Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Staff Nurse
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Job Description for Community Nurses
Community Nurses make a difference every day to the lives of the people they visit at home. We are proud of our Community Nurses who provide increasingly complex care for patients and support for family members to encourage patients to receive the care they need in their own home.
We are looking for experienced Adult Registered Community Nurses with a passion for high-quality nursing care and also experience in either acute medicine or Emergency Care. The post holder will provide acute nursing assessment & interventions in patients' own homes and will ensure that patients are referred onwards as appropriate to community services once their care episode is complete.
Rewards and Benefits
- Excellent learning and development to support you and develop your Nursing Career.
- Flexible working opportunities
- Free parking on Trust Sites
- Competitive Mileage Rates
- Enterprise Car Pool Scheme
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to training and developing its staff not only with clinical skills but also in leadership and managerial skills.
You'll also have access to our generous pension scheme and health service discounts, as well as generous annual leave plus bank holidays.
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As a Community Nurse, you'll
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- Assess the healthcare needs of patients and families
- Monitor the quality of care they're receiving
- Be professionally accountable for the delivery of care
- Utilize technology to enable you to update records as you go
Your patients could be any age, but they'll often be elderly, while others may have been recently discharged from hospital, be terminally ill, or have physical disabilities.
The service aims to provide an excellent standard of care that supports patients to remain in their home environment. In Northamptonshire, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in order to support the service and focus on delivering quality outcomes and improving the patient experience. You'll play a vital role in keeping hospital admissions and re-admissions to a minimum and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible.
Must Have Skills
- You will need to be adaptable and resourceful.
- You'll need to be well organized, confident, and able to cope in diverse situations to deliver patient care.
- Leadership and management skills are also important.
- As with all nursing roles, communication skills, problem-solving, and good judgment are crucial.
You will be part of a caring team and be able to work flexibly with minimum supervision, with the ability to prioritize work based on the patient need.
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Join us and become part of Team NHFT.
NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health, and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centered care, regardless of their background or circumstances.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our ‘outstanding’ rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development, and growth across our workforce.
At NHFT, we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense, which is why we are proud to be an accredited living wage employer. We aim to support financial wellbeing and create an environment where our people feel valued and able to thrive.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Laura Friary
- Job Title: Team Lead
- Email Address: Laura.Friary@nhft.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07783170127
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