Community District Nurse inCrewkerne inCrewkerne PUBLISHED
MON 21 OCT 2024
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust rha3FE4w
The role requires flexibility in working hours, covering shifts from 08:00 to 22:00, including weekends and bank holidays. Successful candidates will play a crucial part in a newly developed Hospital @ Home program, allowing patients to receive acute care and monitoring in their own homes instead of hospital settings. The Trust is open to both full-time and part-time applicants seeking a rewarding challenge in community nursing.
Are you a registered nurse with a passion for providing safe, effective, and personalised care in patient's own homes?
The Yeovil & South Somerset neighbourhood are looking for nursing colleagues to join our integrated team, to deliver patient care in the community! Our team cover the geographical area across Chard, Crewkerne, Ilminster, South Petherton and surrounding areas. Please include your preferred location in your application form!
The role of the district nurse has changed over the years, and we are now looking after patients in their home environment including complex wound management, palliative care and end of life care, medicines management, as well as having a high standard of holistic assessment and care planning skills.
You will be working independently to support with managing the care of patients in our local community and wider Neighbourhood.
We are recruiting due to staff development and promotion - as a service we pride ourselves on colleague development and succession planning. We provide generous support for CPD internal & external opportunities, and for district nursing colleagues specifically we encourage you to apply for the specialist practice qualification which you would be supported to complete on either full or part-time basis.
If you are a qualified RGN, currently looking for a new exciting and rewarding challenge within the community, please look no further and apply today!
This post will involve working between the hours of 08:00 -- 22:00 including weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.
Shift patterns include: 8am-4pm, 9am-5pm, 10am-6pm, 2pm-10pm. We are open to hearing from applicants who are looking for either full or part-time hours on a permanent basis.
In Somerset, we're working with health and care partners with a newly developed Hospital @ Home programme to care for patients at home safely, rather than being in hospital.
This service is a safe and efficient alternative to hospital care that is enhanced by technology. It supports patients to remain at home, who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care, monitoring and treatment that they need.
This includes either preventing avoidable admissions into hospital or supporting early discharge out of hospital. The service can help patients to complete their treatment or be monitored prior to surgery from the comfort of their own home.
About us
Duties and Responsibilities
Work closely with the Team Leader coordinating the community nursing teams off duties to meet the needs of the community nursing service/workload.
Ensuring all loans of equipment are appropriate and reviewed regularly
Working in partnership with other health care professionals and agencies
Encouraging client independence and empowerment, recognising and respecting their involvement in the planning and delivery of their care
Please see attached job description for more information.
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