Community Staff Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Bishop's Sutton; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking Community Staff Nurses for posts in Alresford and Colden Common. You will provide high-quality care across home and clinic settings, working with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability within a supportive team.

Responsibilities include managing a defined community caseload, coordinating referrals, and developing holistic care plans in line with Trust standards.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering community-based nursing in diverse settings.
• Ability to work with autonomy and professional accountability.
• Ability to record care plans and holistic assessments to the required standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coordinate and delegate work within a defined community caseload.
• Ensure referrals are dealt with according to clinical need and holistic assessments.
• Record care plans in line with Trust and Professional standards and maintain patient safety.
• Support timely discharge to the community and enable re-enablement and rehabilitation.

Skills

Wound care

Palliative care

End of life care

Autonomy

Clinical governance

Job description

We are looking to recruit Community Staff Nurses into our friendly, supportive team in Alresford and Colden Common. You can make that difference contributing to the provision of high-quality care within a variety of community settings, including patient's home and clinic settings.

Successful post holders will work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability, be committed to working within a generic competency framework enabling you to have the clinical skills to work as a valued member of the team. You will utilise a skill set in wound care, palliative care, end of lifecare as well as many others. Post holders will have responsibility for managing ,co-ordinating and delegating work ensuring referrals are dealt with according to clinical need and holistic assessments and care plans are recorded in line with Trust and Professional record keeping standards and clinical care at all times meets acceptable standards of patient safety and quality outcomes.

These are part or full time posts for 12 month fixed term contracts, Working within Professional guidelines and accountability, the post-holder will have responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload for a group of GP Practices as part of the Integrated Care Team.

The post holder will have responsibility for managing, co-ordinating and delegating work ensuring referrals are dealt with according to clinical need, holistic assessments and care plans are recorded in line with Trust and Professional record keeping standards and clinical care at all times meets acceptable standards of patient safety and quality outcomes.

The post holder will be required to work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability. A primary aim of the role is to prevent unnecessary admission of patients to an acute hospital and support timely discharge into the community. The post holder will also have a responsibility for re-enablement, rehabilitation, health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence