Primary Care Nurse for Care Homes

NHS; Margate; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Margate is seeking an experienced Nurse to enhance care quality in care homes. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, a background in community nursing, and experience with long term conditions. Responsibilities include managing care for residents, conducting assessments, and coordinating with GPs and healthcare teams. This role requires a flexible approach and a full driver's license. Join our professional nursing team to make a real difference in patient care.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage own time effectively and prioritize workload.
• Experience of working within a healthcare team.
• Understanding of clinical decision-making and assessment.

Responsibilities

• Manage a case load of care home residents.
• Provide care including history taking and treatment.
• Conduct regular planned visits and emergency assessments.
• Coordinate referrals and manage patient care effectively.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Teamwork

Planning patient care

Emergency response

Independence

Education

NMC Registration

Community Nurse experience

Experience with long term conditions

Job description

We are looking for an experinced Nurse withexcellent communication and interpersonal skills and proven team workingabilities, to be resourceful, with the ability to manage their own timeeffectively and prioritise their own workload.

This role is an excitingopportunity to work as part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team, innovatingand developing transformational changes; essential for this role.

You will be part of a team that willwork with care homes to enhance quality of care.

Our focus is to enhance care in CareHomes by covering all aspects of care.You will be working within a wide skill mixed team, who are passionateabout people living in a care home, taking both a medical and holisticapproach.

The post holder will be required totravel in between care homes and have a flexible approach to their day. They must hold a full drivers licence andaccess to own transport.

The post holder may also be expected to hold clinics for noncare home patients at the surgery and work collaboratively with Bethesda's nursing team, carrying out general practice nursing duties efficiently.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be partof a team that will work with care homes to enhance quality of care and willhave experience of working within a wider healthcare team.

The candidate will also have experience inLong Term Condition Management.

About us

Bethesda Medical Centre is a large surgery based on the cliff tops in Margate, Kent.

We have approxiamately 19,000 patients and have strong work ethics to provide good patient care through teamwork .You will be part of an established and professional nursing team, Acute Care Team, HCA's , GP's ,Frailty Team and Mental Health Nurses

Job responsibilities

JobDescription

Dutieswill include:

Managinga case load of care home residents across a number of care homes.

Providecare for the presenting patient, to include initial history taking, clinicalassessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care.

Demonstratesafe, clinical decision making including assessment and diagnosis skills

Carryingout regular planned (and in some cases) acute emergency visits

Producingand reviewing ACPs, TEPs (RESPECT) and promote Restore 2 training.

Proactivelyplanning patient care and assessing ongoing patient needs

Regularliaison with assigned GPs whenever appropriate

Proactivelyworking with Care Home and Nursing Home staff and management to promote ongoingplanned patients care

Discussingend of life care with patients and relatives

Coordinatingreferrals to other services such as, chiropodist, dietician and tissue viability.

Workingwithin their professional boundaries

Beinvolved in weekly care home rounds

The post holder may also be expected to hold clinics for noncare home patients at the surgery and work collaboratively with Bethesda's nursing team, carrying out general practice nursing duties efficiently.

Person Specification

Experience

• Possess excellent communication skills able to liaise with GPs, Home management and staff and with relatives
• Be able to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Be comfortable seeking advice from GP colleagues
• Be able to respond to emergencies and where necessary liaise with GPs about acute admissions.
• Planning and implementing individual patient care within the context of an interdependent healthcare team
• Achieving a balance between the demands of direct patient care within existing resources and job plan.
• Communicating with and supporting distressed/anxious/worried relatives /patients.
• Continually reappraise the effectiveness of resources against the unpredictability of service demands.
• Work within a specialty with unpredictable levels of activity.
• Providing a professional advisory role to a wide variety of contacts e.g. patients, relatives, carers, junior and senior nursing, medical and paramedical colleagues.
• To participate in reporting, documenting and evaluation of the work of the Care Home Clinician and to demonstrate its importance both to patients and members of the interdependent healthcare team.
• Keep professionally up to date with continuing professional development.
• Experience in Long term conditions

Qualifications

• NMC Registration
• Background of working as a Community Nurse
• Experience with long term conditions

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.