence based through undertaking audit and critically appraising literature to achieve a high standard of care.

The post holder actively supports the District Nursing team by undertaking responsibility for a delegated caseload.

Liaise with the District Nurse team leader to ensure information sharing in relation to patient care / changes to care plan and the continuity of care and reviewing of complex care packages.

Mentoring, Teaching and Assessing.

Liaises with all health care professionals and other agencies to ensure effective service delivery.

Involve patients and carers in the planning and delivery of care.

Maintain accurate records in accordance with NMC Standards.

To participate in the health needs assessment of the practice population to identify areas of unmet need.

Ability to work without direct supervision and to solve problems.

Work on a rota basis to facilitate weekend working across the district nursing teams

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.

At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.

They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.

After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them

Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.

P- Person-centred-We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide..

E- Empowered- We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.

O- Open and Honest -We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.

P- Professional-We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.

L- Locally Lead -We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.

E- Efficient -We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.