Senior Community Nurse

Are you ready for a new challenge? Could you make a difference?, An exciting opportunity has come up for the Adult Community Night Nursing Service for a Band 6 Community Nurse to work across the Richmond area. The service operates from 1900 hours until 0700 hours across Richmond borough and the vacancy is two night shifts a week.

As a senior community nurse you will assist the Community Team Manager in the management of a designated caseload, ensuring that holistic assessments are undertaken by a competent practitioner within the nursing team.

The Trust is passionate in developing the staff by providing a robust and comprehensive training programme to build your nursing career. Trainings on offer are the following: District Nursing specialist training sponsorship, V150/300 Non-Medical Prescriber, Physical assessment, Leadership and Management Programme, and band 6 developmental training amongst other things.

Get your career in the right direction, with the right organisation and at the right time - please come to KRFT and be part of this organisation.

Main duties of the job

To support the Locality Nursing Team Manager in the delivery of the locality nursing service in line with the commissioned service specification, standards, activity and outcomes, in the context of multi-disciplinary locality working.

Assisting the Locality Nursing Team Manager to provide line management and leadership for the community nursing team, being accountable for the team caseload and the development of a skilled, competent and motivated workforce, able to meet the needs of the patients on the caseload

Take a lead for a specific area of nursing practice, as a delegated responsibility, to ensure that less experienced nurses have access to best practice knowledge and expertise to inform and support their clinical practice.

Deputise in the absence of the Locality Nursing Team Manager , and undertake delegated tasks as development opportunities for succession planning.

This will involve working independently

Interested in developing your nursing career?

Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care?

Compassionate towards patients and their families?

An excellent communicator with the ability to lead and motivate a team?

Highly motivated, energetic and innovative with full UK driving license holder with access to a car?

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It's personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It's the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It's simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.

In 2018, we were named'Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction'by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.

Infection Control

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.