Job Description
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below. More detail about the role Community nursing careers roadshow Please pop along to our recruitment event at Exmouth Hospital on Saturday 12 August between 9am - 12.00pm to find out more about working as a community nurse at the Royal Devon. Ready to apply? Well be holding interviews at this event in Exmouth for Community Nursing, Urgent Community Response, Inpatient wards and Out of Hours at our locations across beautiful Devon.
Future roadshow dates Saturday 9 September, 9am - 12pm, Honiton Hospital, EX14 2DE Saturday 7 October, 9am - 12pm, North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple, EX31 4JB Every day you will make a huge difference to the lives of the people we care for, delivering a high standard of care alongside your colleagues. Community based nursing is a key element in the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan. Join us to maximise your potential whilst working with our teams who are caring, compassionate and inclusive. Whatever your background, you will be made to feel welcome and supported.
Bespoke training and support Youll be provided with funded training packages, personal and professional development, with regular supervision. To reflect your skills and experience, youll be given an individualised induction and all colleagues join our buddy scheme to help you settle into your new role. If youre newly registered, youll also have the additional support of our Preceptorship Programme. Career progression Well support you to achieve your career progression aspirations at a pace youre comfortable with.
There are great opportunities to expand your clinical experience, and people management skills, plus a fantastic range of career pathways from band 5 to band 8. Nursing in community hospitals Our community hospitals are nursing and therapy led and available seven days a week, 24 hours a day providing rehabilitation and nursing care. Our ethos is to make every contact count in relation to achieving patient and carer-centred outcomes/goals, with the aim to optimise health, wellbeing and independence. Community hospital Registered Nurse You will focus on the holistic care of the patients and their clinical needs.
Working with the strength-based approach, tasks like medication rounds focus on promotion of self-medication with our patients who have been assessed as being safe to do so in preparation to go home. You will enable, monitor and review this process, reporting progress to the Multi-Disciplinary Team. Your contribution is invaluable and being aware of patients goals and actions are imperative to enabling and lead the discharge without delay. In the community nursing Working within clinics, health centres, care homes and patients homes, you will be supporting the delivery of a wide range of clinical interventions including end of life care, wound care management and long-term condition management as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team.
For in the community roles, you must hold a current UK driving licence and have access to appropriate transport, as the post involves predominantly working independently, maximising place-based care. Community Nurse Youll have your own caseload and work closely with nursing colleagues, members of the multidisciplinary team, social care and voluntary sector, playing a vital role in avoiding patients being admitted to hospital and in supporting patients to be discharged back home. In delivering this, you will undertake defined clinical or therapeutic interventions as assessed and documented in the treatment plan in line with patient-centred goals. In this role youll gain experience working as an autonomous practitioner, holistically assessing physical and psychosocial needs, planning, managing, implementing and evaluating individual programmes of patient care.
Youll also promote self-care and independence and act as the patients advocate as necessary. This service is provided 8am to 5pm, seven days a week. Urgent Community Response Nurse Youll be part of the nursing, paramedic and therapies team caring for patients who have been identified as needing urgent care within a 2-hour response time, aiming to prevent admissions to hospital. Referrals are received from GP practices, 111, the ambulance service and care homes.
In this role no two days will be the same and youll be able to use your nursing skills and experience across a wide variety of conditions and patient groups. This might include responding to a patient who has had a fall, treating a new wound or illness and support with long-term health conditions. Youll be able to utilise your triage, assessment and diagnostic skills to provide care to patients and support their carers in managing the patients condition. This service is provided 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.
Out of Hours Nurse Youll care for patients in their homes to prevent hospital admission. Referrals are received from Out of Hours Doctors service, hospice and the Community Nursing team. In this role youll be able to hone your skills across a wide range of conditions management, end of life care and new illness and injury treatment. Working on your own and with Healthcare Support Workers, and the wider Community Nursing team, you will gain experience teaching and working autonomously.
This service is provided 4pm to 8am, seven days a week. Community Nursing and Urgent Community Response roles work from location listed below, inpatient wards and Out of Hours (OOH) listed in brackets after the location: Crediton, Moretonhampstead, Okehampton Woodbury, Exmouth (including inpatient ward) and Budleigh Exeter Honiton (Including OOH team and Ottery St Mary Sidmouth (including inpatient ward), Axminster and Seaton Tiverton (including inpatient ward) and Cullompton Barnstaple (Out of Hours & UCR) Ilfracombe and Braunton South Molton and Chulmleigh Bideford and Northam Torrington About you Experience of working in the community environment isnt required, we'll support you with that transition and you will already possess a vast amount of transferable skills essential for this role. Whether youre newly registered going into your first role, or have years of experience in an acute hospital setting, returning to practice, or work in the community for a private provider or another NHS trust youll receive a warm welcome to the community nursing team and youll be supported to fulfil your career ambitions. You will have excellent communication and assessment skills and will be responsible for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of personalised patient centred care in partnership with our patients and those important to them.
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week. A healthy work-life balance is essential and Devon is a great place to enjoy it. Registered Nurse roles within the Community team have a wide variety of hours and shift patterns to suit you in full or part-time positions. Depending on the role there may be a requirement for weekend working on a rota system.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has a flexible working policy that we are happy to discuss to establish suitable options for you and the department. Interview Date: Saturday 12 August 2023 between 9:00am and 12:00pm For further information please contact Stephanie Hunter on rduh.careers@nhs.net Preference will be given to staff with Priority and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon. The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received. The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team. This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us. We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies. If you're starting out in the NHS, you'll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays. You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including: National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts. Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter Car lease schemes. The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
Cycle to work scheme These are just a few of the benefits available if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
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