Community Nurse - Gosport 1NHS

Job summary

Join our dedicated Integrated Care Team as a Community Nurse, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across the local community. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and accountability frameworks, you will manage a defined community caseload, providing holistic assessments, care planning, treatment and ongoing support to patients in their own homes and community settings.

You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues to coordinate care, manage referrals according to clinical need, and ensure excellent standards of patient safety, documentation and clinical outcomes. The role plays a key part in preventing avoidable hospital admissions, supporting timely discharges, and promoting independence through rehabilitation, reablement, health promotion and disease prevention initiatives.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in patients' lives while working within a supportive and forward-thinking team committed to reducing health inequalities and improving community healthcare services.

Due to the community-based nature of the role, applicants must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.

This role is ideal for a motivated and compassionate registered nurse who is committed to delivering outstanding care and improving health outcomes across the community.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to:

*Act at all times with Compassion, to be Committed to delivering high quality Care, use effective Communication, be Competent and have Courage when needed.

*Person-Centred Care

*Participate in the holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and therapy for patients in the home, without direct supervision. This includes those with chronic disease, terminal illness who wish to die at home and complex care needs. Other settings include, residential homes, nursing homes, clinic's community centres and community hospitals.

*Recognise and respond to the need for appropriate referral to other members of the Community Care Team or external organisations including appropriate escalation of potential Safeguarding risks.

*Provide safe medicines management in your area, according to professional and organisational guidelines to ensure safety and efficacy.

*Inform the Senior Community Nurse / Community Matron of any concerns with patients, relatives, visitors, or staff that may compromise patient care

*Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients' needs are met

*Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained

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