Bank B5 Community Nurse - Herts | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

• To provide skilled nursing care working under the supervision of the Community Nurse Team Lead and Deputy Team Lead to patients in a variety of community settings.
• The post holder will undertake community nursing duties involving delivery of nursing services and holistic assessments of patients health needs using a person centred approach. This includes providing quality and seamless nursing care to housebound patients and being proactive in coordinating their care needs as appropriate, avoiding unnecessary admission to hospital or long term care institutions. In addition, the post holder will be involved in facilitating self- care for patients with long term conditions, health promotion and innovative activities and projects that enhance patient service delivery.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team in order to facilitate patient choice and independence
• To effectively communicate complex and sensitive patient information to colleagues within the district nursing service and to multi-disciplinary team members involved with patient care.
• To be aware of, and act in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and other professional Guidelines.
• To provide care to people with long term conditions undertaking reviews in accordance with the individual patient care plan and with support of more experienced colleagues as required.
• Undertake nutritional assessments and advice and support patients with their nutritional needs. For example PEG feeds.
• To identify and record new problems and other relevant information reporting back to the DN Team Lead as appropriate.

We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.

• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.

We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.

• To give skilled nursing care, based on principles of best practice and clinical evidence. This includes:

Chronic disease management, end of life care, continence promotion and wound management. Specific skills include phlebotomy, administration of medication via syringe drivers and intravenous therapy, PEG management, urinary catheterisation and tracheostomy suctioning.

• Act as a Named Nurse with the support and supervision of the DN Team Lead. To take continued responsibility for the holistic health needs assessment including care planning, evaluation and appropriate implementation of health care and ensuring continuity of care following referral from acute care, rehabilitation units, GPs and other agencies.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical, psychological and social care needs of patients using the Single Assessment Process and including the needs of carers. To provide individualised and person centred care plans that provide monitoring and promotion of self-care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions
• Act as the patient’s advocate and to facilitate the patient’s own choices with regard to nursing care, promoting independence and self-care, as appropriate.

This advert closes on Friday 24 Jan 2025