Complex Care Nurse

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Complex Care Nurse in Royal Tunbridge Wells. The successful candidate will provide outstanding care for patients with long-term conditions like heart failure and COPD, managing a diverse caseload and collaborating with a skilled team. This role emphasizes compassionate care, tailored management plans, and promoting patient independence, ensuring high standards in an 'outstanding' rated service.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a valid Nursing license.
• Experience in working with complex care patients.
• Ability to manage a caseload effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver proactive and responsive care to patients with complex conditions.
• Develop management plans for self-management and condition optimization.
• Work as part of a team to ensure patient safety and satisfaction.

Skills

Clinical Judgement

Compassion

Organizational skills

Education

Nursing Degree

Job description

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We have an opportunity for a Band 7 Complex Care Nurse to join our Complex Care Nursing service in Tunbridge Wells.

Our complex care nursing service provides proactive and responsive care delivery to support patients with frailty and other complex long-term conditions, such as Heart Failure, COPD and diabetes.

We support patients with robust management plans to promote self-management, where possible, and optimise long term condition management and preventing unplanned hospital admissions.

Each nurse in our team is responsible for the management and nursing care delivery to a defined patient caseload within an aligned geographical area.

Your patients could be any age, but they'll often be elderly, while others may have been recently discharged from acute hospital, be terminally ill or have physical disabilities.

As a Band 7 Complex Care Nurse you will work as part of a team to keep people safe and well in Maidstone. You will use your clinical judgement to support evidence-based care planning and make sure that people who use our services have a good experience.

You will use your clinical judgement to support evidence-based care planning and make sure that people who use our services have a good experience.

“One of the big differences for me is the time we can give to our patients. We really get to know them.” Val, community hospital nurse

Additional Working Pattern: 7.5 hrs 3 days/week. 1 weekend in 4.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ann-Marie Jethwa Job title: Operational Manager Email address: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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