Senior Staff Nurse (fixed term)

The Integrated Care Homes Service is looking for Band 6 Senior Staff Nurses to join the service. For registered nurses (two years post graduation along with community nursing experience) who are looking to further their career and develop new skills in leadership., As a Registered Nurse, you will provide nursing interventions to a wide range of patients, by in reaching into Nottingham City Care Homes to deliver NHS services. The services overarching aim is to ensure that care home residents and staff have an improved experience through high quality care and access to familiar health professionals with the skills to meet their needs. This includes providing support to the staff within a care home setting in developing a plan of care for the patient.

The successful candidates will be required to have up to date clinical knowledge and skills and will be required to work autonomously, using initiative to deliver nursing care within a supportive team environment. They will be working with a diverse population providing support and nursing care to people who have complex health problems, with the aim to maintain and maximise their independence and prevent avoidable hospital admissions. You will be supported to learn and develop the skills required for this role.

Main duties of the job

To find out more about the Senior Nurses role within this service we would urge you to come and shadow us for a day to see what we do and the benefits we can make to a patients life.

The role of the Senior Staff Nurse is to provide nursing interventions to patients whose home is within a residential care home. This includes insulin administration, wound care, continence care, palliative support and EOL care.

As a SSN within this integrated service, you will be working closely with colleagues from dementia outreach and physical therapy facilitating your development of new skills and knowledge across all the elements of the service to enable a holistic approach to patient care, improving the patient outcomes.

The SSNs will work across Nottingham City supporting the 3 District Nurse Team Leaders with their caseload management, and staff supervisions. Whilst providing a high level of clinical support and guidance to junior staff and students

The service plays a key role in implementing the Enhanced Care in Care Homes Framework by providing support to care home staff, enabling them to deliver optimal care to their residents. This includes supporting staff within the care home setting to upskill and empower them to deliver optimal care to their residents. As well as developing communication pathways within care homes to enable proactive care and prevent avoidable hospital admissions.

We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and care partners to achieve this. We are a value driven, people business with a passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference everyday to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently deliver high quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to make a difference in peoples lives.

CityCare value the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.