Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews has an exciting opportunity available for an experienced Band 6 Senior Community/District Nurse to join a well-established team based in Stoke-on-Trent.
Banding/Grade: Band 6
Pay Rate: £26.78 - £41.12 per hour (assignment rate)
Job Type & Hours: Locum, 3-month contract, full time
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years’ experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Duties:
- Provide triage assessment, clinical support, assistance and professional expertise to all health care professional referrers requiring assistance and support with Admission Avoidance
- Offer clinical triage and support where appropriate
- Signposting the referral caller to the appropriate service, making a direct referral to another service or offering immediate clinical advice or treatment
- Represent the organisation in a professional and courteous manner at all times and provide advice and information using a level of clinical understanding and professional judgement
- Work independently, exercising assessment and evaluation skills to full ability in order to avoid inappropriate hospital admissions, adjust care programmes as professionally judged to be necessary, and instigate changes in care that are evidence based and in the patient’s best interests
- Establish and maintain excellent communication links with all Health and Social Care Professionals
- Accept responsibility for doing a quality job, aspire to achieve, share a corporate pride in achievements and strive to act as an ambassador for good quality
Requirements of the Senior Community/District Nurse:
- R.G.N Level 1 with current NMC registration
- Familiarisation with and adherence to Safeguarding policies is an essential requirement of all employees as is participation in related mandatory/statutory training
- Demonstrate a commitment to provide customer focussed services and to continuously enhance the customer experience
- Be aware of current health and safety policies and attend all mandatory health and safety training
- Be impartial and honest in the conduct of their official business
- Physical Health Assessment
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Proven ability to prioritise
- Experience of working in a changing unpredictable environment
- Evidence of working in a patient focussed environment
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
- Can demonstrate knowledge of research based practice
- Knowledge of Primary care working
- Able to communicate effectively with health care professionals and team members
- Able to demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of community services
- Able to prioritise workload and remain calm whilst working in a pressurised environment
- Ability to identify risks and act accordingly with regard to safety of patients and others
- Ability to manage distressed/conflicting professionals/patients/family with needs who telephone the Hub
- Ability to empathise when delivering sensitive information
- Keyboard/IT skills
- Triage Skills
- Holistic Assessment Skills
- Experience of multi agency working
- Self motivated, flexible, adaptable and good communicator
- Able to clearly understand limitations
- Able to work under pressure
- Aptitude for clinical reasoning
- Proven ability to prioritise
- Able to demonstrate use of won initiative in ever changing circumstances
- Experience of working in a changing unpredictable environment
Contact:
This Senior Community/District Nurse job is advertised by William Copeland; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Registered General Nurses who meet the above requirements.Regretfully we are only able to respond to Nurses who meet these requirements for this RGN role as we need to meet our clients requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
