Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
This job role will predominantly focus on delivering care to patients within the Community locality teams that are defined as Palliative/End of Life, but will also support patients that have a clear nursing need and are housebound and therefore unable to access such nursing interventions elsewhere. This element is delivered over a 24-hour period with nursing teams organized to deliver care during core hours, twilight hours and night-time hours. The service is provided to all residents with a Portsmouth GP.
The Community Nursing Service in Portsmouth is a seven-day service delivered over 24 hours.
The core service is operational between the hours of 08.30hrs and 17.00hrs. The service includes a number of teams: Days, Out of Hours team (twilight and nights) and the Care Home Team.
- Working under indirect supervision, as part of the Community Nursing localities, the post holder will have responsibility for delivering nursing care to patients who are palliative/end of life and housebound patients requiring nursing care within a defined Community Nursing caseload and within one or more GP practices.
- Safely manage self in high-risk area
- To deliver nursing care by following a care plan written as part of a holistic assessment by the registered nurse for patients and their family/carers in their own home and other community settings to include:
- Palliative/end of life care
- Wound management
- Infection control
- Continuing care: including, rehabilitation, chronic disease monitoring and contributes to the delivery of the National Service Frameworks. This could include Venepuncture; Blood Pressure and Blood Glucose monitoring and the obtaining and/or testing of specimens.
- Public health: participate in health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities.
- Administration of medication, for example eye/ear drops
- Continence and bowel care. This may include continence assessments.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
This job role will predominantly focus on delivering care to patients within the Community locality teams that are defined as Palliative/End of Life, but will also support patients that have a clear nursing need and are housebound and therefore unable to access such nursing interventions elsewhere. This element is delivered over a 24-hour period with nursing teams organized to deliver care during core hours, twilight hours and night-time hours. The service is provided to all residents with a Portsmouth GP.
The Community Nursing Service in Portsmouth is a seven-day service delivered over 24 hours.
The core service is operational between the hours of 08.30hrs and 17.00hrs. The service includes a number of teams: Days, Out of Hours team (twilight and nights) and the Care Home Team.
- Working under indirect supervision, as part of the Community Nursing localities, the post holder will have responsibility for delivering nursing care to patients who are palliative/end of life and housebound patients requiring nursing care within a defined Community Nursing caseload and within one or more GP practices.
- Safely manage self in high-risk area
- To deliver nursing care by following a care plan written as part of a holistic assessment by the registered nurse for patients and their family/carers in their own home and other community settings to include:
- Palliative/end of life care
- Wound management
- Infection control
- Continuing care: including, rehabilitation, chronic disease monitoring and contributes to the delivery of the National Service Frameworks. This could include Venepuncture; Blood Pressure and Blood Glucose monitoring and the obtaining and/or testing of specimens.
- Public health: participate in health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities.
- Administration of medication, for example eye/ear drops
- Continence and bowel care. This may include continence assessments.
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