District Nurse Band 7

We are seeking a compassionate, motivated District Nurse to join our community nursing team in Guildford and Waverley. This role is ideal for a registered district nurse who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in a community setting, supporting individuals to remain independent in their own homes.

You will work autonomously as well as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing skilled nursing care to patients with a range of complex physical and long-term conditions.

We have lots of training and development pathways at every level through from band 3 to band 8. We provide a preceptorship program to support you in your role and ongoing training and development.

We use electronic clinical records through EMIS and a work IPad and IPhone will be provided.

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 the end of life.

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.

The community nurse will use a range of nursing skills including venepuncture, wound care, catheterisation, syringe drivers, end of life care and symptom control and on successfully attaining all the competencies required will be reviewed for a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse post.

To deliver nursing care in accordance with national and local policy and guidance and in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

The post holder will clinically manage a team of nurses and health care assistants and is accountable for a caseload of patients and ensuring the effective, efficient, safe and high quality nursing assessment, treatment and delivery, and evaluation of nursing care for patients and carers.

The post holder will be the named District Nurse for a GP practice and will work closely with GP's, Practice Nurses, social care, local hospitals, specialist nurses, therapists, adult social care, hospices and palliative care teams, mental health services, the voluntary sector and others to help individuals manage their own conditions, maintain their independence and remain at home wherever possible.

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

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

The post holder will ensure that patients, services users, families and carers have a positive safe and high quality experience when accessing and receiving care, treatment, advice and support from Procare employees and will ensure learning is shared and embedded in situations where things did not go as well as they should have.

Patients are the most important people in the health service and are at the centre of primary and community health care services. As patients and carers are the experts in how they feel and what it is like to live with or care for someone with an illness or condition, all Procare employees are guided by real experience of our services to guidequality and service improvements.

Underpinning this philosophy is a Values Framework using the mnemonic PATIENT with the expectation that all Procare employees demonstrate behaviours both during the recruitment and selection process and every day at work against each area in the Values Framework Procare PATIENT Values Framework:

Person centred care with a client centred focus

Achieves clinical excellence, and inspires others

Teamwork, working together in an integrated environment because everybody matters

Integrity, in all that we do Experiences, are used for quality improvement and continuous learning

New ideas, for clinically and cost-effective care Takes care of self, our own personal wellbeing is paramount

Maintains strong working relationships and communicates effectively with GPs, practice nurses, Social Services, Mental Health, acute / community hospital colleagues, Borough Council staff and the local voluntary sector - particularly for patients receiving shared care to ensure an effective flow of patient information to ensure high quality care Attends all Gold Standard Framework and MDT meetings

Ensures regular meetings are in place with GP and Practice Nurse colleagues

Undertakes and documents holistic nursing assessments of patients, including those with multiple pathology and complex health and social needs with a plan of…