Community Nurse

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN12-NMC) to assess, plan and deliver patient care within the team, while remaining professionally and legally accountable.

You will support peers and the team leader, manage workload, deputise in the absence, delegate to health care assistants as needed and ensure risk is managed in line with Trust protocols, maintaining accurate records for audit and safeguarding high-quality care.

Job description

The post holder will be a Registered Nurse (RN12-NMC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable. The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively support and liaise with other health and social care professionals and agencies., To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to day allocation of work. To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to health care assistants. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register. To supervise pre-registration students. To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that our patients …