Staff Nurse - Physical Health Community Services

BERKSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Hungerford; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Annual leave 27 days +

NHS Pension

Learning and career development

Cycle to Work

Staff wellbeing tools

Staff discounts

Diversity networks

Maternity/paternity leave

Free parking across Trust sites

Job summary

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Staff Nurse to join the West Berkshire Community Nursing team. You will support, assess and treat patients in their own homes, providing high-quality, evidence-based care seven days a week, 08.30–19.00, including Bank Holidays.

You will work with the Team Leader/Community Nursing Band 6/Matron and other professionals to holistically plan and evaluate nursing care, teaching patients and families and promoting self-care where

Qualifications

• Assessment, reassessment, and medication management.
• Bladder and bowel care and tissue viability.
• Care using specialist equipment and palliative care.
• Commitment to holistic home-based care.

Responsibilities

• Holistically assess the needs of patients and carers and plan care with the patient and family.
• Undertake first visits and report back to the Team Leader/Community Matron for further discussion.
• Establish working relationships with other professionals and voluntary agencies.
• Provide care according to best practice and support evidence-based development.
• Promote self-care and build health promotion into care.
• Develop and participate in teaching programmes for patients.

Skills

Wound care

Bladder care

Palliative care

Medication administration

Assessment

Teamwork

Education

Nursing degree

Job description

An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a Community Staff Nurse to join the West Berkshire Community Nursing team. Within the community we are seeing more complex and acute patients than ever before, with increasingly specialist treatment and care being provided by highly skilled staff. Working within our Community Nursing Team you will support, assess, and treat patients with a variety of health needs, delivering high quality, evidence based practice. You will have a passion and enthusiasm to care for patients in their own homes. The Community Nursing service offers care to patients in their own homes, 7 days a week, 08.30 - 19.00, inclusive of Bank Holidays.,

• To work in conjunction with the Team Leader/ Community Nursing Band 6/ Community Matron and all staff within the team to holistically assess the needs of patients and carers, and to work in partnership with the patient and family to plan, implement and evaluate programmes of nursing care.
• To be able to undertake first visits and take any immediate action, reporting back to the Team Leader/Community Nursing Band 6/Community Matron for further discussion and/or assessment.
• To establish working relationships with other professionals and voluntary agencies to achieve health aims.
• To undertake practice assessor and supervisor training support students and new staff to the service.
• Provide care according to the available evidence of best practice and the support of others in the development of evidence based practice.
• To be actively involved in promoting self-care for patients and building Health Promotion into care.
• To develop and participate in planned teaching programmes for patients.
• To demonstrate knowledge and skills including assessment, reassessment, medication management, bladder bowel care, tissue viability, care, use and administration of treatment using specialist equipment, palliative care and symptom control, managing acute episodes of care, reducing hospital admissions, as per band 5 competency document.
  You will have a commitment to providing holistic care to patients in their own homes, be able to work on you own initiative and work well within a team. Key clinical skills include complex wound care, bladder & bowel management, palliative & end of life care, as well as medication administration.
  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites