Community Staff Nurse - Wallsend, United Kingdom - Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the District Nursing Service and Out of hours nursing service (OOHs) in North Tyneside and Northumberland as a Community Staff Nurse.

Various bases, post and hours offered, covering 8am-8pm as part of our District Nursing service and evening and nightshifts within OOHs, both covering 7 days per week. Flexible working between Days/OOHs considered.

We are looking for enthusiastic staff nurses to join our service. This is a fantastic opportunity to become a team member in an exciting service committed to providing patient centred care to patients in their own homes, residential care settings and in clinics. We are keen to provide our staff with development opportunities to enhance their skills, knowledge and career progression within the District Nursing/OOHs Service, while providing high quality and safe service in line with the Trust Values.

Main duties of the job

Community staff nurses work autonomously and as part of a team, reporting directly to their line manager, the community nursing team lead, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for a diverse group of patients with a wide range of conditions and health development and delivery of programmes of health and social delivery of care and support to patients with a terminal illness and their families including the provision of emotional and bereavement performance of skilled nursing care including aspects of assessment, wound management, palliative care and performance of diagnostic tests such as Ankle Brachial Pressure Index using Doppler and the interpretation of the results to decide further courses of action.Performance of procedures which require fine dexterity and skill such as venepuncture, drug administration by injection and the removal of sutures.Interpretation of results and the communication of these to patients blood glucose estimation. Explaining aspects of care to patients and carers allowing the opportunity to ask questions and raise concerns.Maintenance and promotion of high standards of professional practice including the sharing of approaches and experience with others.Maintain a duty of care to patients, carers and colleagues through the exercise of personal and professional accountability.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job responsibilities

Community staff nurses work autonomously and as part of a team, reporting directly to their line manager, the community nursing team lead, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for a diverse group of patients with a wide range of conditions and health needs.

Qualifications

Essential