Specialist Community Nurse
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
Our Community Services team based in the Scarborough locality is looking for band 6 Community Nurses. This clinical role involves both direct patient care & co-leading a team of nurses & HCAs.
You may already have the degree level Specialist Practitioner qualification or we can support you to undertake the course within a specified timescale. We know that your career development and the support that you receive is important. Here’s what a member of our team has to say about his experience: ‘I started with Humber as a newly qualified nurse 5 years ago & have since completed my District Nurse Specialist Qualification which helped me to secure a band 6 role.I will soon start my prescribing qualification which will open many avenues in my nursing career. Humber are willing to support & help their staff to flourish in their careers.’
You will have a planned induction & we have a clear competency framework so you know what is expected within your role & can plan development of your competencies with support from your Clinical & Team Leaders.
In the community setting you need to be able to drive yourself around the locality & be comfortable with lone working including visiting patients in their own homes alone.
Specialist advice is readily available due to our integrated community service also including Therapists, Pharmacists, Tissue Viability, Continence, Cardiac, Diabetes, Dietetics, Speech & Language & Respiratory Specialists.
Main duties of the job
Community Nursing is a highly specialised area of practice recognised by the Queens Nurses Institute and NMC as a specialist role. As a District Nurse/Senior Community Nurse, you will work within an integrated hub model of District Nurses, Specialist Nurses, Community Staff Nurses, Therapists, Trainee/Registered Nursing Associates, Associate Practitioners, and Health Care Assistants to meet the needs of the complex patient in the community and avoid admissions to the acute sector as far as practicable. This includes:
- Intravenous Antibiotic administration,
- End of life care,
- Managing the deteriorating patient,
- Complex and simple wound care including VAC therapy and compression therapy,
- Venepuncture,
- Utilising advanced physical assessment skills and many more clinical nursing skills.
- Provision of high quality, patient centred clinical care
- Caseload Management;
- Leading a team of Community Nurses and support staff including provision of supervision - both clinical & managerial;
- Working with other Band 6 District/Community Nurses to ensure adequate staffing and share resources and learning;
- Induction, probation & competency development of new staff recruited to team;
- Referral to and working alongside Specialist Clinicians & other agencies;
- Engagement with Safety Huddles;
- Actively encourage prevention and self-management;
- Carry out audits;
- Engage in working groups to inform service development.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria- Degree/diploma in adult nursing
- NMC Registration
- Full understanding of the practice area and specific role applied for demonstrated on application
- V300 Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
- Specialist Practitioner (District Nursing) qualification
- Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility
Experience
Essential criteria- Previous community based experience or band 6 experience transferrable to community setting
- Evidence of development of specialist practice nursing skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
- Demonstrable experience of working in Community Nursing at band 6 level
- Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria- Able to effectively transport self between multiple addresses/venues on a daily basis including transporting equipment & clinical stock required for treatment
- Familiar with using SystmOne
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
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On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.
To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)
This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.
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