Band 6-Community Nurses

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

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  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The post holder will work as part of a multi-professional team managing a GP-aligned caseload of patients in the community, ensuring the needs of the patients are identified and met. Promoting the independence of patients, assisting them to maintain/or improve their own physical, psychological and social well-being.
Please note that we have a number of permanent and fixed term posts across the London borough of Sutton within Sutton Health & Care
We are looking for enthusiastic community nurses to join us in our community nursing services within the London borough of Sutton. You will need to be passionate about delivering exceptional holistic health care, supporting patients to remain independent and avoiding unnecessary hospital admission.
If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!
Previous experience of community nursing is preferable. You will work directly with patients, their families and our multidisciplinary services to plan and facilitate the delivery of holistic evidence based care.
Sutton Health and Care is a pioneering partnership made up of the GP federation in Sutton, the London Borough of Sutton, South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust and Epsom and St Helier hospitals.
We offer flexible shift patterns and encourage informal visits.
We are a 7 day extended hours service; working Monday to Sunday, 7am – 7pm including weekends and bank holidays.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Act as an autonomous practitioner, responsible for the management of an assigned caseload and associated activities with the support of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
Appraise the working practices of the team with the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse to improve standards of care in line with best practice.
Provide high quality, comprehensive holistic assessment (including physical assessment) and treatments for patients and their families referred to the service utilising a Single Assessment Process to achieve person centred care. Provide assessments of risk and complex situations as required, utilising knowledge and skills to interpret and make accurate analysis of patients’ and carers’ needs.
To work closely and communicate effectively with all members of the Primary Health Care team, ensuring attendance at MDT meetings, participating in multidisciplinary working with internal and external agencies and partners.
Manage the assessment, risk assessment, supply, review and safety of equipment used to support nursing care in the homes of patients.
Responsible for the day to day management of a nursing team; allocating duties and work and providing clinical support and leadership, prioritising workload demands and allocating resources as appropriate.
Assist in the professional development of junior team members within the team by ensuring that all staff have a yearly appraisal and development plan and implement the process for performance monitoring with the support of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
Maintain clear, concise and up-to-date records of care. Undertake data collection as required by the Clinical Commissioning Group.
Ensure that all team members comply with their obligations to maintain data through RiO.
Be responsible for prescribing such treatments as are deemed professionally appropriate in line with the Nurse Prescribing Formulary and Trust Protocols for nurse prescribing.
Provide patients and carers with details of health care information and how they may access services. Act as a patient advocate, if required.
Be proactive in offering health promotion and participate in health promotion activities, including health needs assessment for the caseload and local population.
To participate in clinical supervision, appraisal and in-service training as identified on own personal development plan.
To manage complaints as delegated by the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
Research and Development
Contribute to the development of new nursing knowledge.
Support the implementation of evidence-based practice.
Professional Responsibilities
Supervise and teach pre-registration students allocated to the team, providing mentorship and leadership as and when required.
To contribute to the development of evidence-based practice using audit and other tools including user and stakeholder feedback.
To keep a personal professional profile of study in line with NMC requirements.
To identify own training needs to maintain and develop clinical skills and practice in line with NMC Fitness to Practice.