Are you ready for a new challenge?
Could you make a difference?
Are you:
A Registered General Nurse
Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care
Compassionate towards patients and their families
An excellent communicator with the ability to work in a team
Motivated toward personal development
A full UK driving license holder with access to a car
An exciting opportunity has come up for a Band 5 nurses with the Tissue Viability Team
Collaboratively working with our integrated rapid response teams, community matrons and social service colleagues are essential to ensure seamless care to our patient group.
Get your career in the right direction, with the right organisation and at the right time – please come to KRFT and be part of this organisation.
To provide high quality, skilled nursing care and to assist the Tissue Viability Team Manager in the on-going planning, implementation, and evaluation of the holistic needs of the patient/client, family, and/or carer. This is a clinic based role.
Deliver high quality nursing care to housebound patients with complex needs to enable them to remain in their own homes. Working closely with specialist nurses, allied health and social care professionals to meet the needs of the patients without unnecessary attendance in A&E or be admitted to hospital.
This will involve working independently but as part of the Tissue Viability Nursing Team covering a particular geographical area. This will include first assessments and reviews, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of individual programmes of care. Candidate will be expected to be flexible to support corporate approach to patient care as and when required.
At KRFT, we only want to provide the type of outstanding care that we would recommend to our family and friends. We provide community healthcare and urgent treatment services for people living across the London borough of Richmond-Upon-Thames.
In the latest NHS Staff Survey results for community trusts, we had the highest percentage of staff in the country who felt their role made a difference to patients. We also had top scores for satisfaction with the quality of care staff can deliver.
We are the top community trust in the country for Staff engagement, Quality of care and Quality of appraisals, according to the theme results in the 2019 staff survey.
Our job is all about people and we believe that staff who feel valued and supported deliver better outcomes for our patients, so we invest in our people and their ideas.
***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification***
This advert closes on Tuesday 26 Nov 2024