Community Band 5 Staff Nurse, Rapid Response

Community Band 5 Staff Nurse, Rapid Response

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dedicated NMC Adult Registered Community Nurse to join our Rapid Response Nursing team.

Our service operates 24 hours, 7 days a week to offer nursing interventions to patients living in their own homes. We work in an integrated way with health and care providers to ensure that care is joined up. We strive to care for acutely unwell patients at home, helping them to maintain independence and ensuring that high quality care is delivered in an efficient and holistic manner.

You will play an integral role in the development of the service as we are working innovatively to continually improve our outcomes for patients and our experience for staff in delivering care.

This post would be suitable for newly qualified nurses or those with years of experience. We offer an extensive and supportive preceptorship programme with enhanced support for nurses working within our community environment to ensure you receive the best support into your community nursing career.

Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to travel independently across a large geographical area and ideally hold a valid driving licence and have access to a car for work purposes.

You will be expected to work on a rota basis covering 24/7 shift patterns, but we will, where possible, offer flexible working options.

Main duties of the job

As a community nurse, you will be able to demonstrate your passion and ability to assess, plan, provide, and evaluate evidence-based nursing care for patients experiencing a wide range of conditions.

As part of this role, you will be expected to:

• Provide IV antibiotics, line care, wound care, IM/SC injections, Peg Feeds, Venepuncture, Cannulation, Palliative care, as well as all general nursing skills within the patient home to prevent hospital admissions or facilitate early discharges.
• Support our patients and work with people in an asset-based way that really enables them to live their optimum life, being self-caring and independent with their health needs where possible.
• Work collaboratively, efficiently, and creatively with multi-professional colleagues and partners with a focus on helping patients to avoid hospital admissions and, where they do need a hospital stay, facilitating timely and well-supported discharge back home.
• Handle referrals received from professional clinicians, e.g., ambulance services, GPs, Hospital staff.
• Work towards future development in physical assessment qualification.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI, and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rate
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Job responsibilities

Because we are an innovative, integrated community service covering the East Staffordshire area, including the Burton Town area, Uttoxeter, and the surrounding villages, we work closely across the nursing teams, AHPs including Podiatry, Physio, Falls Team, Stroke and Rehab team including our out-of-hours service, to ensure that our patients are at the centre of the care provided. We collaboratively deliver our care across all the professions, recognising the importance of a patient-centred approach, working together across all the nursing and therapy teams.

We pride ourselves on our strong leadership, innovation, prevention, and implementation of the care within the living model in all our patient care. We ensure that all MPFT's values and behaviours are entwined and embedded within our staff, teams, and our patient-centred care. We support the development and learning of all staff, having great links with our local universities, while also priding ourselves on growing our own staff and the leaders of the future.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in nursing or equivalent
• Registration with NMC
• Working towards Mentorship qualification (998-997)

Experience

• Relevant experience/placements to the role including assessment and management of long-term conditions, palliative care conditions, and wound care
• Ability to manage time and caseload effectively
• Supporting service users, families, and carers in dealing with people with nursing needs
• Working in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience in the delivery of healthcare
• Relevant placements including surgical, medical, palliative care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust