Community Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting District Nurses to join our District Nursing Teams across Liverpool Place. You will work within a community health team to deliver high-quality nursing care in patients' homes and community settings.

You will collaborate with GPs and other health and social care professionals, uphold policies and procedures, and provide clinical leadership. Flexible working requests will be considered to support your work-life balance and patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse (adult)
• District Nursing experience desirable
• Flexible working requests considered

Responsibilities

• Meet the needs of patients in their own homes and community settings.
• Provide competent and skilled nursing care and advice to patients.
• Work collaboratively as part of a community health team and support policy/procedure delivery.

Job description

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

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.

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.

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 closerto 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.