Job Purpose -Monday-Friday 8:00-16:30
To provide skilled nursing care working under the supervision of the Community Nurse Team Lead and Deputy Team Lead to patients in a variety of community settings.
The post holder will undertake community nursing duties involving delivery of nursing services and holistic assessments of patients health needs using a person centred approach. This includes providing quality and seamless nursing care to housebound patients and being proactive in co-ordinating their care needs as appropriate, avoiding unnecessary admission to hospital or long term care institutions. In addition, the post holder will be involved in facilitating self-care for patients with long term conditions, health promotion and innovative activities and projects that enhance patient service delivery.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
• To give skilled nursing care, based on principles of best practice and clinical evidence. This includes: Chronic disease management, end of life care, continence promotion and wound management. Specific skills include phlebotomy, administration of medication via syringe drivers and intravenous therapy, PEG management, urinary catheterisation and tracheostomy suctioning.
• Act as a Named Nurse with the support and supervision of the DN Team Lead. To take continued responsibility for the holistic health needs assessment including care planning, evaluation and appropriate implementation of health care and ensuring continuity of care following referral from acute care, rehabilitation units, GPs and other agencies.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical, psychological and social care needs of patients using the Single Assessment Process and including the needs of carers. To provide individualised and person centred care plans that provide monitoring and promotion of self-care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions
• Act as the patient’s advocate and to facilitate the patient’s own choices with regard to nursing care, promoting independence and self-care, as appropriate.
• To identify and record new problems and other relevant information reporting back to the DN Team Lead as appropriate.
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
• To participate in the implementation and monitoring of the Trust’s clinical and operational guidelines and policies.
• Be aware of, and act in accordance with, the Trust’s Organisational and Clinical Guidelines and Policies.
• To be aware of, and act in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and other professional Guidelines.
• To ensure the safe handling of body fluids and contaminated sharps.
• Be alert to the needs of vulnerable adults including risk assessment and taking appropriate action when required.
• To develop and utilise specialist nursing skills such as leg ulcer assessment and management, syringe driver set up, intravenous drug administration, continence assessment, and palliative care.
• Support patients and their carers with managing their medicines and undertaking medicines management reviews as directed.
• To provide care to people with long term conditions undertaking reviews in accordance with the individual patient care plan and with support of more experienced colleagues as required.
This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Nov 2024