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As a Community Nurse, you will work within a supportive neighbourhood team alongside District Nurse Team Leaders, various healthcare professionals, and assistants. Your responsibilities will include administering medications, end-of-life care, wound management, and using advanced assessment skills. Oxford Health provides tailored induction programs, supervised practice periods, and ongoing professional development opportunities to help you build your clinical skills and advance in your nursing career. Applicants are encouraged to specify their preferred working area in their applications.
We are able to offer part time, full time , annualised, weekend only and flexible working roles in a variety of District Nursing teams and locations across Oxfordshire. Our service hours are from 8am until 6.30pm seven days a week .We are keen to explore the art of the possible with hours, locality and your availability.
Do get in touch if you wish to discuss any possibilities!
Do you want the privilege of visiting patients in their own homes to deliver increasingly complex, holistic care? If yes, District Nursing may be the right career choice for you with the added bonus of no night shifts.
There will be a team near you that would wholeheartedly welcome you to join them.
All levels of experience are welcome in District Nursing- Don't believe the old wives tales about needing to work on a ward first. Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a change in direction and a more challenging role, we would welcome your application for this exciting opportunity to join the district nursing world.
As a Community Nurse, you would be supported to develop into an autonomous practitioner; nursing patients with multiple complex health care needs in their own home.
District nursing is a highly specialised area of practice recognised by the Queens Nurses Institute and NMC as a specialist role.
As a Community Staff Nurse, you will work within a neighbourhood team of District Nurse Team Leaders, Community Staff Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioner's, Health Care Assistant's and phlebotomists to meet the needs of the complex patient in the community and avoid admissions to the acute sector as far as practicable. This includes Intravenous medication administration, end of life care, managing the deteriorating patient, complex and simple wound care including VAC therapy and compression therapy, venepuncture, utilising advanced physical assessment skills and many more clinical nursing skills.
We nurse people with a variety of conditions in a holistic manner both in their own home and in clinic setting and work in close partnership with other primary health care professionals such as GP's, Community Matrons, Community Therapies and other Tier 2 specialised services such as Tissue Viability, Diabetes and Heart Failure.
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What will we give you?
Once you have started with Oxford Health you will be on the road to develop and hone your clinical skills. We offer each person a bespoke induction in your team with a period of being supernumerary , which is usually up to 4 weeks. We will ensure you can attend the District Nursing Induction programme, this is tailored to district nursing staff, encompassing as facets of Oxford Health and the lived experience of what you will do, giving you an insight into the organisation. The preceptorship programme is another opportunity for you and you will be able to undertake a service development project. We are Oxford Health pride ourselves in supporting and developing our staff to achieve their potential and to fly in their career.
Please indicate which area you would ideally like to work in on your application.
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