Community Nurse

Mersey Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in the Liverpool area is seeking a registered adult nurse to join our District Nursing Teams across Liverpool Place on a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

You'll deliver nursing care in patients' homes and community settings, collaborate with GPs and allied services, and provide clinical leadership while maintaining patient-centered practice.

Flexible working options may be considered to support work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Adult) with UK NMC registration.
• Experience in community health settings preferred.
• Evidence of clinical governance and audit understanding.

Responsibilities

• Deliver competent nursing care in patients' homes and community settings.
• Provide leadership and support to the district nursing team.
• Collaborate with GPs and other services to plan care.
• Promote patient-centered care and safety in all interactions.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

IT literacy

Audit awareness

Clinical governance

Conflict resolution

Interpersonal skills

Education

Registered Nurse (Adult)

Job description

Job summary

Are you a registered nurse (adult) in need of a new challenge?

We are recruiting for District Nurses to join our District Nursing Teams, we will be recruiting for vacancies across Liverpool Place.

If you have ambition, commitment, and share our aim to deliver perfect care, we'd love to hear from you.

Fixed Term contract for 12 months

Main duties of the job

You will work collaboratively as part of a community health team to meet the needs of patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures and provide clinical leadership.

You will provide competent and skilled nursing care and advice to patients in their own homes and other community settings.

You will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values patients, service users and their carers ensuring they are at the centre of care and treatment planning.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

Community Services Division

This clinical division delivers community health services to people in their own homes, health centres and clinics, NHS walk-In centres and our older adults intermediate care ward at Aintree University Hospital site.

As well as the many community nursing services, this division delivers specialist dental health care, therapies, sexual health, medicines management and nutrition and dietetics services. Our teams work closely with GPs and other health and social care services to ensure patients are cared for with the best support, in or closer to their home.

Our services enable people to remain as independent as possible and many are delivered 24 hours, seven days a week.

Every year our staff deliver care to thousands of patients whilst talking to their families and carers. These hundreds of thousands of interactions mean that our staff are best placed to understand patients holistic health and social needs, including education, prevention and self care.

Please refer to the job descriptions attached for each of our divisions - you will be able to discuss your work area and location preference on the day of our recruitment event.

We are committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcome applications from applicants wishing to work part-time or with flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Practitioner

Desirable

• Assessor/teaching qualification or equivalent or equivalent work-based experience

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field

Desirable

• Clinical supervision experience

Skills

Essential

• Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies
• Understanding of audit process
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• IT literate
• Work as member of a team
• Ability to travel to work across boundaries

Desirable

• Understanding of local and national quality initiatives

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).