Community NurseNHS
Job summary
HIOW Healthcare is looking for an inspirational nurse to deliver a high standard of quality care to patients within the community setting. Community Nurses work autonomously and as part of a team and care is delivered in the patient's own home environment. 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.
HIOW Healthcare Community Nurses work with adults who need support for a multitude of health conditions. These include:
Long term conditions management
Acute wounds and complex wound care
Palliative and end of life care
Facilitating discharge from hospital, including drain management, administration of prophylactic medication
Continence care and bowel care
Administration of a variety of medications
Although a lone worker, you will be supported by a team who are always available, to allow you to develop your existing skills into becoming an autonomous practitioner in the community. You will be provided the training you require by attending appropriate training and working with our Educators in Practice and other staff within the team.
This is a part time position working within a team based at Thomas Lewis House in Southampton. Our working patterns are across 7 days. Our core shifts are 0800 to 1600 and 1400 to 2000 hrs. There is also a requirement that you will work 1 in 4 weekends as well as Bank Holidays.
Main duties of the job
A registered nurse working as part of a multi-disciplinary Locality Health Team affiliated to a cluster of GP Practices providing nursing care to the Practice population both in the patients home or clinic setting based on individual care needs.
Delivering on the organisational objectives to meet individual health care needs through high quality, safe and effective services to avoid unnecessary admissions to secondary care, support early discharge from hospital, effective case management for patients with complex long-term conditions or following an acute health episode and individualised care for the patient and carers at the end of life.
The post-holder will be required to demonstrate a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability, working within the Nursing and Midwifery guidelines to have responsibility for the management of a defined Community Nursing caseload within one or more GP practices in the absence of the Senior Community or Clinical Manager.
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