Senior Community Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an inspirational Senior Community Nurse to deliver high-quality care in patients' homes and designated treatment rooms across the city from Bitterne Health Centre, Southampton. The role supports a manageable caseload and works within a multi-disciplinary team to prevent hospital admissions.

The post requires autonomous practice with leadership to junior staff, regular collaboration with primary care, and eligibility to work

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse.
• Community nursing experience preferred.
• Willing to work across a 7-day pattern including weekends and bank holidays.

Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with Primary Care to provide high quality clinical care in the community.
• Support supervision and development of junior staff within the locality health team.
• Collaborate with health and social care partners to manage complex care needs and lead in discharge planning.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Autonomous working

Team collaboration

Job description

HIOW Healthcare are looking for an inspirational registered nurse to work as a Senior Community Nurse. Community Nurses work autonomously and as part of a team and care is delivered in the patients own home environment and designated treatment rooms. Our nurses are responsible for a manageable caseload, working across the city ensuring our patients are receiving the best quality care from the comfort of their own homes and thereby avoiding hospital admission.

Community Nursing is much wider than the nursing team. We work alongside our colleagues within Social Care, our Internal Safeguarding Team, specialist services, both within HIOWH and external providers, to ensure our patients are provided with the care they require. Working collaboratively enhances staff development but also ensures that our patients are at the heart of everything we do.

This is a full time role 37.5 hrs pw based at Bitterne Health Centre in Southampton. Our working patterns are across a 7 day week. Our core shifts are 0830 to 1630 and 1400 to 2000 hrs. There is also a requirement that you will work 1 in 4 weekends as well as bank holidays.

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

Main duties of the job

• To work in partnership with Primary Care to provide high quality clinical care for patients, often with complex care needs, living in the community, who require a programme of care & rehabilitation following an inpatient episode or who are living with long term conditions and are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in declining quality of life.
• To support the Clinical Manager and Integrated Service Matron in providing clinical knowledge and leadership to the community nursing staff in the wider locality health team, supervising and developing junior staff and contributing to the achievement of divisional business delivery objectives.
• To work collaboratively with partners in health and social care, to establish a whole systems approach to managing patients with complex care needs, maintaining a community pull on patients being admitted to secondary care, to inform decisions about acute interventions and to lead in the discharge planning.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence