Community Staff Nurse

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust; North Kesteven; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in North Kesteven seeks a Community Staff Nurse to deliver person-centred nursing care in various settings. Responsibilities include assessing care needs, planning and delivering interventions, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. The role offers flexible working arrangements to accommodate personal commitments, making it an excellent opportunity for skilled nurses.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Ability to assess care needs and plan nursing care independently.
• Experience in delivering interventions and managing long-term conditions.
• Strong collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs and plan, deliver, and evaluate nursing care.
• Provide interventions such as wound management and palliative care.
• Collaborate with MDT to ensure coordinated patient care.

Skills

Autonomous working

Evidence based practice

Wound management

Palliative care

Medication administration

Job description

Overview

As a community staff nurse you will be required to work autonomously and as part of a team, delivering care to patients in their own homes, care homes and clinic settings. Successful candidates will be responsible for assessing care needs, and the planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care using innovative evidence based practice. Community nursing is exceptionally rewarding as it allows wonderful therapeutic relationships to be developed with patients in their own homes. Working in this capacity embodies the person centred care approach and allows patients to truly be at the centre of care delivery.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs and plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care using evidence based practice.
• Provide interventions such as wound management, continence care, palliative care, medication administration and long term condition management.
• Work closely with the MDT (Social Workers, GPs and Allied Health Professionals) to ensure coordinated patient care and positive impact on patients.

Working arrangements

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices to accommodate personal goals and commitments. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff balance personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

About Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.