Community Nurse

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Bromsgrove; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave up to 33 days

NHS pension

Enhanced pay for unsocial hours

Flexible working

Parental leave support

Staff networks

Wellbeing opportunities

Job summary

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking a Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Team in Bromsgrove. The role involves visiting patients at home, providing high-quality nursing, therapy and discharge support, and collaborating with GPs, therapists and healthcare staff.

The post offers flexible working options and a strong emphasis on patient-centered care, with opportunities for professional development and supervision within a supportive team.

Responsibilities

• Administer insulin to diabetic patients during home visits
• Support end-of-life care to ensure gold-standard provision
• Dress leg ulcers and manage post-operative wounds
• Change catheters and flush central lines as needed
• Attend handover and discuss complex clinical situations with MDT

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Team in Bromsgrove. This will give you the rewarding opportunity to provide optimal care to patients in their own home. Shift patterns are between 07.30-18.30. Flexible working opportunities are available and we would welcome you to discuss these options at interview. The teams consist of Community Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Healthcare Assistants and admin staff with GP, paramedic and social care colleagues working closely alongside. This enables the teams deliver planned nursing, therapy and admission avoidance/supported hospital discharge interventions to the adult patient population of Redditch and the surrounding areas. A typical day as community nurse may start with greeting a diabetic patient and administering their insulin, followed by supporting patients at the end of their life to ensure gold standard care is delivered. You may then visit a few patients to dress a leg ulcer or post op wound, followed by changing a catheter to flushing a patient's central line. Following a morning of visits you will return to the office for your team handover, this gives you the opportunity to discuss complex situations with your colleagues and undertake clinical supervision. You may then be called out to an urgent care response visit where a patient needs to be seen and assessed within 2 hours. No day is the same within the community and each day is as rewarding as the next, whether you've healed a leg ulcer or given a patient the best possible care at the end of their life. One thing we promise you is that community nursing is never boring!

We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible team player with a strong, quality driven patient focus and an ability to work through change to embed new ways of delivering care. The successful candidate will have experience in working within a multi-disciplinary team. In return we offer a great team environment, learning and development opportunities and supervision support. Due to the nature of the posts the applicant must be able to travel independently.

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites. We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities