Community Nurse - Band 5

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

• Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care
• Compassionate towards patients and their families
• An excellent communicator with the ability to work in a team
• Motivated toward personal development
• A full UK driving license holder with access to a car

An exciting opportunity has come up for the Adult Community Nursing Service. We are currently looking for a Band 5 Community Nurse to work across the Richmond areas based at Centre House, East Sheen. The service operates from 7 am until 7 pm.

Collaboratively working with our integrated rapid response teams, community matrons and social service colleagues is essential to ensure seamless care to our patient group.

Get your career in the right direction, with the right organisation and at the right time - please come to KRFT and be part of this organisation.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality, skilled nursing care and to assist the Community Nursing Team Manager in the ongoing planning, implementation, and evaluation of the holistic needs of the patient/client, family, and/or carer.

Deliver high quality nursing care to housebound patients with complex needs to enable them to remain in their own homes. Working closely with specialist nurses, allied health and social care professionals to meet the needs of the patients without unnecessary attendance in A&E or being admitted to hospital.

This will involve working independently but as part of the Community Nursing Team covering a particular geographical area. This will include first assessments and reviews, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of individual programmes of care. Candidates will be expected to be flexible to support a corporate approach to patient care as and when required.

About us

At KRFT, we only want to provide the type of outstanding care that we would recommend to our family and friends. We provide community healthcare and urgent treatment services to people living across the London borough of Richmond-Upon-Thames.

In the latest NHS Staff Survey results for community trusts, we had the highest percentage of staff in the country who felt their role made a difference to patients. We also had top scores for satisfaction with the quality of care staff can deliver.

We are the top community trust in the country for staff engagement, quality of care, and quality of appraisals, according to the theme results in the 2019 staff survey.

Our job is all about people, and we believe that staff who feel valued and supported deliver better outcomes for our patients, so we invest in our people and their ideas.

Job responsibilities

***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification.***

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Level 1 Registered Nurse with valid registration with the NMC - RN1, RNA
• Experience or recognised qualification in areas such as: Health Promotion, Diabetes, Care of the older person, Continence, Palliative care, Medical/Surgical Nursing

Experience

• Recent experience of Nursing at Level 5, or evidence of a back to nursing programme
• Experience of working in the community setting
• One year of post-registration experience in a relevant setting, e.g., palliative care, care of the older person, orthopaedics, community services

Skills and abilities

• Ability to undertake a shift system
• Able to work without direct supervision
• Good communication skills effective with clients and colleagues
• Clinical skills - Administration of medications including injections, catheterisation, wound dressings
• Computer literacy and keyboard skills
• Access to a motor vehicle for use at work and a UK driving licence
• Demonstrates high standards of infection prevention and control
• Teaching skills

Knowledge

• Ability to converse articulately on current health issues, demonstrate knowledge in: Essence of Care, Team Working, professional standards including confidentiality and clinical governance, Adult Safeguarding, evidence of Continuing Professional Development, evidence-based clinical knowledge, health and safety and personal safety issues
• Knowledge of National Service Framework for Older People and other NSF's

Personal

• Ability to work effectively with a multidisciplinary team
• Reliable, empathetic, approachable, understanding, non-judgemental, and tolerant

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.

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

£34,521 to £41,956 a year including HCAS (outer)