Farnborough Community nursing team are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced B6 nurse or District Nurse SPQ with a warm personality and great people skills.
You must have leadership experience and be able to demonstrate innovative practice.
You need to have effective management skills to take responsibility for caseload management of housebound patients with multiple nursing needs in the community with support from the Team Leader.
You will be responsible for ensuring high quality evidence-based care for patients, their families, and carers in the community.
This will include acting as a role model for staff, sharing learning and developing practice.
You must be a car driver with access to a vehicle for work. Mileage is claimable via the trust expenses system.
Main duties of the job
The role of the B6 Community Sister/District nurse/charge nurse to manage the day-to-day running of a community nursing team in conjunction with the Team Leader. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the community nursing team are functioning at a high level providing excellent patient care for patients who are on the community nursing team caseload. The post holder will be part of a supportive team of other B6 across the other teams covering the north east of Hampshire providing a 7-day service covering the hours of 8am to 8am. Job responsibilities
The post holder will: Clinically: Undertake holistic assessments of patients new to the community nursing service. Complete assessments such as Purpose T, MUST/MUAC, wound assessments for all patients on the caseload and ensure that all staff members are completing these assessments. Manage chronic wounds such as leg ulcers, pressure ulcers using best practice and NICE guidelines. Manage short term wounds such as surgical wounds. Manage patients with JVAC drains, lantern drains, pig tail drains and flushes when required. Care for PICC lines and chemotherapy disconnections. Full training will be given. Care for other central lines such as Mid lines, portacaths. Full training will be given. Undertake the administration of intravenous antibiotics in the community, bolus or infusion. Manage the caseload of patients requiring daily administration of Insulin, Dalteparin ensuring patients are also taught to self-manage their long term conditions such as Diabetes. Attend pressure ulcer panel to discuss patients who have developed a pressure ulcer whilst in the care of the community nursing team. Share the learning from pressure ulcer panel with the team. Ensure patients on the community nursing caseload have pressure relieving equipment in place or referred to the appropriate service for additional pressure relieving equipment for specialist items. Liaise with the patients GP when needed and communicate effectively with the GP practice to build relationships with our GP colleagues. Be part of the Integrated care team, attending weekly MDT meetings in the absence of a community matron. Be the patients advocate when needed. Refer patients to safeguarding when required, understand the need for safeguarding patients in the community setting. Ensure staff are completing their electronic records in line with trust policy and within the NMC guidelines. To adhere to the NMC standards. Provide excellent end of life care to patients who wish to be cared for in their homes, ensuring communication and care is joined up with other services such as the local hospice. Provide excellent palliative care and symptom management to the patients with a terminal diagnosis, sign posting, referring on to other services such as living well, local hospice, CNS. Liaise with the tissue viability service, complete referrals to the TVN service for patients with chronic leg ulcers, pressure ulcers or other wounds that require the expertise of the TVN. Liaise with the Diabetic CNS for patients on the caseload who require daily insulin administration or if their condition deems intervention from a Diabetic CNS. Ensure all planned visits are allocated before 3pm daily, being part of the 3pm TEAMS call, asking for support with unallocated visits. Have excellent communication skills, be able to manage difficult situations in patients' homes or in other clinical areas. Ensure staff adhere to trust policy with regard to clinical waste management, health and safety at work. Person Specification
Ability to work unsupervised. Able to use electronic patient records. Support Patient and Person-Centered Care. Value achievement through innovation. Proactive in forging relationships. District Nurse SPQ. Current and previous experience
End of life care. Wound care knowledge. Qualified RN for 4 years. Leadership skills from current role. Previous B6 role. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. £39,205 to £47,084 a year per annum inc HCAS.
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The role of the B6 Community Sister/District nurse/charge nurse to manage the day-to-day running of a community nursing team in conjunction with the Team Leader. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the community nursing team are functioning at a high level providing excellent patient care for patients who are on the community nursing team caseload. The post holder will be part of a supportive team of other B6 across the other teams covering the north east of Hampshire providing a 7-day service covering the hours of 8am to 8am. Job responsibilities
The post holder will: Clinically: Undertake holistic assessments of patients new to the community nursing service. Complete assessments such as Purpose T, MUST/MUAC, wound assessments for all patients on the caseload and ensure that all staff members are completing these assessments. Manage chronic wounds such as leg ulcers, pressure ulcers using best practice and NICE guidelines. Manage short term wounds such as surgical wounds. Manage patients with JVAC drains, lantern drains, pig tail drains and flushes when required. Care for PICC lines and chemotherapy disconnections. Full training will be given. Care for other central lines such as Mid lines, portacaths. Full training will be given. Undertake the administration of intravenous antibiotics in the community, bolus or infusion. Manage the caseload of patients requiring daily administration of Insulin, Dalteparin ensuring patients are also taught to self-manage their long term conditions such as Diabetes. Attend pressure ulcer panel to discuss patients who have developed a pressure ulcer whilst in the care of the community nursing team. Share the learning from pressure ulcer panel with the team. Ensure patients on the community nursing caseload have pressure relieving equipment in place or referred to the appropriate service for additional pressure relieving equipment for specialist items. Liaise with the patients GP when needed and communicate effectively with the GP practice to build relationships with our GP colleagues. Be part of the Integrated care team, attending weekly MDT meetings in the absence of a community matron. Be the patients advocate when needed. Refer patients to safeguarding when required, understand the need for safeguarding patients in the community setting. Ensure staff are completing their electronic records in line with trust policy and within the NMC guidelines. To adhere to the NMC standards. Provide excellent end of life care to patients who wish to be cared for in their homes, ensuring communication and care is joined up with other services such as the local hospice. Provide excellent palliative care and symptom management to the patients with a terminal diagnosis, sign posting, referring on to other services such as living well, local hospice, CNS. Liaise with the tissue viability service, complete referrals to the TVN service for patients with chronic leg ulcers, pressure ulcers or other wounds that require the expertise of the TVN. Liaise with the Diabetic CNS for patients on the caseload who require daily insulin administration or if their condition deems intervention from a Diabetic CNS. Ensure all planned visits are allocated before 3pm daily, being part of the 3pm TEAMS call, asking for support with unallocated visits. Have excellent communication skills, be able to manage difficult situations in patients' homes or in other clinical areas. Ensure staff adhere to trust policy with regard to clinical waste management, health and safety at work. Person Specification
Ability to work unsupervised. Able to use electronic patient records. Support Patient and Person-Centered Care. Value achievement through innovation. Proactive in forging relationships. District Nurse SPQ. Current and previous experience
End of life care. Wound care knowledge. Qualified RN for 4 years. Leadership skills from current role. Previous B6 role. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. £39,205 to £47,084 a year per annum inc HCAS.
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