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Job role: Community Nurse
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: C9798-2313
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About the Job:
The post holder will:
- Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.
- Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
- Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.
- Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings to enable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This will be achieved through a combination of hands on clinical skills and knowledge to treat, educate and support patients on a designated caseload and by working with patients and their carers to assess, plan and implement appropriate packages of care.
- Regularly take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The post holder will have competencies in all of the following areas and will:
Clinical
- Work within the NMC Code.
- Be responsible for the initial assessment and review of patients, across a broad spectrum of clinical conditions, considering the holistic needs of patients, under the direction of the senior nurse.
- Provide clinical care, treatment, advice and interventions, including the transcribing and prescribing of medication if appropriate, through holistic assessment of patient need; and then planning, implementing and evaluating a person centred care plan as appropriate.
- Be responsible for admitting and discharging patients from the caseload.
- Undertake continuing health care checklist and fast track applications of on-going nursing need and where eligible commission packages of care from external agencies.
- Ensure clinical practice is patient-focussed and evidence-based, in accordance with NMC code and scope for professional practice.
- Assess mental capacity and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Actively contribute to the task of monitoring and evaluating standards of patient care, seeking to continuously improve the quality of care.
- Ensure care provided maintains the individuals privacy and dignity, values diversity and respects cultural and individual rights and choices.
- Delegate appropriately to more junior staff
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 supportive staff networks
- Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit our website.
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