Community Nurse

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting District Nurses to join our District Nursing Teams across Liverpool Place. This fixed-term 12-month role offers the opportunity to deliver compassionate, patient-centred care in patients' homes and community settings. Flexible working options may be considered to support work-life balance.

The role requires commitment to our core values and collaboration with GPs and social care services to ensure high-quality care in the community.

Qualifications

• Registered Practitioner with current NMC registration
• Evidence of clinical experience in the relevant district nursing field
• Assessor/teaching qualification or equivalent (desirable)
• Clinical supervision experience (desirable)
• Understanding of local and national quality initiatives (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Work with the community health team to meet patients' needs and provide clinical leadership.
• Provide competent nursing care and advice to patients in their homes and community settings.
• Ensure patients and carers are central to care and treatment planning.
• Support district nursing services and flexible working arrangements as needed.

Skills

Registered Practitioner

Clinical governance

Audit

Communication

Organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Conflict resolution

IT literate

Teamwork

Travel to work

Education

Assessor/teaching qualification

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main 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.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Practitioner

Desirable criteria

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

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field

Desirable criteria

• Clinical supervision experience

Skills

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

• Understanding of local and national quality initiatives

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.