Community Staff Nurse BankinLondoninLondonPUBLISHED WED 6 NOV 2024

Community Staff Nurse - District Nursing - Bank Band 5

As a qualified registered nurse you will be working across teams in either Bexley or Greenwich to deliver excellent nursing care in the community in patients homes and residential units. We will assign you to work across 2 core teams, but from time to time ask you to support in other teams.

We are able to offer flexibility in the choice of shifts available and are able to guarantee shifts for a long-term period with the service due to existing vacancies. We provide our bank staff with training and development opportunities in the same way we do our substantive staff and encourage you to develop your clinical skills within a supportive environment.

You will be required to understand and adhere to all Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Working as a bank nurse provides you with an opportunity to experience working across teams with support from specialist nurses including Diabetes and Tissue Viability teams. We also have practice development nurses in End of Life care to support your practice.

Our bank workforce is highly valued and is an essential component of successful service delivery for our teams.

As a community staff nurse in District Nursing you will undertake the following interventions for patients in the community:

Wound management

Lower leg wound care

Pressure Ulcer care

Bladder and Bowel Management

Administration of medication

Diabetes Care

Nutrition management

PICC Line care

Phlebotomy

End of life care

Where your competencies need updating in these tasks we will support you to develop these so that you are able to deliver the full range of interventions.

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To participate and provide support and health education programmes for patients, carers, and families.

To establish professional relationships with patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.

To ensure own mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust guidelines.

To provide evidence-based care to patients, assess and formulate personalised care plans, and implement and evaluate care

Work to NMC Guidelines and maintain professionalism at all times.

To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the Community Health Services as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.

Management responsibilities

To prioritise clinical workload according to patient need.

To report all clinical and non-clinical accidents or near misses promptly and when required, to co-operate with any investigation undertaken.

To demonstrate efficient and effective use of resources within own practice.

To attend and participate in clinical supervision in line with Trust policy.

To understand and adhere to all Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust policies procedures and guidelines.

To demonstrate an awareness of health care delivery systems and the local and national priorities of health care delivery, e.g. Intermediate Care, Frailty, Poly Pharmacy and acute and chronic ill health conditions.

To actively participate in the Professional Development Review (PDR) process and ensure training needs are addressed.

To maintain NMC registration.

Leadership

Complies with the NMC Code of Conduct & PREP requirements

To be accountable to line manager and professional leads.

To act as a mentor/preceptor to new staff, students and other non-registered team members and support them to achieve their learning objectives.

Clinical

To work under supervision during induction period and identify any learning in own competencies to undertake the role.

Work/Liaise with other nursing team members to ensure that plans of nursing care are carried out to the agreed standard.

To demonstrate evidence of comprehensive nursing assessment and documentation of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patient/client.

To work within a clinical effectiveness framework using evidence-based practice, research and audit to plan implement and evaluate care.

To share good practice in order to improve standards of care.

To assist in the development and evaluation of teaching programmes for students and other care workers.

For nurses working in the community, to develop and achieve baseline skills, for example venepuncture, intravenous medication administration, Doppler assessments, ear syringing and the use of syringe drivers.

Research

To be aware of and keep up to date with current research-based evidence.

To participate in research, audit or quality assurance projects as required and provide evidence-based care.

Communication

To ensure effective communication with patients and their carers, including the provision of patient education, health promotion and emotional support where appropriate.

To ensure effective communication with senior nursing staff and all members of the multidisciplinary team.

To record treatment and care carried out in the patients/clients homes on appropriate documentation. Records must be kept up to date and accurate in accordance with trust policies.

Ensure that all relevant information regarding patients is documented and where appropriate reported and acted upon immediately.

To provide accurate written and verbal reports as required.

To keep a diary for the purpose of planning work and recording all visits, both effective and non-effective.

To maintain confidentiality of information relating to patients, staff and organisation.

To have the ability to interpret sensitive information and communicate with a sympathetic and empathic approach to patient-centred care.

To be able to work appropriately with any barriers to communication: older people, physical disabilities, and cultural backgrounds.