Community Staff Nurse

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Princes Risborough; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous annual leave

NHS pension

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an aspiring individual to develop experience as a District Nurse in the Thame/Princes Risborough area on a 12-month maternity cover contract. You will join a newly formed community nursing team, with strong support for a preceptorship and professional development in autonomous practice.

You will work within a locality team, providing holistic care to complex patients at home and in residential settings, with opportunities to advance in this

Qualifications

• Commitment to ongoing professional development to enhance practice.
• Experience with electronic clinical systems such as RIO.
• Post- or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas.

Responsibilities

• Provide community nursing care in patients' homes and residential settings.
• Deliver end-of-life care and manage deteriorating patients.
• Perform venepuncture, wound care, and dressings including compression therapy.
• Work with district nurse team leaders and allied professionals to meet complex patient needs.

Skills

Professional development

Electronic systems (RIO)

Tools

RIO

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to develop experience in the specialised area of District Nursing. This opportunity is now available in the Thame/ Princes Risborough area - 12 months contract to cover for Maternity leave. You will be supported to become a Community Nurse within a newly formed team. We are welcoming highly motivated and effective team players, committed to providing a high quality nursing service within the District Nursing field. We are able to offera full skills development and preceptorship programme. We are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a change in direction, we would welcome your application for this exciting opportunity to join the community nursing workforce. As a community nurse, you would be supported to develop into an autonomous practitioner; nursing patients with multiple complex health care needs in their own home., Community nursing is a specialised area of practice. As a Community Staff Nurse, you will work within a locality team of District Nurse Team Leaders, Community Staff Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Healthcare Assistants, to meet the needs of the complex patient in the community and avoid admissions to acute settings. This includes medication administration, end of life care, managing the deteriorating patient, complex and simple wound care including negative pressure wound therapy and compression therapy, venepuncture, utilising advanced assessment skills and clinical nursing skills. We nurse people with a variety of conditions in a holistic manner in their own home and in residential care settings. Community nurses work in close partnership with social care and other primary health care professionals such as GP's, Community Therapies and specialised services such as Tissue Viability, Diabetes and Heart Failure., For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert. If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

• Committed to own professional development to enhance practice
  Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: ? Care of Elderly ? Community ? Orthopaedics ? Neurology ? Respiratory ? Palliative Care ? Long term conditions, Desirable but not essential knowledge of working with a single assessment, planning and the delivery of care.
• Experience of electronic clinical systems and technology e.g. RIO, Post registration education and extended skills e.g. Intravenous drug administration, compression dressings.
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We'recommitted to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity withinourBHT familyimprovespositive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.