Job Description
Community Night Nurse
Salary: £27,055 - £32,934
Hours: Full Time and Part Time
Location: Anstey Frith House, Glenfield Road, Leicester.
Who are DHU?
DHU Health Care is an ever-growing & innovative organisation, providing high level clinical care for a variety of communities within an expanding geographical area.
DHU Urgent care delivery and develops first class services specially in integrated primary and community urgent care services.
Compassionate – we show kindness, consideration and understanding in everything we do – and demonstrate our caring nature to our patient, people, and communities.
Accomplished – we are available day and night – a response, adaptable, professional NHS partner, providing the best advice, care, and treatment for every individual.
Respectful – we recognise the value that individual and team difference bring – welcoming views, listening, being honest, and learning from others’ experiences.
Encouraging – we believe everyone matters, so we inspire confidence in other – promoting ‘speaking up’, fostering career-long learning and development, and supporting improvement ideas.
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The purpose of this role is to provide autonomous intensive community support/ nursing and palliative nursing care to patients with overnight care needs. The Community Staff Nurse will have the ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions. This will involve the coordination and prioritization of the current caseload. The role will also provide training and education both formal and informal for the continuous development of junior night nursing staff.
Day in the life
The post holder will be required to work flexibly as part of a team and autonomously to address patient’s health and social care needs across community care settings overnight. The post holder will act as a resource and role model to offer expertise, in partnership with care teams and multi-agency services to meet the integrated care needs of patients that fall within the parameters of the night nursing service.
The post holder will be responsible for providing advice and support to junior staff in the delivery of high-quality care and actively support the Community Nursing team in the management of the health care environment.
The Community Staff Nurse will be part of a multi-professional/skilled team including medical, nurse practitioners and support staff providing accessible services to the population across Leicestershire.
- Be responsible for the assessment, implementation of treatment and the development of programs of care for designated patients and provide feedback / escalate discussion regarding meeting patient need through supervision/monitoring processes.
- To provide nursing care to individuals making use of current evidence to inform the delivery and promote the development of clinically effective care.
- To ensure a continuity of care in accordance with the care programme, seek support from other specialist practitioners/operational managers as required.
Full duties outlined on the job description.
Essential Qualifications
- Registered Nurse Adult 1 / 2
- Post registration experience at Level 1.
- A recognized teaching/mentoring qualification OR willingness to undertake necessary training.
- Relevant academic qualifications in specialist subjects
- Full UK driving licence
Benefits of DHU
- Educational funding and support (MSc level e.g Non-medical Prescribing)
- NHS continuous service honoured for annual leave, sickness, and pension.
- Enhanced Holiday entitlement
- Birthday leave
- Enhanced Maternity and adoption Leave
- Indemnity cover included.
- Access to Westfield Health, dentist etc
- Free parking at DHU bases
Key Areas of Responsibility & Accountability
- Be responsible for the assessment, implementation of treatment and the development of programs of care for designated patients and provide feedback / escalate discussion regarding meeting patient need through supervision/monitoring processes.
- To provide nursing care to individuals making use of current evidence to inform the delivery and promote the development of clinically effective care.
- To ensure a continuity of care in accordance with the care programme, seek support from other specialist practitioners/operational managers as required.
- Identify need, and provide advice, support and demonstration to the patient/carer on the use of the equipment to ensure a personal duty of care and compliance with health and safety policies. To monitor and report to senior nurse effectiveness of equipment and aids in patients homes to maximise the use of resources to enable care packages to be delivered.
- Maintain and record accurate health records in patients homes and health care settings in line with Caldecott and DHU Policies and Procedures.
- Contribute to Public Health and Health Promotion initiatives and under the direction of the Primary nurse provide information to support well-being and independence for patients/relatives and carers.
- Attend all operational meetings including team meetings.
- Develop, evaluate and share good working practice.
- Participate in the clinical governance requirements within the work of the organisation.
- Maintain an awareness of individual responsibilities in relation to clinical governance.
- Practice within the parameters of policies, protocols and guidelines.
- Participate in the clinical supervision framework for nurses within the Company.
- Offer appropriate advice to nurses and other professions on care practices, delivery and service development within the parameters of the role and scope of practice.
- Participate in the ongoing individual professional development within the organisation.
- Fulfil the professional regulatory requirements for post-registration education and development.
- Participate in the placements of pre-registration nurse students and contribute to the learning environment for observers from other health disciplines and to new staff induction to provide a supportive workplace and a culture of continuous learning and evidence based practice.
- Undertake training relevant to the Community Nursing service which has been agreed and identified via the appraisal process.
- To be involved in the education and training of junior staff and other staff employed within the care settings.
- Maintain an active registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council on the part of the Register relevant to the post.
- Work within the regulatory requirements, codes and guidance of the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Staff within DHU Health Care CIC and related organisations.
- Clinical and managerial staff within participating Primary Care Trusts.
- Clinical staff in local primary and secondary care services.
- Out of Hour and other related services within the local health economy.
- Keeping our patients, the public and ourselves safe and well is part of every role in DHU. To maintain high levels of safety all staff are encouraged to openly report incidents and any risk identified in Datix or where not possible to use Datix to report through the Duty Supervisor Shift report.
- As you will expect the organisation may change from time to time and you will be expected to meet the operational requirements.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £27,270.00-£32,934.00 per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Anstey, Leicestershire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Nursing: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- NMC Nursing Qualification (preferred)
- Driving Licence (preferred)
Work Location: In person
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