Bank Community Nurse

Nottingham CityCare Partnership are actively seeking Bank Community Nurses!

Whether you are a registered nurse looking for extra shifts to boost your income or a flexible job that fits around your lifestyle, if you are a UK Registered Nurse you can join our Community Nurse Bank.

This is a flexible Community Nurse Bank role offering you a competitive hourly rate, with a choice of weekly or monthly pay. As a UK Registered Nurse, you can apply to join our Community Nurse bank. The role involves providing high-quality personalised assessment to patients in their own homes. Every individual who signs up to work for the bank plays their part in improving the experience of our patients, and we recognise just how invaluable your flexible approach to work is.

Working on the Bank gives you the flexibility to work the hours you want around your home and family life. CityCare have a plethora of shifts available to suit your lifestyle, with bases located across the whole of Nottingham.

Why join the CityCare Bank?

• Competitive hourly rates, plus weekend and bank holiday enhancements and holiday pay.
• Flexible working hours to suit you.
• Choice of Weekly or Monthly pay.
• Gain additional experience and training.
• Access to shift booking via your own smartphone.
• Priority shift booking for bank staff first!
• Supported by dedicated temporary staffing colleagues.

Insight visits are welcomed. For more information see the recruiting manager details.

Main duties of the job

Our Bank Community Nurses provide care to our patients and their families in the comfort of their own home, right across Nottingham City Centre. Bank Community Nurses work with a wide range of colleagues, patients and their families, ensuring the highest standard of care is provided. You will have the opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of areas and gain additional training as required.

The key elements to this role are providing support, information and advice to patients, their families and carers, and other professional colleagues as appropriate. Maintaining accurate, timely and comprehensive paper and electronic records of patient care delivered in accordance with any local, national and NMC guidance. Essential competencies required for the role are:

• Wound assessments.
• Compression.
• Diabetes.

About us

We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and care partners to achieve this. We are a value-driven, people business with a passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference every day to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently deliver high-quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise, we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to make a difference in people's lives.

CityCare values the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.

CityCare is an equal opportunities employer. We are positive about employing people with disabilities. If you require your application in a different format please contact Human Resources on 0115 8839418. CityCare is committed to the protection of vulnerable adults and children.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

To work as required within the CityCare Clinical Bank, responding to health and social care referrals with the aim of preventing admission to hospital, supporting the Discharge to Assess pathways, and promoting independence.

Working as an autonomous practitioner you will undertake comprehensive assessments to identify the appropriate service for the clients referred.

• Completing profession-specific and holistic assessments and evaluation as required.
• As part of the multi-disciplinary team, planning and developing goal-focused programmes for adults with a wide variety of complex physical and mental health needs, either in a community bed or in their own homes.
• Taking responsibility for continuing the ongoing development of high standards of clinical practice with an evidence-based focus.
• Working as an autonomous practitioner, supporting clinical triage to facilitate hospital discharges to a community bed or home.

Dimensions

• This post has no budgetary responsibility; however, the post holder is responsible for demonstrating cost consciousness.
• You may be required to work across different bases and community settings within Nottingham City.
• You will be responsible for managing the triage caseload; You must have excellent interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills, and be able to respond pragmatically to rapidly changing demands and circumstances.
• You will be required to participate actively in CityCare's training requirements.

Key Responsibilities Clinical

• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your work, including the management of clients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the clients.
• To gain valid informed consent and to identify through assessment clients who lack capacity. To work within a legal framework with clients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
• To undertake advanced comprehensive assessment and evaluation of adults presenting with a wide variety of complex physical and mental health needs, utilising a high level of investigative and analytical skills.
• To be responsible for carrying a client caseload and to provide highly specialist clinical reasoning in assessing, devising and evaluating individualised rehabilitation programmes with clients.
• To be responsible for coordinating the safe and timely discharge process from a variety of community settings, including community beds.
• To risk assess, advise and where appropriate provide equipment including teaching clients/carers in its use.
• To provide highly specialist advice, education and mentorship to the other staff and colleagues within the multi-professional teams around current best practice and evidence-based practice regarding the clinical management of clients. To drive quality, clinical service improvement and clinical excellence.
• To be responsible for own continuing professional development keeping abreast of new trends and developments. Attend relevant conferences and training courses, supporting junior staff to do the same. Incorporate new developments into clinical practice.
• To undertake CityCare's Holistic Worker Framework competencies.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Can you confirm that you are NMC registered and advise your years of experience as a Community Nurse?

Experience

• 1. Do you have other employment in the NHS? If yes, please provide details.
• 2. Have you worked for CityCare previously? If yes, please provide details.
• 3. Do you work for an agency currently? If yes, please provide details.
• 4. Are there any dates you would be unavailable for interview (holidays etc.)?

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£37,338 to £44,962 a year pro rata for part time.