Community Staff Nurse Ambulatory Clinics

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Draycott in the Moors; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a community nurse to provide holistic care to patients in various clinics. Candidates should possess skills in wound care and medication administration while working both autonomously and in collaboration with a team. The position offers excellent benefits including an NHS pension, generous leave, and support for career development.

Benefits

NHS Pension scheme

Career development support

Generous annual leave

Flexible working options

Mileage pay

Free flu vaccinations

Qualifications

• Experience in community nursing and providing direct patient care.
• Commitment to holistic care and teamwork within a community setting.

Responsibilities

• Promote independence and support patient-centred care planning.
• Provide care directly to patients with nursing needs.
• Work autonomously, documenting and escalating patient information as needed.

Skills

Patient-centred care

Wound care

Medication administration

Bladder and bowel management

Complex tissue viability

Autonomous work

Team collaboration

Job description

Responsibilities

Working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and colleagues to:

• Promote independence and support patient‑centred care planning.
• Provide care directly to patients on the caseload with a range of nursing needs (including palliative care, complex wound care, pelvic health, medication administration).
• Work autonomously, in line with your scope of practice, competence and policies.
• Handover patient information to the wider team, document patient information effectively.
• Escalate patient needs as appropriate.

About the Team

We are a well‑established, supportive and friendly Community Nursing team excited to be offering a great opportunity in Ambulatory and Wound Care Clinics. We have a vacancy available within our Seisdon locality clinics.

You will have a commitment to providing holistic care to patients in a clinic setting, be able to work on your own initiative and work well within a team. Key clinical skills include complex tissue viability issues, wound care, bladder and bowel management, compression therapy as well as medication administration.

Within the community we are seeing more complex and acute patients than ever before, with increasingly specialist treatment and care being provided by highly skilled staff. Working within our Community Nursing Ambulatory Team you will support, assess, and treat patients with a variety of health needs, delivering high quality, evidence‑based practice.

Due to the nature of community working, the ability to travel across the patch to alternative clinics or patients' own home is essential.

Benefits

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme.
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Options for flexible working.
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres). Mileage paid at lease car rate.
• Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres). Your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rate.
• Free flu vaccinations every year.
• And more.

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like‑minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.