Community Staff Nurse Band 5 – Out of Hours Team inBury inBury PUBLISHED WED 15 JAN 2025

Are you looking for a change in your career, to branch out and gain new experiences, we have the opportunity for a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse role within the Adult Community Nursing Single Point of Access (ACNT). The team in Bury are looking to recruit a Band 5 with a wealth of clinical skills and knowledge and be flexible and innovative to join their very supportive and extremely knowledgeable team. Support begins at the point of recruitment and throughout your role to gain competence and confidence.

The ACNT team triage all referrals for District Nursing and the Specialist Palliative Care team, within this role you will use all your skills and knowledge to communicate with both referrer, patients and carers in order to ensure a safe and timely response to care. This is a dual role where, on occasions, you will provide a priority response/unscheduled care service to the registered population of Bury. You will visit patients in their own homes including residential homes; you will assess acutely unwell priority patients.

The post holder should have good communication skills with the ability to prioritise workload responding to patient priority and need.

This is a part-time position (15 hours), the post holder will work weekends and bank holidays, with the flexibility to cover the service until 8pm at weekends. The service runs 7 days a week, bank holidays and weekends. Shift patterns can be negotiated to support a work life balance e.g. long days.

The post holder should have good organisational and assessment skills with the ability to prioritise workload responding to patient priority and need, be flexible to cover the needs of the service between. The service does provide an element of twilight cover from 5pm, this will be covered as part of a rota but the post will mainly cover the day element of the service which commences at 8.00 am to 5.00 pm. Shifts will cover weekends and bank holidays.

You will work as part of the clinical team involved in the planning, developing and evaluation of programmes of care to the practice population and will will carry out clinical skills using evidence based practice.

In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care , appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Victoria Johnson Job title: District Nurse Lead Email address: Telephone number:

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