Band 5 Community Staff Nurse West Unplanned Team

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

The Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse for the West Unplanned Team. This role involves responding to urgent issues in patients' homes with a dynamic district nursing team and requires a full driving licence and access to a car.

You will deliver holistic care, including palliative care, catheter care, wound management and diabetes care, across the west locality.

Qualifications

• Experience in community/nurse home visits.
• Ability to manage diverse health needs in home settings.
• Competence in fundamental nursing procedures in community care.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care in patients' homes as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and evaluate health needs to support independence and wellbeing.
• Respond quickly to urgent patient needs and coordinate with planned teams.
• Support areas including palliative care, catheter care, wound management and diabetes.

Skills

Home visiting

Palliative care

Diabetes care

Catheter care

Job description

Band 5 Community Staff Nurse West Unplanned Team

Company:

Company: Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust

A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Community-based working.Will need driving licence & access to a car.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our excellent unplanned district nursing team.

It has a dynamic and innovative approach to Nursing care.

It involves quick responses to patients in their own homes to manage and respond to urgent issues.

We are looking for a highly motivated applicant who is interested in meeting the challenge of working on the community with patients in the home setting. You will be working with a variety of disciplines within the multidisciplinary team to achieve the best outcomes for patients to ensure their independence and well being. The post holder will carry out a variety of nursing duties as part of the patients holistic care management through the assessment and evaluation of health needs particularly in the areas of palliative care, catheter care, wound management and diabetes.

The successful candidate will need to hold a full driving licence and have access to a car for work purposes as they will be expected to visit patients across the west locality of Birmingham.

Responding quickly to patientswith a variety of health needs.

This involves problem solving, liaising with the planned teams and the multi-disciplinary teams and providing nursing care to achievebest outcomes for patients.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

The service operates between the hours of 8 am to 6pm over 7 days per week and the working pattern for the successful candidate will include weekend working and bank holiday periods. This post requires the successful candidates to be highly mobile so requires a full driving license and car available for work.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust