Community Nurse

Wight Healthcare; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Wight Healthcare in the United Kingdom is recruiting for a post-holder to manage a defined community caseload across GP practices as part of the Integrated Care Team. The role involves working within professional guidelines and taking responsibility for clinical governance, with nursing, mental health, physiotherapy or occupational therapy interventions.

You will coordinate and delegate work, ensure referrals meet clinical need, and record holistic assessments and care plans in line with

Job description

Working within Professional guidelines and accountability, the post-holder will have responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload (via Nursing, mental health, Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy interventions) for a group of GP Practices as part of the Integrated Care Team.

The post holders will have responsibility for managing co-ordinating and delegating work ensuring referrals are dealt with according to clinical need, holistic assessments and care plans are recorded in line with Trust and Professional record keeping standards and clinical care at all times meets acceptable standards of patient safety and quality outcomes.

The post holders will be required to work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability. A primary aim of the role is to prevent unnecessary admission of patients to an acute hospital and support timely discharge into the community. The post holder will also have a responsibility for re-enablement, rehabilitation, health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities.