Urgent Community Response Nurse (South Warwickshire)NHS
Job summary
BAND 5, Community Staff Nurse - Urgent Community Response South (Leamington Spa and Stratford Upon Avon)
Full/Part time available - permanent
We have the exciting opportunity to recruit enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Nurses for the Urgent Community Response Team South Warwickshire covering Stratford Upon Avon, Leamington, Warwick and surrounding areas.
Urgent Community Response is a well established team of highly skilled clinicians working together to support urgent response visits (2 hours and same day) and prevent admissions for patients in their own home.
The successful candidate will be involved in a number of clinical tasks including catheter care, falls-pick ups, management of Palliative patients, wound-care, deteriorating patients, venepuncture, ECGs and much more. You will need to be able to manage the complexity and fast pace of the role, be highly motivated, work on your own initiative and have excellent communication and organisation skills.
We provide a structured induction and training period to ensure that all new starters are provided with the opportunity to develop new skills and competence.
If you are interested, would like to come for an informal visit or have any questions please contact Julie Hemming on 07795 237875.
Main duties of the job
The community staff nurse is a member of the Integrated Health Team, who undertakes professional duties in the client's homes and clinics to ensure provision of high standard nursing care and health promotion.
To work across professional boundaries, providing comprehensive health care that is sensitive to the needs of the local population.
Job description
Main Functions
Act in accordance with current local Warwickshire Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children, and SWFT guidelines/policy to protect vulnerable adults and children.
Contribute towards ensuring AHP & Nursing Strategy is implemented across the Integrated Health Team.
To support the urgent response team to meet the 2 hour visit target.
To establish priorities of care in accordance with caseload management.
To take responsibility for updating and developing professional knowledge and skills which relate to clinical practice.
To act within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and comply with the Trusts policies and procedures.
To participate in the development, training and mentorship of pre-registration students and staff as required including induction and preceptorship programmes.
To provide skilled clinical nursing practices.
Communication
Develop and maintain effective communication networks, with service users, health care professionals and other statutory and voluntary organisations.
To promote and maintain accurate record keeping in order to conform to NMC policy and Data protection.
Responsibility for Patient Care
To action referrals appropriately according to risk and need in accordance to the service referral criteria.
To undertake planned and opportunistic health promotion and education activities with patients and carers.
Act as a patients advocate where appropriate.
Policy and Service Development
Understanding national policy and guidance and the ability to interpret and implement at service level.
Responsibility for Human Resources
Direct supervision of junior members of staff.
Act independently on a range of delegated tasks and use own initiative in order to manage own workload within appropriate professional guidelines.
Participate in the PDR process to identify personal and team development goals.
Able to organise staff in the absence of the band 6 reporting to a senior member of staff any anomalies.
Professional Responsibilities and Freedom to Act
Interpret national guidance on NMC guidelines.
Participate in clinical supervision.
Maintain clinical and professional competencies in accordance with relevant statutory legislation and guidance relevant to health professionals and their services.
To participate in mandatory and statutory training requirements and keep a record of all training and other developmental activities.
Responsibility for Research & Development
Ensure standards, protocols and policies are evidence based and applied to practice.
Keep updated with current clinical issues thus always promoting best practice.
Use research to inform practice.
Participate in audits as appropriate.
General
The post holder will be required to have access to independent means of transport for work purposes to travel across SWFT and to other agencies.
Physical and Mental Effort
The post holder will undertake people moving and handling on a daily basis. The handling of equipment e.g. hoists, is integral to the post and may be required to be undertaken in confined spaces within patients homes.
The post holder will be required to operate as a lone worker in accordance with WCH policies and procedures.
The post holder may come into contact with bodily fluids including urine and faeces and exudate from wounds e.g. blood and pus.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.