Bank - Community Nurse Band 5

4 months ago

Essex, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

We are looking for experienced Community Band 5 Nurses to work on a temporary basis, as and when required, who will support the team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust’s mission of “best care by the best people”.

You should have recent community experience and will need to be a reliable, enthusiastic and self-motivated individual who is able to integrate quickly and work as part of the team. You will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to travel effectively and efficiently throughout all localities and surrounding areas is integral to the post.

 Please ensure you meet the person specifications and have the relevant qualifications required for the role.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:


1. Provide nursing care to patients as delegated by the Senior Nurse. Evaluate care plans and assess on-going needs within own level of competency.
2. Observe, record and report all changes to other members of the team within twenty-four hours.
3. Awareness of current evidence based approaches to patient care and demonstrates this in practice.
4. Work in partnership with the patient to achieve optimum levels of self-care as agreed on nursing care plan.
5. Document changes accordingly on the care plan which are dependent upon competencies in agreement with the Senior Nurse.
6. Demonstrate, teach and supervise the nursing care that families can safely undertake, advising as necessary in line with own competency.
7. Advise the family on prevention of illness and accidents within own level of competency.
8. Under the guidance of the Senior Nurse assess the need for service aids and equipment and to ensure that those provided are used appropriately and safely.
9. Ensure that the service aids and equipment are used in accordance with manufacturer’s guidelines and to notify all known hazards to appropriate personnel.
to the Senior Nurse any deficiency in the provision of service aids and equipment.
11.Maintain accurate nursing records in accordance with NMC and Trust policy.
12.Actively participate in the Intravenous Therapy Service at home and manage patients accordingly.

Working for our organisation

We operate a Temporary Staffing service and offer our Bank Staff excellent benefits including:

Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay; Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay; My Trust Benefits discount scheme; Access to the NHS pension scheme; Paid mandatory training; Opportunities for locally agreed training; Flexibility of hours/location; Priority over agency staff for booking shifts; Free uniform; Opportunity to apply for permanent posts.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main duties of this post are outlined fully below and in the attached job description

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

RGN

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience working as a community/District nurse or equivalent Able to deliver core service requirement

Skills

Essential criteria

Commitment to the provision of high quality care

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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