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    Community Nurse - Hereford, United Kingdom - Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

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    Description

    Job summary

    An exciting opportunity has arisen to join HerefordshireCommunity Learning Disability Teams as a Band 5- 6 Community LearningDisability Nurse based at Liverpool Court, Commercial Road, Hereford.

    The successfulapplicant will become part of a small but tenacious and committed team who arepassionate in ensuring that individuals with a learning disability receiveequitable health care alongside managing an effective caseload and maintainingregular visits for service users and their carers.

    The team arecurrently involved in some exciting service developments including STOMP,Dementia pathway, transitions pathways to better meet the needs of individualswith learning disabilities. We welcome creativity, enthusiasm, and passion inthis team with a go for it attitude to best meet patients health needs.

    You willreceive regular individual and group supervision, on-going CPD & training,and support within this role to help further develop yourskills and competencies in this specialist field.

    Weoffer flexible working and full equipment provided for home working. Due to therural landscape of the county, being a car driver is essential but there alsoare good public transport links to the main base.

    Herefordshireand Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust also supports its staff with a widerange of benefits including car leasing, health and wellbeing support, carerpassports and staff networks LGBTQ+ as you are important to us

    Main duties of the job

  • Actively manage aneffective caseload, maintaining regular visits for service users.
  • Facilitate/teacheffective systems to carers to enable the transfer of skills required for themanagement of service users healthcare needs.
  • Facilitate HealthAction Plans for each service user on caseload, to enable access to the fullrange of primary and secondary care services available.
  • Promote and maintaingood working relationships and systems of effective communication throughliaison with service users, carers, and other professionals / agencies.
  • Maintain accurate andup to date clinical records in line with Trust/NMC standards of practice.
  • Record activity to meetthe requirements of Patients Information Management System.
  • Attend team andmulti-professional meetings as appropriate.
  • About us

    At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

    Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

    We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

    What we offer

    27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service

    Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

    Flexible and agile working opportunities

    Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support

    Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)

    Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes

    Health and wellbeing opportunities

    If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

  • Ensure the process of referral,assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care is efficiently andeffectively delivered with clear quality outcomes.
  • Promote the values andprinciples of person-centred planningapproaches, maintaining effective continuity of care.
  • Undertake specialisthealthcare assessments, ensuring referral evaluation, data analysis andintervention planning is identified to enable service access.
  • Implementation,monitoring, and evaluation of therapeutic nursing interventions based on acomprehensive assessment using a recognized nursing model of care.
  • Forfull details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the jobdescription and person specification attached.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • RNLD
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer
  • Desirable

  • 705 or equivalent
  • NVQ D32/33
  • Experience

    Essential

  • Complex healthcare needs
  • Working with families
  • Person Centred approaches
  • Risk assessment
  • Promoting health and well being
  • Health Action planning
  • Desirable

  • Previous Community Nurse experience
  • Joint working/networking with other agencies
  • Care pathways in Epilepsy/ Challenging Behaviour/Mental Health
  • Staff training
  • Audit/research
  • Awareness of models of clinical supervision
  • Risk management strategies
  • Total Communication
  • Vulnerable adults/child protection procedures level 1, level 2
  • Defensible documentation and recording
  • Additional Criteria

    Essential

  • Able to meet the travel requirements of the role
  • Knowledge

    Essential

  • Good knowledge of working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers
  • Good knowledge of making reasonable adjustments for people with learning disabilities and vulnerabilities
  • A good level of knowledge of current policies and legislations that impact upon people with a learning disability
  • A good level of knowledge in a wide range of common health care conditions in people with learning and other disabilities and vulnerabilities including common long term conditions
  • Child protection and vulnerable adults procedures
  • National guidelines - role of Community Nurse
  • Mental Health Act
  • Desirable

  • Knowledge of Valuing People health objectives Mencap Treat me Right Valuing Health for All
  • Health Action Planning and Health Facilitation, Annual Health checks
  • LeDer Priorities
  • Knowledge of the transforming agenda
  • Knowledge of STOMP
  • Community Care Act 1993 Community/continuing care assessment
  • Skills & Abilities

    Essential

  • Report writing
  • Effective communicator
  • Clinical documentation
  • Developing assessment formats
  • Facilitative skills
  • Good negotiator
  • Time management
  • Good organisational skills
  • Presentational skills
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Problem solving
  • Counselling

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