Community Staff Nurse

Job overview

Join Nottinghamshire's Community Nursing teams and make a difference! We're looking for kind, caring, and compassionate nurses for our B5 vacancies. Whether you have community experience or not, we welcome you to be part of our supportive and highly encouraging team.

If you have the passion, drive, and ability to deliver high-quality care, we want you to join #TeamNottsHC.

Join us as a Band 5 Staff Nurse, part-time, in a substantive position. Our service operates from 8pm to 8am, seven days a week, offering flexibility in working hours. An additional team of Nurses and HCA’s offer a robust, reactive day Nursing team.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for providing skilled nursing care and will work flexibly supporting the team to deliver high quality integrated care. You will need to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable.

Providing integrated care following a holistic assessment which enables patients to be cared for in their own homes and clinic settings. You will facilitate the prevention of unnecessary hospital admission/re-admission by reducing the effects of ill health and disability and maximising the individual’s potential for independence.

Ability to triage and take charge of a shift in the absence of a Band 6.

A robust induction and competency-based development package will be provided. Newly qualified staff will be offered a preceptorship programme

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Working for our organisation

Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

• Deliver interventions that are evidenced based
• Be responsible for the safe monitoring, management and administration of medication
• Work autonomously, building leadership skills and advanced clinical assessment skills
• You will build effective relationships with patients, their carers, family and colleagues across the MDT
• You will develop exceptional planning and organisational skills
• You will be able to analyse care and treatment provided, and develop sound clinical decision making
• You will be trained to deliver high quality care and develop
• Knowledge in all areas including palliative care, leg ulcer management, acute and chronic wound care, understand bladder and bowel dysfunctions, provide supportive care to carers and family members
• You will delegate and support junior staff, building leadership skills
• You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
• A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

We would offer you:

• Clinical and managerial supervision.
• Full induction and training.
• Competitive mileage rates.
• No day shifts but the expectation that mandatory and essential training is completed within day time hours.
• Health and wellbeing service including but not limited too, occupational health, MSK services, staff counselling and support services.
• A range of flexible working options
• Incentive schemes: childcare scheme, lease care, and travel pass scheme
• Career progression and future secondment onto the Community Specialist District Nurse Programme

• Qualification
• Essential criteria
• Professional Qualification (RGN) to degree level or equivalent.
• Maintains current registration with the NMC
• Desirable criteria
• Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration
• Experience
• Essential criteria
• Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.
• Desirable criteria
• Specialist and area specific experience.

• Ability to work as part of a team
• Good written/oral communication skills
• Diplomatic, caring & sympathetic
• Ability to be flexible
• Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care.
• IT skills

In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria here https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification (RGN) to degree level or equivalent
• Maintains current registration with the NMC

• Demonstrates continued professional development to maintain professional registration

Experience

• Demonstrates continued professional development to maintain professional registration

• Specialist and area specific experience

Contractual

• A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Skills

• Ability to work as part of a team
• Good written/oral communication skills
• Diplomatic, caring and sympathetic
• Ability to be flexible
• Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care.
• IT skills
• Access to vehicle for work purposes

• We reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants.
• The Trust believes in treating everyone with dignity and respect and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. We guarantee an interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum essential criteria.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you. This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post. Should you require any further information please refer our Privacy Policy shown on the Trust website, please click here for more information.
• For eligible posts, DBS disclosures are mandatory before commencement of employment. If you are in a position that is deemed a regulated adult and/or child care role, you will not be able to start your employment until we have received a satisfactory DBS Disclosure. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Convictions which would otherwise be considered as 'spent' will also be checked as part of an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.