Community Staff Nurse - Out of Hours Team

Role Overview

Do you want to be part of a team that consistently strives to deliver high quality care to patients in their own home?

Do you want to be proud of the care you deliver?

Are you passionate about providing and leading excellent effective care?

We are looking for Registered General Nurses to work in an innovative and dynamic District Nursing team based at Buckshaw Village Health Centre within our Out of Hours Team.

As part of LSCFT you will be supported to professionally develop and encouraged to continuously learn whilst considering new ways of working. You will be part of leading a team who are patient focused with excellence at its core!

Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (General/Adult), you will have post registration experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will have experience of carrying out a diverse range of clinical interventions and care including holistic assessment of needs, wound care, palliative and end of life care.

As a valued member of the team, you will provide holistic, high quality, clinically effective care to patients in their place or residence, working under the guidance and support of the Team Leader.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake responsibility for a delegated caseload under the supervision of the District Nursing Sister and in the absence of the District Nursing Sister, carrying out initial assessment of care needs and the provision and evaluation of individual patient programmes of care including prescribing equipment and the discharge of patients from the caseload.
• Assume delegated responsibility for holistic assessment and the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes of care/ care packages, contributing to complex assessment/ care packages.
• To provide high quality palliative care to patients and their families, as required.
• Work with other health care colleagues, voluntary and statutory organisations to ensure that the holistic needs of patients are met wherever possible.
• Where the post holder is a non-medical prescriber, practice responsibly and maintain competence to effectively prescribe from the relevant Prescribing Formulary.
• To carry out clinical risk assessments within sphere of competence as required.
• Work as an effective team member to actively contribute to public health initiatives including health needs assessment and projects to meet needs identified.
• To promote health education and healthy lifestyles within the community, including use of motivational interviewing and negotiation skills where appropriate.
• To demonstrate the safe use of equipment prescribed by the District Nursing team.