Community Staff Nurse

Sussexcommunity; Worthing; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community healthcare provider is seeking a Community Staff Nurse in Worthing. The role focuses on delivering high-quality patient care in homes, with responsibilities across various specialties such as wound management and palliative care. Candidates should be registered nurses with strong clinical skills and a commitment to community health.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Excellent training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a community setting is essential.
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies is required.
• IT literate or willing to achieve literacy in agreed time.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality care to patients in their homes.
• Participate in a team supporting evidence-based care.
• Work towards rehabilitation, self-management, and independence.

Skills

Good communication skills

Good numeracy and literacy skills

Wound management

Motivational interviewing skills

Clinical governance knowledge

Education

RN qualification / degree or diploma

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Staff Nurse to join Central Worthing community PCN.

The PCN is a group of practices working together in collaboration with community and other health and care services. PCNs will enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Care is organised around individuals' identified needs through collaborative working by service providers to deliver excellent patient care at the heart of the community.

Worthing Central Community PCN Team are looking for registered nurses to join the team. If you are newly registered or looking for a new challenge, Community Nursing offers a great opportunity to specialise in a highly diverse and rewarding field.Community nursing offers the applicants many specialties in one role.Any successful applicants will have an individual induction plan to ease into this community environment.

Any applicants requiring visa sponsorship, please check the UK eligibilityand immigration rules before application, and a Full UK driving licence is essential.

We actively support applications from our Armed Forces communities, including serving personnel, veterans and military families.

Main duties of the job

To deliver high quality care in the community in patients own homes, working with patients towards rehabilitation, self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care. To participate in a team of colleagues supporting evidence based care, facilitating staff learning and development.

The main aspects of the role are diabetic management, wound management including leg ulcer diagnosis and treatment, palliative care working very closely with the Hospice and GP's, bladder and bowel care including urethral and supra pubic catheters and other continence needs.As well as the traditional type of patients as stated above, we work in partnership with the local health and social providers covering a specific group of people under frailty. This group includes Severely Frail (score based), Dementia diagnosis, End of Life, Complex Conditions and Care Home Patients.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job responsibilities

To deliver high quality care in the community, working with patients towards rehabilitation, self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care.

To participate in a team of colleagues supporting evidence based care, facilitating staff learning and development.

Please see job description for further information.

Person Specification

Qualification

• RN qualification / degree or diploma
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies

Experience

• Experience in a community setting

Skills and Knowledge

• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills e.g. wound management, catheterisation skills, medicines management and administration, palliative and end of life care including management of syringe drivers.
• Is able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
• Knowledge of current local policies informing community health and social care services
• A clear understanding of the role of the Community Staff Nurse
• Promote independence and choice in undertaking patient care
• IT literate or willing to achieve within an agreed period
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision, Professional codes of Conduct
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge/ understanding of boundaries of role
• Motivational interviewing skills

Other requirements

• Demonstrates abillity to reflect and learn from situations
• Demonstrates a commitment to life-long learning and development/competency framework
• Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
• Demonstrates a high level of understanding of self and able to identify personal limitation, shows openess to address them
• Ability to travel between sites, car owner and driver with access to a vehicle for work
• An understanding of the principles of equal opportunities in relation to staff and patients

Must Hold a full UK driving license & access to a car.

• Full UK license

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£29,970 to £36,483 a yearper annum/pro rata