Senior Staff Nurse - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Description

We are looking for Community Nurses

As a community nurse we will develop your wound care, palliative care, and long-term conditions, knowledge and skills supporting you to become an expert in assessment and care-planning to deliver quality care that is caring and compassionate.

If you are looking for a new challenge, or to just progress in your career, come work with CPFT Community Nursing Teams.

We have an exciting opportunity to onboard a new members to our Cambridge East Community Nursing Team, working with us, you will be fully supported to gain new skills and experience needed to deliver high quality nursing care to patients in their own home or residential setting in and around the Cambridgeshire villages.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.

You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle.

To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing, and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team.

To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
Provide support and education to peers, new staff non-registered staff and students.
To provide a high standard of care.

To provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient's own home this includes lone working, referring to specialist and advanced practitioners as needed.

To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions including referral to other services and equipment provision

*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community.

These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

To undertake holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills.
To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.

To promote independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.

Contribute to risk assessments and health and safety assessments and including immediately reporting any changes/newly identified risks.

To ensure that accurate and timely written records are kept which comply with the Trust policy and NMC guidance, reporting on any issues as appropriate.

RGN Level 1, RGN level 2
Evidence of professional development

Community Experience

Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care & service provision
Computer/ IT skills
Able to assess plan and implement care and formulate care plans.

Has a valid driving licence
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Sawston Medical Practice