Band 5 Community Staff Nurse - Clinic - East Locality inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
WED 20 NOV 2024
Candidates must be competent in complex wound care and able to triage referrals, but driving is not mandatory. The position offers training and development opportunities, emphasizing collaboration with healthcare partners, including GPs and specialized clinics, to ensure the delivery of quality care and promote patient independence. This role is not suited for newly qualified nurses, highlighting the need for experienced practitioners to ensure effective patient support and care.
Clinic-based position supporting nurse lead clinics across Locality - applicants must have an active NMC PIN number as essential to role.
Driving not essential. Flexible working hours can be discussed. Monday to Friday - no weekends or bank holidays.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the East Locality in the role of Clinic Nurse. The successful candidate will work as a Clinic nurse as part of the community nursing teams supporting non housebound patients that require clinical interventions that are deemed complex and therefore do not meet practice nurse criteria. You will need to be able to travel to the clinic sites. You will provide a holistic approach to individuals, that includes, assessment, planning and implementation of care along with review. The successful candidate will act as an autonomous practitioner providing a comprehensive clinical assessment service to patients resulting in a safe and appropriate clinical decision.
The successful candidate should have experience of wound care, with a particular interest in leg ulcer assessment, treatment and follow up care including compression therapy and lymphoedema care as well as catherisations. Prescribing or a willingness to complete nurse prescribing essential. In identifying appropriate patients for clinics you will also support with triaging of referrals.
*This post is not suitable for newly qualified nurses, you must be experienced and competent in complex wound care and catheterisations*
The post holder will work as part of the integrated Multidisciplinary team under the supervision of the Clinical Team Manager. He / She will be accountable for the delivery of high quality care to patients within health centers. Working with other members of the IMT to provide care to and promote health/well being and independence for patients on the team caseload, working closely with other partners/stakeholders including GP's, Tissue Viability and vascular clinics. You will support IMT triaging to ensure patients receive the right care at the right time in the right place.
About us
Training and development will be provided to support successful candidates in achieving competence in these areas.
IMT clinics currently operate between the hours of 8 am to 6pm over 5 days per week and the working pattern for the successful candidate would only be Monday to Friday at present, however with any further development of clinics for non housebound patients this may be expanded in the future. This post requires the successful candidates to be able to travel between sites so a full driving license and car is preferable however not essential. Clinics are run at various sites in Central Locality so the successful candidate may not be attached to 1 team base.
Please wait...this will take a moment...
Stand by, we'll show you...