Senior Community Nurse

We are currently recruiting for a dedicated and motivated Band 6 Senior Community Nurse Or District tojoin our community nursing team covering the borough of Woking.

The Community Team visit patients in their own home as well as care homes. There are excellent opportunities for training and development of both your clinical and leadership skills. The team has experienced Clinical Leads who will ensure that you have the necessary support for your personal development. The community nursing service works over a 7-day week 8.00am to 8.00pm offering a variable shift pattern, and includes weekend and bank holiday working.

Individuals will be expected to deliver and maintain a high standard of clinical and professional Nursing Care and to assist in the delivery of all aspects of individualised patient care.

If you want:

• To help lead and shape a dynamic team
• Part or Full time work
• A flexible working culture
• To join a forward thinking, innovative organisation which puts its patients first
• To contribute to the provision of high-quality care within a local community

then we want to hear from you!

Please note we do NOT offer UKVIsponsorship, all applicants require right to work in the UK.

Please see the attached job description and personal specification for more details and requirements for the role.

CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surrey's largest and longestestablished NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees getNHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.

Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including thecare certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access tothe Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.

We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion,Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called

The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices areheard at Board level.

CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!

We welcome candidates fromall backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying forand if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the namedindividual for this advert, or our recruitment team.

Responsible for the delivery of care and for managingservice provision in accordance with national and local priorities,organisation policies, procedures and guidelines and in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Principal duties to include:

• Responsibility for a defined caseload of patients
• Is thenamed District Nurse for designated GP practices and attends all GSF and MDT meetings
• Undertakesfull nursing assessments of patients, including those with multiple pathologyand complex health and social needs
• Responsible for agreeing the patients care plan, liaising with others and adapting thecare and treatment delivered according to need and patient choice
• Responsible for the monitoring of medication regimes, assessing effects and advisingpatients on the safe storage and disposal of drugs
• Responsible for the correct use of aids and equipment supplied for patients and carers andfor the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained including equipment loaned to patients
• Recognisesown limitations in the provision of clinical care and urgency of patientsneeds, referring to other health care professionals accordingly and is accountable for his/her own actions often without direct supervision
• Maintains accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements this includes contemporary paper records and electronic patient record system
• Accountable for making autonomous clinical decisions in planning and prioritising patient care for District Nurse caseload including referrals to other agencies the admission / discharge from the service
• Responsible for recognising the needs of the service, identifying risk and making rapidautonomous decisions, escalating to the Team Lead and Clinical Lead as required
• Triagingwithin the District Nurse Referral Centre and promoting and embeddingtechnology within the work place
• Operationalline manager for District Nursing team (Band 5 RNs / Band 4 APs / Band 3
  
  HCAs)
• Effectively communicates with others involved in patient care at all times including weekends / out of hours, through the use of mobile phone, emails and fax toenable a timely response to patients needs.
• Maintains strong working relationships and communicates effectively with GPs, practicenurses, social services, acute / community hospital colleagues, borough councilstaff and the local voluntary sector
• Responsible for completing all own mandatory training and for ensuring this is completedfor all team members
• Participates in own annual appraisal and undertakes continuing professional…