Community Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust seeks a post-holder to manage a defined community caseload via Nursing, mental health, Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy within an Integrated Care Team. The role emphasizes autonomous professional accountability and high standards of patient safety and care at all times.

The post holder will work to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, support timely discharge into the community, and contribute to re-enablement, rehabilitation

Qualifications

• Role requires autonomous professional accountability and effective communication.
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary Integrated Care Team is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Act with compassion and deliver high-quality care with effective communication.
• Participate in holistic assessment and implementation of care plans for home-based patients.
• Provide safe medicines management following guidelines.
• Develop and maintain relationships with the multidisciplinary team to meet patient needs.
• Promote person-centred practice and challenge non-person-centred care to uphold the culture.
• Keep up to date with clinical developments to uphold care standards.
• Maintain safe and effective clinical skills and record keeping per trust policies.
• Demonstrate competence in clinically relevant procedures.
• Recognise limits in care provision and refer urgent needs appropriately.
• Ensure referrals are managed according to clinical need and assess care holistically.

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.

Main duties of the job

• Act at all times with compassion, to be committed to delivering high-quality care, use effective communication, be competent and have courage when needed.
• Participate in the holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and therapy for patients in the home, without direct supervision. This includes those with chronic disease, terminal illness who wish to die at home and complex care needs.
• Provide safe medicines management in your area, according to professional and organisational guidelines to ensure safety and efficacy.
• Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients' needs are met.
• Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice, which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained.
• Keep updated with relevant clinical developments and use knowledge to enhance standards of care.
• Practice and promote safe and effective skills in all aspects of clinical practice.
• Practice and promote safe and effective record keeping in line with trust policies and professional standards.
• Demonstrate competence and confidence in clinical practice: this includes all clinical procedures that are relevant/specialist to the area.
• Recognises own limitations in the provision of clinical care and urgency of patient's needs, referring to other healthcare professionals accordingly and is accountable for his/her own action.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence