Senior Community Nurse - UCRNHS
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast paced and dynamic team, within the Southeast Division of Hampshire and IOW trust. We have the opportunity for a full time 37.5-hour position for a band 6 clinical lead. Contributing to the prevention of hospital admissions under a strong and robust frailty model, where Patients are cared for on a virtual ward in their own home, ensuring their needs are met and they are monitored during an acute episode of illness. If you have existing nursing skills which you feel are not used to their full potential, and you feel your job is repetitive with the same tasks every day. Then look at this role, it provides a true variation of demand, it will make you utilise skills you maybe don't get to use. Every day you will look forward to coming to work, knowing you are preventing a hospital admission and supporting someone to remain at home.
Experience in community care is desirable, however full training can be provided, and ongoing post Reg training is available including the physical assessment course, diagnostics and independent nurse prescribing.
We believe in our staff, they are our greatest assets to the running of our successful service.
At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.
Main duties of the job
Experience in community care is desirable, however full training can be provided, and ongoing post Reg training is available including the physical assessment course, diagnostics and independent nurse prescribing.
We believe in our staff, they are our greatest assets to the running of our successful service.
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Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
About us
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