NHS Community Nurse (RGN)

Job Title: Band 5 Community Nurse (RGN)
Location: Isle of Wight
Type: Permanent
Salary: £28,407 - £34,581 per annum

Job Purpose:

Join our Integrated Community Nursing Team and contribute to providing exceptional nursing care for community patients. As a Community Nurse, you will play a crucial role in promoting a positive image of community nursing, delivering patient care, and educating patients, carers, and new team members.

Key Responsibilities:

Communication and Relationships:

• Maintain confidentiality in accordance with legal requirements and policies.
• Accurately manage written and electronic records, submitting data and claim forms as needed.
• Communicate with relatives/carers, offering support in collaboration with the District Nurse Team Leader.
• Participate in team and professional meetings/groups.

Analysis and Judgement:

• Identify service provision shortfalls and report them to the District Nurse Team Leader.

Planning and Organising:

• Safeguard the welfare of staff, patients, and carers, adhering to health and safety legislation.
• Participate in the assessment, implementation, and evaluation of care within the Integrated Locality Service.

Patient and Client Care:

• Initiate/participate in care assessments as part of an Integrated Locality Service.
• Ensure accurate maintenance of patient records and provide necessary nursing aids or equipment.
• Assist in the assessment of Continuing Health Care under the direction of the Case Manager.

Service and Policy Development:

• Adhere to policies, protocols, clinical guidelines, and care pathways at all times.

Managing Financial Resources:

• Promote a cost-effective and efficient service.

People Management and Development:

• Participate in induction programs for new team members.
• Contribute to community experience packages for professionals seeking insight into community nursing.

Managing Self:

• Maintain NMC registration and adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Participate in personal clinical supervision and annual appraisal with the District Nurse Team Leader.

Information System use and management:

• Effectively use IT systems, including SystmOne, for recording patient data and communication.

Involvement in Surveys and Research:

• Participate in nursing audits, research, and other projects directed by the District Nurse Team Leader.
• Contribute to education audits as required

General Compliance:

• Comply with Policies and Procedures, including risk management, health and safety, confidentiality, data quality, freedom of information, equality diversity and inclusion, and promoting dignity at work.

Requirements (Essential):

1. Registered nurse with current NMC registration.
2. Awareness of current issues in community nursing.
3. Clinically up-to-date.
4. Knowledge of the principles of manual handling and blood-borne diseases.

Physical Skills:

1. Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post-holder, e.g., car driver, lone working.
2. Car driver with a clean license.
3. Awareness of personal safety.
4. Attend annual update and complete e-learning modules for personal safety.
5. Contribute to promoting health and wellbeing.
6. Assist in the assessment of people’s health and wellbeing needs.

Aptitudes:

1. Professional/role model.
2. Flexible.
3. Good interpersonal skills.
4. Can demonstrate key competencies of the Behavioural Framework.
5. Contribute to learning and development activities.
6. Supervise people’s work.
7. Maintain quality in own work and encourage others to do so.
8. Support equality and value diversity.

Abilities:

1. Awareness of personal safety.
2. Organisational skills.
3. Ability to motivate others and maintain own motivation.
4. Monitor and maintain health, safety, and security of self and others.
5. Make changes in own practice and suggest improvements.
6. Promote, monitor, and maintain best practice in health, safety, and security.
7. Contribute to the improvement of services.
8. Enable people to learn and develop.

Communication Skills:

1. Good communication skills.
2. Develop and maintain communication with people about difficult matters and/or in difficult situations.
3. Collect, collate, and report routine and simple data and information.

Apply now through Sanctuary Personnel.