The North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Staff Nurse for a full-time position (37.5 hours per week, with part-time options available) in Wigton. The successful candidate will provide routine and complex nursing care to patients in their homes, emphasizing integrated health and social care to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Prioritizing referrals and managing workload.
- Assessing and delivering clinical nursing care based on best practices.
- Performing various clinical duties, including venepuncture, wound care, and medication administration.
- Supporting patient independence and rehabilitation, particularly for terminally ill patients.
- Collaborating closely with other healthcare professionals and managing specialist nursing equipment.
The role requires effective communication, compassion, and a commitment to personalized care. Candidates should have a sound knowledge of medication effects and nurse prescribing.
The Trust offers a supportive environment with preceptorship for newly registered nurses, relocation assistance for qualified applicants, and a range of employee benefits, including flexible working arrangements, generous holiday entitlements, and access to an NHS pension scheme. Candidates interested in this role are encouraged to apply promptly as the position may close early due to high interest.
Community Staff Nurse - 37.5 hours available.
*Part time hours may be considered*
- Do you want to be part of an emerging, unique and diverse organisation that put people at the heart of what we do? A Trust that empowers and engages its workforce to improve care and wellbeing, by delivering better health, better care in partnership?
- Are you looking to develop your knowledge and skills in community services, providing both routine and complex treatments to patients within their own home?
- Do you see the benefits of closer integrated working between health and social care to ensure the best outcomes for patients?
- Are you passionate about wanting to work with patients to help them achieve their goals? Are you caring and compassionate and committed to personalised care?
Keswick and Solway Integrated Care Community is a well-established team that has long-standing working relationships with many different partners and stakeholders. Effective collaboration with Primary Care, Social Care and multiple charities and third sector providers enables us to deliver a wide-range of services to the population we serve. We work as a team in a beautiful rural location and have good team spirit and resilience.
- To prioritise referrals and manage workload
- To assess, monitor and continually evaluate risk management of situation and environment for both patient/carer/family and staff and deal with safety issues as identified.
- To assess, deliver and evaluate all aspects of clinical nursing care based on best practice.
- Use of equipment/technology to aid appropriate assessment of patient condition and delivery of treatment such as Doppler, Syringe Driver, enteral feed system, moving and handling equipment
- To carry out a range of clinical duties that involve dealing with body fluids eg venepuncture, wound dressings, catheterisation and tracheostomy care.
- To undertake and obtain samples for diagnostic purposes eg venepuncture, wound swabs, urinary and faecal sampling.
- To support and educate patients/carers in promoting independence and rehabilitation in timely approach using case management model of working.
- To deliver care in promoting comfort for patients who are terminally ill following recognised care pathway.
- To have sound knowledge base of medication and effects on conditions.
- To be responsible for appropriate and cost effective nurse prescribing.
- To administer medications reviewing and monitoring effects.
- To communicate closely with patients and all parties involved in delivery of services.
- To order and ensure effective management of specialist nursing equipment.
About us
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment.Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
The Trust will provide a twelve month preceptorship period for all newly registered healthcare professionals.
Healthcare Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Important Information
Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.
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- Junk Mail is checked regularly
Disclosure and Barring Service:
On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.
The changes mean that:
- youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.
If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.
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The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as followsif applicable to the post:
Standard Check: £18 + Administration cost of £3.85 = £21.85. Deducted at £6.85 from 1st month salary and £5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.
Enhanced Check: £38 + administration cost of £3.90 = £41.90. Deducted at £11.90 from 1st month salary and £10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.
As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.
A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.
27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
Flexible working Scheme
Excellent opportunities for development
Competitive NHS Pension scheme
Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies
EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
These schemes are subject to availability
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