Community Nurse

4 days ago


Shepton Mallet, United Kingdom Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you a compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) seeking a new opportunity? We have Community Staff Nurse position available within the team, based at Shepton Mallet Hospital.

Our service covers the urban and rural areas Mendip. This position includes dayshifts and are usually 8am-4pm, 9am-5pm or 10am-6pm. You will be required to also work twilight shifts (2pm-10pm) and one in four weekends which include additional unsocial hours enhanced payments. There are no night shifts. We offer flexible working solutions where possible to ensure a work life balance and part time hours will be considered.

You will need a driving licence with your own vehicle to visit patients. We offer a generous mileage allowance to cover the use of your car for NHS business, which includes both mileage and depreciation.

If you're a qualified RN looking for a rewarding challenge to advance your nursing career, join our friendly, and highly skilled team of nurses and support staff. We also welcome applications from newly qualified nurses, where we can offer you preceptorship to support and guide you in your new role.

Main duties of the job

As a community RN, you will provide care to patients in their homes, managing a range of complex health issues and collaborating with various other disciplines.

You will also work closely with the Hospital @ Home team, focused on preventing acute admission. You will develop a broad range of nursing skills, including IV medication administration, palliative and end of life care, complex wound management, catheter and continence care, diabetes management, PICC line care, medication administration, and drain tube management.

You will need to make autonomous clinical decisions and create holistic care plans, with the support of your colleagues and Team Leader. Comprehensive training and guidance will be provided by our Clinical Lead nurse.

About us

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan, there is truly something for everyone.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see job description for full details.

Community Nurse role is a varied enjoyable role providing nursing care within the patients own home. Community Nurse skills are vast and include wound care, medication administration, IVs, Compression, End of life care including syringe drivers and stat doses, PleurX drains, nephrostomy care, verification of death and much more.

We work closely with other community services and GP practices to ensure the best possible patient care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NMC pin

Desirable

Mentorship course

Experience

Essential

Community experience

Desirable

Community nurse skill set

Additional Criteria

Essential

Driving licence

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