Band 5 Community Staff Nurse - Quinborne - South Locality

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Band 5 Community staff Nurse working with the Quinborne Team within with South locality based at Quinton Lane Care Centre B32 2TR

Providing holistic evidence based care to housebound patients

You will be visiting patients in their own home to deliver all aspects of nursing care, you will therefore need to have a UK driving licence and access to a car to use for work purposes. Please do not apply if these are not in place as we will not be able to offer you an interview.

The post holder will work as part of the community nursing team under the supervision of the Team Manager. He / She will be accountable for the delivery of high quality care to patients within their own homes and the community nursing clinic king with other members of the team to provide care to and promote health/well being and independence for patients on the team caseload, working closely with other partners/stakeholders including GP's, tissue viability and vascular clinics.

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address
• Only apply if you have a full UK driving licence and access to a car to use for work purposes

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Training and development will be provided to support successful candidates in achieving competence in these areas.

The service currently operates between the hours of 8 am to 6pm over 7 days per week. The successful candidate would have to work weekends and bank holidays at times on a rota basis with the other members of the team. This post requires the successful candidates to be able to travel to patient's homes to deliver nursing care, so a full driving license and car is essential.

• Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)
• Mentor and assessor qualification or equivalent
• Evidence of continued professional development relevant to role

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team setting

• Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical practice.
• Excellent communication Analytical skills and a problem solving approach
• IT literate
• Awareness of the complex needs of a multicultural, socially diverse population.
• Effective time management

• As per person spec

• As per person spec

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.