About this role
Job summary
Are you an experienced Community Nurse wanting a new and exciting Challenge? This post is to work within the Community Nursing team to deliver unscheduled care to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and ensure patients receive a two hour response when clinically indicated.
We offer Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and NHS Pension. Procare are committed to supporting the development of all employees to their full potential and all employees working within the Procare Community Services adult community nursing service will additionally have access to the staff benefits, learning and development opportunities offered by the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
Are you an experienced Community Nurse, passionate for high quality patient care?
Are you seeking career development in a clinically led organisation, at the forefront of the revolution of community nursing?
Working within the Community Nursing team as a senior nurse you will support the Community Nursing team to ensure effective, efficient, safe, and high-quality nursing care for patients and carers, ensuring unnecessary hospital admissions are avoided and ensuring patients known to the Community Nursing team receive a two hour response when clinically indicated.
Post holders will be available to work Monday to Sunday between 8am and 8pm. A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post, however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Procare Community Services are not a UKVI sponsoring organisation, so all candidates are required to have their own independent right to work
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification to understand more about the opportunity this role presents you.
About us
The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.
With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.
We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.
Job description Job responsibilities
To deliver nursing care in accordance with national and local policy and guidance and in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The successful applicant will work within the Community Nursing service to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and ensure patients receive a two hour response when clinically indicated.
Job Purpose:
The post holder will ensure the provision of the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs, instigate, and provide clinical treatments using evidence-based practice to prevent hospital admissions.
The post holder will visit adult patients in their own home who have an identified nursing need including those with a long-term condition, complex care needs and needing care at home and at the end of life for physical and symptomatic nursing care
The post holder will use an electronic patient held record system, EMIS as a record of care and all our nurses are provided with a work Iphone and Ipad for mobile working
To ensure the Urgent Community Response Two Hour National standard is met for patients on the Community Nursing caseload with an urgent need.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Level 1 Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration Practice Supervisor and Assessor (to be completed within 1yr of post)
Skills, Knowledge & Experience Essential
Band 6 experience in the community setting Ability to prioritise visits in accordance with patient need and to organise workload without direct supervision Experience prioritising, and allocating assessments in accordance with patient clinical need and individual competencies Broad range of clinical skills relevant to Community Nursing, - including but not limited to Compression Bandaging, Dopplers, Venepuncture, Male & Suprapubic catheter, Syringe drivers and Palliative care Symptom Management. A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post, however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Procare Community Services
Address Milford Hospital
Tuesley Lane
Milford
GU7 1UG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.procarehealth.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)