Community Nurse inWorcester inWorcester PUBLISHED TUE 24 DEC 2024

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Nurse to join Cityside Neighbourhood Team in Worcester. You will reap the rewards of being an autonomous practitioner to deliver individual patient care. This will give you the rewarding opportunity to provide holistic care to patients. Shift patterns include 07.30-15.30, 08.30-16.30, and 10.30-18.30. Flexible working opportunities are available and we would welcome you to discuss these options at interview. The Team consists of Community Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Healthcare Assistants and admin staff with the wider multidisciplinary team. We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible team player with a strong, quality driven patient focus and an ability to work through change to embed new ways of delivering care. In return we provide you with compassionate leadership within a supportive team environment and an individual induction package. You will be fully supported to gain new skills and experience to deliver high quality nursing care to patients in their own home, clinic and residential settings. You will also have the opportunity for professional development and progression. We would love for you to join us in this transformational community care journey within the Worcester Neighbourhood Team. To discuss informally if this is the right role for you, get in touch with Recruiting Manager which can be found on the top right-hand side of the advert.

Fixed Term hours also available

A typical day as community nurse may start with greeting a diabetic patient and administering their insulin, followed by supporting patients at the end of their life to ensure gold standard care is delivered. You may then visit a few patients to dress a leg ulcer or post op wound, followed by changing a catheter to flushing a patients central line. You may be called out to an urgent care response visit where a patient needs to be seen and assessed within 2 hours. Following a list of visits you will have team handover, this gives you the opportunity to discuss complex situations with your colleagues and undertake clinical supervision. No day is the same within the community and each day is as rewarding as the next, whether youve healed a leg ulcer or given a patient the best possible care at the end of their life. One thing we promise you is that community nursing is never boring!

About us

• Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.
• Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
• Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings to enable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This will be achieved through a combination of hands on clinical skills and knowledge to treat, educate and support patients on a designated caseload and by working with patients and their carers to assess, plan and implement appropriate packages of care.
• Regularly take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.