Community Nurse Team Leader

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Torquay; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Torquay is seeking a dedicated community nurse to provide individualized patient care, perform holistic assessments, and plan effective care strategies. The successful candidate will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver nursing care, support patient rehabilitation, and facilitate their independence. Key qualifications include a valid nursing qualification and a driving license, with an emphasis on providing high-quality care to housebound patients. This role promotes a supportive work environment and values staff development.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Health work/home life balance

Carer's Passport scheme

Qualifications

• Provide high quality care to housebound patients as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Evaluate and plan nursing needs in the community.
• Support the Zone Lead with management and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and deliver crisis response nursing interventions.
• Advise on health and wellbeing issues and self-care strategies.
• Coordinate the nursing service in absence of the Zone Nurse Lead.

Skills

Holistic nursing assessment

Specialist clinical advice

Driving licence

Autonomous practitioner

Care planning

Education

Qualified nurse

Job description

If you are passionate about providing high quality individualised patient care, enthusiastic about supporting patients’ rehabilitation and increasing their independence and quality of life we would like to hear from you. You will provide holistic nursing assessment, high quality care, support, advice, and information to patients and carers with the aim of maintaining patients in their own homes, enabling them to enjoy maximum independence and optimum quality of life. Ensure the effective co‑ordination and provision of the nursing service in the absence of the Zone Nurse Lead and to actively participate in the planning and discharge of complex patients from secondary to primary care. Working across the Intermediate Care and Community Nursing teams to provide crisis response nursing interventions, assessment, liaison, referral, co‑ordination, delegation of care, or placement, in order to prevent hospital admissions. Role requires driving licence as community based.

• To deliver high quality care to the housebound patients and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with primary care and secondary care.
• To provide specialist clinical advice to the multi-disciplinary team.
• To provide initial and ongoing assessment of nursing needs of patients and carers in the community. When planning a programme of care, physical, social and emotional and cultural factors are taken into consideration and suitably qualified staff used to facilitate the level of care agreed.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner in the planning and implementation of nursing treatment programmes.
• To advise and instruct carers and patients on health and wellbeing issues, and self‑care strategies.
• To carry out specialist and shared complex nursing assessments, to include continuing health care, medication review, prescribing and palliative care.
• To utilise a broad range of specialised nursing skills and knowledge aligning practice to the organisations Medicines Policy for Registered professionals and the NMC Standards for Medicines management (2007) ensuring assessment and competence is maintained and recorded as a nurse prescriber.
• Supporting the Zone Lead with staff supervision, appraisal's and sickness management.

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

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Working for Our Organisation

Torquay community nursing are a large but supportive team who enjoys mentoring team members and students and is passionate about delivering quality care to the housebound patients. We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality. We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a health work/home life balance.

Why Work With Us

You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high‑quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.

If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer‑friendly employer. We have a ‘Staff Carers’ policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer’s Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.

Important Information

• We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we encourage you to apply promptly.
• Please read the job description carefully and tailor your application to reflect the requirements of the role.
• Applicants who identify in their application form they are a part of the Armed Forces community will be guaranteed an interview, provided they meet the minimum essential criteria outlined in the job description and person specification for the role. Step into Health guidance can be found on our NHS Employers website.
• Correspondence will be sent via Trac, text, and email. Please ensure you check your email and Trac account regularly.
• Applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the band.
• If you have not received an invitation to interview within 28 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
• It is your responsibility to ensure the timely receipt of appropriate references.

The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.