Bank Community District Nurse

at  Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Are you looking for a career in the NHS, but unsure where to begin? It’s a great time to apply to join our OUTSTANDING organisation.
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust provides opportunities to gain experience working within our communities to develop your career.
Temporary Staffing Services allows you to work within Cambridgeshire Community Services, under a 0 hours contract basis, which means you have the flexibility to work as and when you want to.
As a Bank Worker you can work flexibly full or part time to fill a temporary vacancy or short term staffing shortages, however hours and placements cannot be guaranteed.
Our temporary roles will give you lots of variety in different environments and could be you “foot in the door” to the NHS.
(Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised).
To support the provision of Community Nursing care within the Integrated Community Nursing Team, providing scheduled and unscheduled care to the house bound population of Luton.
To assist in the assessment and implementation of holistic care provision.
To work with the Multi-Disciplinary Teams to prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
To ensure at all times patients are treated with care and compassion.
To accept responsibility for those patients whose care has been delegated to them by the Community Nursing Sister or Senior Nurse and ensure continuity of the nursing care by on-going assessment.
Escalate Risk as appropriate.
Assess and prioritise unscheduled requests for nursing intervention and allocate to the appropriately skilled clinician as appropriate.
To refer patients to other services / agencies as appropriate.
To organise own work as delegated by the senior nurse.
Delegate work to junior staff and learners as required
To assist in the assessment and implementation of care interventions to meet identified health needs of individuals, families and communities.
Maintain associated records.
To provide mentorship to pre- and post-registration nursing students

Please refer the Job description for details