Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider in Gloucester is seeking a Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse to support patient care in homes. The role involves leading a team, triaging, and working closely with multidisciplinary teams. Applicants should have community experience and the ability to manage a diverse caseload. The position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Support and lead a team while caring for a complex caseload.
• Ability to demonstrate a full range of community competencies.

Responsibilities

• Enable patients to live well within their communities.
• Lead Multidisciplinary Team meetings as required.
• Communicate with various healthcare teams.

Skills

Community experience

Leadership

Communication

Education

District Nurse status

Job description

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Gloucester ICT Community Nursing Team are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to support the team in delivery of patient care in their own homes.

Community experience is essential with the ability to demonstrate a full range of community competencies. You will support and lead a team whilst caring for a complex and diverse caseload, working closely with your peers, wider integrated community team and GP practice staff. The role will entail triage in the referral centre (usually 2-3 times a month and a late shift (usually 1 a week) .

Our shifts are 8-4pm, 12-8pm- with one weekend a month on a rolling rota (days in lieu given).

Gloucester ICT is a great place to work with an extremely supportive team, and the opportunity to apply for the DNSPQ (Pg Dip) to potentially gain District Nurse status.

If this post interests you we would be very pleased to hear from you.

• To enable patients to live well within their communities, with a focus on physical health needs and wider holistic needs.
• Lead Multidisciplinary Team meetings meeting as required- including GP supported clinical meetings (Gold Standards Framework or Case Management reviews)
• Communicate and liaise with the Multidisciplinary ICT, Gloucestershire Care Services (GCS) and Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as well as other referring acute and community hospitals
• Discuss patient's conditions with them as appropriate and relay accurately and contemporaneously back to appropriate colleagues.
  
  

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

About

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
  
  

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Clutterbuck Job title: Community Nurse Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07826 893960

Should you require any more information, please contact -

CNL - Sarah Clutterbuck

[e-mail]

07826 893960

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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