Community Staff Nurse - Thame

Bidvane; Thame; Remote; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Pension

Generous annual leave

Learning and development

Job summary

Bidvane is seeking a Community Staff Nurse to join the District Nursing locality team serving Thame and Princes Risborough. The role provides nursing care at patients' homes and in residential settings, including wound care, medication administration, and end-of-life support.

You will work with primary care and social care partners, develop skills through preceptorship, and may be on secondment with endorsement from your line manager. Driving is required to travel between Trust locations.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or student nurse awaiting confirmation of NMC registration.
• Post-registration or pre-registration placement experience in relevant clinical areas: care of older people, community, orthopaedics, neurology, respiratory, palliative care or long-term conditions.
• Driving licence and car ownership; able to travel to other Trust locations

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic nursing care to people with a range of conditions in their own homes and residential settings
• Deliver medication administration, end-of-life care and care for deteriorating patients
• Provide simple and complex wound care, including negative pressure wound therapy and compression therapy
• Undertake venepuncture and use advanced assessment and clinical nursing skills
• Work with the locality team to meet complex community care needs and help avoid acute admissions
• Work in partnership with social care, GPs, Community Therapies and specialist services including Tissue Viability, Diabetes and Heart Failure
• Travel to other locations within the Trust

Skills

English communication

NMC Code knowledge

Ability to work under pressure

Education

NMC registration or student nurse awaiting confirmation

Job description

The Community Staff Nurse post sits within the District Nursing locality team serving Thame and Princes Risborough. It provides nursing for people with complex needs in their homes and residential settings, including wound care, medication, end-of-life support and assessment, while working with primary care and social care partners. The newly formed team offers skills development and preceptorship; internal applicants may apply on secondment with their line manager’s endorsement. Applicants need NMC registration, or to be a student nurse awaiting confirmation, and must drive, own a car and travel to other Trust locations.

What the job involves

• Provide holistic nursing care to people with a range of conditions in their own homes and residential settings
• Deliver medication administration, end-of-life care and care for deteriorating patients
• Provide simple and complex wound care, including negative pressure wound therapy and compression therapy
• Undertake venepuncture and use advanced assessment and clinical nursing skills
• Work with the locality team to meet complex community care needs and help avoid acute admissions
• Work in partnership with social care, GPs, Community Therapies and specialist services including Tissue Viability, Diabetes and Heart Failure
• Travel to other locations within the Trust

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or student nurse awaiting confirmation of NMC registration

Registration & licences

• NMC registration

Experience

• Post-registration or pre-registration placement experience in relevant clinical areas: care of older people, community, orthopaedics, neurology, respiratory, palliative care or long-term conditions

Skills & knowledge

• Effective communication in English with patients, relatives, carers and professionals
• Care for patients without prejudice relating to gender, religion or disability
• Knowledge of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and the Data Protection Act
• Work under pressure; self-aware, self-motivated and enthusiastic

Checks & eligibility

• Driving licence and car ownership; able to travel to other Trust locations

Nice to have

• Knowledge of single assessment, care planning and care delivery
• Experience using electronic clinical systems and technology such as RIO
• Commitment to professional development to enhance practice
• Post-registration education and extended skills, such as intravenous drug administration or compression dressings

What’s offered

• Learning and development opportunities for career progression
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Generous annual leave
• Pension
• NHS discount schemes
• Health and wellbeing services