Cambridge - Community Nurse

Job overview

Do you wish to be a part of a team striving to make a difference in our community? Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to make a difference in patient care?

We are looking for a Band 5 Community Nurse to work within Countywide Out of Hours community Nursing team .

In these roles, you would be working at part of the wider Community Neighbourhood team which includes District/Community Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Mental Health Nurses and Team coordinators. Linking closely with colleagues including general practitioners and other members of the multidisciplinary team to support excellent nursing care at home, reducing the necessity for acute hospital admission.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for people who:

• Have experience of working in the Community
• Are educated to RGN level 1
• Are able to demonstrate a commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Have the ability to work flexibly and as part of a team
• Have the ability to assess and formulate care plans
• Are able to teach and support student Nurses and Health Care Assistants
• Have enhanced communication and inter personal skills

You will be responsible for:

• Keeping the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• Providing a high standard of care
• Providing a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient's own home, with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required
• Working as part of a 24/7 service and multidisciplinary team

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities:

• To work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated multi professional team
• To be accountable for assessing interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• Provide support and education of peers, new staff, non registered staff, and students
• To provide high standards of nursing intervention within a patients own home, this includes lone working , with access to specialist and advanced practitioners when required
• DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• RGN level 1, RGN level 2
• Evidence of professional development

• Mentorship qualification or equivalent
• Management of leg ulcer qualification

Experience

• Community experience

• Primary care experience and experience in wound care

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
• Good documentation skills
• Able to assess plan and implement care and formulate care plans
• Support Integrated Care Workers and teach and support student nurses and HCA’s.
• Ability to safeguard and promote welfare of children and young people/ vulnerable adults.
• Good communication skills
• Appreciates the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all children and young people/ vulnerable adults whatever their life circumstances.

• Understanding of clinical supervision

Knowledge & Understanding

• Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development
• Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
• Responsible for maintaining registration with NMC and/or other professional bodies

Physical Requirements

• Kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments
• Travel around work base locality
• Move and manoeuvre people and equipment
• Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people’s mental health services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.