Community Nurse: Band 5 to Band 6 Development

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health organization in Milton Keynes seeks a qualified nurse to provide essential nursing care in the community. You will collaborate with District Nurses and GPs to deliver care tailored to patients' needs. Candidates must be NMC registered and hold a full driving licence. The position involves flexible working hours within the community, essential for shaping future healthcare responses.

Benefits

Flexible working

Buy & Sell Annual Leave

Attractive pension scheme

Employee Assistance programme

Physio Med services

Staff Wellbeing Zone

Qualifications

• Knowledge of current community nursing issues.
• Sound clinical knowledge relative to experience gained.
• NMC Code of Conduct compliance.
• Basic infection control issues and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled nursing intervention/care to patients of any age or condition.
• Undertake delegated duties under supervision of the District Nurse.
• Take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the District Nurse.
• Maintain liaison with the District Nurse, GP and other primary care team members.

Skills

Sound practical skills

Ability to work unsupervised

Ability to work under pressure

Ability to teach others

Education

Current UK NMC Level 1 Registered Nurse

Evidence of other professional training, eg. ENB 998

Job description

Job Overview

Are you looking for the next steps in your nursing career?

Are you passionate about Making a difference to patients’ lives?

If ‘yes’ then there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us!

Here at our District Nursing service no day is ever the same. As a well established Community Service, we care for patients with complex needs providing highly skilled assessments and support within their own home environment.

The role will involve working within a team of experienced Community Nurses and working in partnership with multiple stakeholders and voluntary services to provide the best care to our community and shape the future of healthcare across Milton Keynes.

We are looking for nurses who can think on their feet and thrive on the challenges the working day can bring. You will be joining our team of highly motivated proactive professionals to continue our goal of developing our service beyond the traditional scope of nursing in response to the challenging health care needs that we are facing nationally.

The hours of the District nursing Service are 9am – 5pm, 7 days a week including bank holidays, with a view to move the service hours to 9am – 8pm.

Driving licence and use of a car is essential.

Main duties of the job

• Post holder to demonstrate professional and clinical evidence based knowledge acquired through Level 1 registration.
• Post holder will have developed a wide range of practical nursing skills which are demonstrated with dexterity and accuracy.
• To work with the District Nurse to provide skilled patient care to patients and their families in their own homes or other settings as appropriate.
• For the majority of the time the post holder will work independently and without direct supervision and will have the ability to prioritise a changing workload.
  
  

Working for our organisation

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

In return we can offer:

• flexible working
• Buy & Sell Annual Leave
• An attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits for dependants; ill health retirement benefits; and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay).
• Employee Assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life
• Staying Well at Work service for tailored employment related support to staff with severe and long term mental health problems
• Physio Med: an education zone, advice line and treatment service for staff
• Staff Wellbeing Zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
• The Recovery College: offers a range of health and wellbeing courses for staff
• A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) Network Disabled Employees Network
• Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network
• Carers at Work Network
• Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BAME)
• Salary sacrifice
  
  

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Provides skilled nursing intervention/care to patients of any age or condition in partnership with the District Nurse and the clinical direction of the General Practitioners within the management structure of the employing
• Undertakes delegated duties for the caseload holder under the supervision of the District Nurse on duty who is covering the
• Takes responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the District Nurse including new visits/assessments, workload management and allocation, dealing with referrals,
• Maintains close liaison with the District Nurse, GP and other members of the primary care team and wider health and social care
• Applies current Infection Control Policy issues and universal
• Encourages patients towards self care
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current UK NMC Level 1 Registered Nurse
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of other professional training, eg. ENB 998
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge and understanding of current community nursing issues
• Sound clinical knowledge relative to experience gained
• NMC Code of Conduct
• Basic infection control issues and procedures
  
  

Key skills

Essential criteria

• Sound practical skills.
• Ability to work unsupervised.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to teach others, eg. staff, patients
  
  

Desirable criteria

• IT skills
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of a wide range of clinical experience
• Experience as a Community RGN Band 5.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post registration experience
  
  

Others

Essential criteria

• Full driving licence and use of car for work purposes