Band 5 – Community General Nurse / District Nursing – Herne Bay, Kent

Athona Ltd; Herne Bay; On-site; Full time

Job description

Job title: Band 5- Community Nurse

Rate for Role: (Band 5) (£22.00) Mon – Fri

Based at:

Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital

King Edward Avenue

Herne Bay

Kent

CT6 6EB

Location: Various PCN Locations in EAST KENT

Days & Hours: Flexible hours with a minimum of 22.5 hours per week (7.5 hours per day). Shifts can be flexible 8-4, 9-5 or long days 8am-6pm.

Job Summary: This role is part of the community nursing team visiting housebound patients in their own home. As a Community Staff Nurse, you will utilise knowledge and skills to work within the scope of your competencies and deliver nursing care to a designated caseload of patients. You will undertake holistic assessment of routine and complex patients in order to plan care in collaboration with patients and family that will meet nursing needs.

Working predominantly unsupervised, your work will be allocated on a daily basis to assess or provide the planned care required, document your intervention within the clinical record, report back your findings, and escalate any concerns to your seniors. You will participate in daily handover and undertake additional tasks required for the patients seen that day such as ordering equipment or liaising with GPs and colleagues.

Essential Skills:

1. Must drive and have access to own car
2. Rio access
3. Holistic patient assessment
4. Insulin administration & Glucose monitoring
5. Wound care
6. Injections

Please note that you will need to pick up weekdays to get access with weekends.

Minimum Requirements: To be considered for this role you need a minimum of 6 months NHS experience within the last 2 years.

Job description: To be considered for this post, applicants will need:

1. Full NMC registration
2. Enhanced DBS for Adult and Child

Why Athona: Athona is one of the UK’s leading on-framework healthcare recruitment agencies, with a reputation for building professional and personable relationships with our candidates and Trusts nationwide. After almost two decades in the business, we pride ourselves on taking great care and detail in every candidate that we place, and we believe that there is an art to being a good recruiter.

Negotiable excellent rates of pay, with weekly payroll.

One point of contact and 24/7 out of hours support available.

We’re CPD accredited.

Industry-leading revalidation and appraisal support team.

Benefit from our exclusive discount codes.

Referral scheme – receive up to £200 for Nurses recommendation.

If this job sounds of interest to you, get in touch by applying today to find out more.

Direct contact to: [e-mail]

Contact number: 01277245901