Care Home/Housebound Frailty Nurse

NHS; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Carlisle is seeking a registered nurse to provide comprehensive nursing care and support to patients. Candidates must have current NMC registration and possess strong assessment and evaluation skills. The role includes responsibilities like documenting consultations per guidelines, ensuring compliance with infection control protocols, and managing patient care strategies. This position offers both full-time and part-time opportunities depending on the candidate's experience as well as collaboration with a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration is mandatory for the role.
• Skills in assessment, intervention, and evaluation are critical.
• Experience in facilitating groups and risk management is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard nursing care to patients.
• Document consultations according to NMC guidelines.
• Ensure infection control guidelines are followed.

Skills

Assessment, intervention and evaluation skills

Excellent communication skills

Team working skills

Effective time management

Education

Current NMC registration

Job description

Job Summary

To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients, as well as providing nursing assistance to other members of the primary healthcare team. The duties will include all tasks normally undertaken by an experienced Band 6 or 7 (depending on experience) Nurse and any additional roles agreed between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current training.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating change by providing holistic assessment and lifestyle advice on diet, smoking, alcohol intake and exercise.
• Assessing and providing holistic assessment for long‑term condition and contributing to an MDT approach for patient care.
• Assessing problems presented opportunistically by patients, dealing with minor illness.
• Able to document consultations according to NMC guidelines.
• Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms of child/adult abuse.
• Perform venepuncture according to local guidelines.
• Provide a holistic approach to wound management and implement wound care in line with current evidence‑based guidelines.
• Suture removal.
• Take ECGs.
• Able to recognise and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK guidelines.
• Able to perform cardio‑pulmonary resuscitation according to current UK guidelines.
• Ability to obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written).
• Ability to carry out discussions and implement personalised care plans.
• Ability to discuss and implement DNACPR as necessary.
• Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained.
• Ability to monitor and manage maintenance of stock and equipment to include refrigeration, steriliser and emergency equipment.
• Confidentially preserve information gained at work at all times.

About Us

Carlisle Healthcare is a large NHS general practice partnership formed in 2016 following the merger of three established practices in the city. We operate over three sites and have a registered population of approximately 40,500 people. We are also a single practice Primary Care Network, embracing opportunities to innovate and redesign the delivery of comprehensive primary care.

Team Composition

• 18 GPs
• 12 ANPs
• Home visiting team (including ANPs, nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists, frailty co‑ordinators)
• Social prescribing link worker
• First contact physiotherapists
• Primary care mental health workers
• Clinical pharmacists
• 28 practice nurses and HCAs
• Senior management and administrative support teams

Locations

• Locke Road, Durranhill Industrial Estate, Carlisle, CA1 3UB
• North Carlisle Medical Centre, Eden Street, Carlisle, CA3 9JZ
• St. Pauls Square, Carlisle, CA1 1DG

Salary & Contract

Depends on experience – Permanent – Full‑time, Part‑time, Job share.

Reference Number

A1945‑25‑0008

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration.
• Assessment, intervention and evaluation skills in relevant clinical area.
• Knowledge of acute and recovery approaches to treatment.
• Supervisory approaches and skills.
• Current knowledge of interventions/practice/models and evidence‑based practice.
• Government policies and legislation and their effects on practice.
• Risk assessment/management.
• Excellent and effective communication skills.
• Facilitating a range of groups.
• Anti‑oppressive practice.
• User involvement and advocacy.
• Person‑centred approaches.
• Independent working skills.
• Effective time management.
• Team working skills.
• Empathic, open, honest and non‑judgmental manner.
• Keep accurate records in clinical notes and complete regular returns as required.
• Able to actively involve service users in service delivery.
• Demonstrable commitment to professional development.

Additional Information

UK registration required. Disclosure and Barring Service check required. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

Employer Contacts

Website: https://www.carlislehealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)