District Nurse/ Senior Community NurseinSouthallinSouthallPUBLISHED TUE 21 JAN 2025
West London NHS TrustrmGDopzK
This full-time position involves shift work covering weekends and traveling within the community. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive care to patients with varying health challenges, emphasizing independence, well-being, and access to both statutory and voluntary health resources. The role also emphasises ongoing professional development, clinical leadership, and engagement in continuous learning to enhance both individual nursing practices and overall patient care.
Could you be our new Senior Community Nurse/ District Nurse looking for a new challenge?
An exciting opportunity to join a wonderful, dynamic and patient focused team providing high quality services to the local community.
We are committed in offering you a rewarding and team environment with clinical supervision and support, a variety of career development opportunities and access to learning and development ensuring your continuous professional enhancement, clinical leadership.
The post holder will work closely with the locality manager, team leads/ other clinicians to develop the service and maintain close working relationships with both acute and community services.
Candidates should be experienced nurse with sound clinical knowledge and proven experience in acute and community clinical environments. You will need to be adaptable to operate in a fast moving environment and have the clinical skills and ability to function as a lone worker in a larger team. Candidates should have excellent communication skills; and the ability to provide care as determined by the clinical assessments. Candidates will have undertaken professional development and have extended nursing skills, with evidence to support this. The role requires travel around the local community ideally you will need to have a full drivers licence and access to a car. The service covers 8am - 8pm working 7 days per week. The shift patterns are 8am - 4pm and 12pm - 8pm fulltime including weekend working.
To Practice as a senior member of the community nursing team, working within the Integrated Community Services (ICS)
To provide a case management approach to care for an identified number of patients working closely with GPs, the ICS and other Statutory and Voluntary agencies.
To provide advice, information and education to patients and carers with the aim of enabling patients to enjoy maximum independence, health and wellbeing.
To creatively manage the holistic and clinical needs of patients with acute, sub-acute and long-term conditions.
To enable patients living long term physical health challenges to live well within their communities, with a focus on not only their physical health needs but also their wider holistic needs, e.g. mental health, learning disabilities, psychological needs, social needs and spiritual needs
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The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
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