Community Staff Nurse - Evening & Nights

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Nottingham is seeking an Evening and Night Nurse to join their established team. The role involves providing urgent nursing care in patients' homes, ensuring safety and effective patient outcomes. Candidates should possess a relevant degree, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work flexibly. This permanent, full-time position offers a salary range of £31,049 to £37,796, alongside a commitment to staff well-being.

Qualifications

• Maintains current registration with the NMC.
• Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.
• Ability to work as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver good clinical outcomes for patients in partnership with day services.
• Provide education and supervision to junior staff.
• Maintain accurate, timely clinical records.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Good communication skills

Flexibility

Diplomatic and caring attitude

IT skills

Education

Professional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities/General)

Job description

We are seeking a new Evening and Night nurse to work in an already established team, we have vacancies in both the North/South Nottinghamshire team. We cover south Nottinghamshire (Rushcliffe/ Nottingham North/East, Nottingham West), North Nottinghamshire (Mansfield/Ashfield/Newark/Sherwood) and Bassetlaw, working closely with our Urgent Community Response teams ensuring the right clinician attends the right urgent response during the evening and night-time, to maintain safety, and deliver nursing care when needed.

Our service is fast paced during the out of hours period with a 2-4-hour response time, covering the nursing elements within the UCR clinical conditions. This includes urgent end of life care, continence care, catheter care, wound care needs overnight.

As the service transforms, and we are looking for dynamic, autonomous, practitioners with excellent communication skill, that can be confident, organised, adaptable, reliable, and approachable. You'll be working independently in patients' homes. You will collaborate with UCR services and the out of hours GP provider and ensuring the right team is attending the patient to fulfil their urgent nursing needs.

Our team is mixed with nurses and community support workers, working in in partnership with the community nursing day teams and UCR to provide a seamless nursing service to patients 6pm- 8am, putting the patient at the centre of their care and provide effective patient care.

Main duties of the job

The objective of our evening and nights service is to deliver good clinical outcomes for patients in partnership with day services and UCR across the whole health community to co-ordinate a shared care approach for patients across primary and community care, so that duplication is avoided, and resources are effectively managed to provide timely access. The main focus is admission avoidance to proactively identify patients who are at risks of hospital admissions or readmission and provide support and care to patients and their families during the out of hours period.

You will assess, plan, implement, promote and evaluate safe, creative and effective treatment plans in collaboration with the patient's diverse needs, their carers and other professionals

You will provide a realistic timely and occasionally intensive support to patients within a community setting.

You will provide education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals

Interventions will be evidence based and designed to reduce stress and anxiety, manage risk and aid recovery

You will maintain accurate, timely and relevant clinical records both written and computerized. To maintain the safe custody of healthcare record

The post holder will need to be flexible and work across servicers as required

About us

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

Person Specification

Essential: Professional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities/General) to degree level or equivalent. Maintains current registration with the NMC

• Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Good written/oral communication skills
• Ability to be flexible and handle conflict issues
• Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care
• IT skills
• Diplomatic, caring & sympathetic

Desirable: Specialist and area specific experience. Awareness of national and local issues impacting of nursing care

Contract Details

Pay scheme: Agenda for change. Band: Band 5. Salary: £31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum (pro rata for part time). Contract: Permanent. Working pattern: Full-time.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.