Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service Nurse; Night Nursing

A nights-only nursing post in the Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service of the Dorset Integrated Urgent Care Service, with community visits across the county. The work is face-to-face autonomous nursing care for adults referred to the team, including palliative care at home, plus telephone triage and driving the service's vehicles. It suits a registered nurse who wants to work within a multidisciplinary team of nurses, paramedics and GPs, on full or part-time hours of at least 23 a week.

Visa sponsorship is not offered.

• Deliver face-to-face autonomous nursing care to adults referred to the team, in their own homes and in community, residential or healthcare settings
• Take responsibility and accountability for own professional practice and act as dedicated shift lead as needed
• Provide direct care to patients requiring palliative care
• Promote and sustain independence and wellbeing for the individual or carer
• Work alongside a healthcare assistant and a multidisciplinary team of nurses, paramedics and GPs
• Support managerial and clerical duties at the St Leonards hub, including telephone triage with patients, relatives and healthcare professionals
• Undertake personal development reviews for junior staff
• Ensure medical instructions are understood, followed and recorded
• Maintain the equipment provided in good order
• Drive IUCS vehicles across Dorset, sharing driving within the pairing
• Use the stocked nursing equipment in the vehicles, such as catheters, wound dressings and palliative care stock, during visits

• Registered practitioner training to degree or diploma level
• Learning and Assessing in Practice qualification or equivalent practice assessor training
• Recent professional development in an up-to-date portfolio and willingness to advance clinical knowledge on current evidence

• NMC registration
• Membership of the relevant professional body

• Recent experience in a comparable role
• Supervised experience gained during clinical placements
• Experience of developing programmes of care for individuals or groups and giving advice
• Experience of demonstrating duties to junior staff, and of planning and organising own time and that of junior staff and learners

• Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of practice
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
• Experience of electronic patient or service user record systems, and of evaluating data and producing reports in Excel and Word

• Enhanced or Standard DBS check
• Valid right to work in the UK without sponsorship
• Full valid UK driving licence

• Written and spoken English to a standard enabling full performance of the role

• Post-qualification experience in an autonomous setting or role
• Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff

• Professional development opportunities
• Career progression opportunities
• Trust covers the cost of the DBS check
• Rota patterns discussed at interview stage