Band 5 Community Staff Nurse Unplanned Team

Vacancy

A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested

Community-based working. Will need driving licence & access to a car.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our High Performing Central Unplanned nursing team. Are you an experienced nurse with core clinical skills including catheterisations, palliative care, syringe drivers, wound care and medication administration? If so, we would love to welcome you to our Central Unplanned Team!

The team is based at Charlotte Rd Health Centre in Stirchley but covers calls in all the Central Locality of Birmingham.

It has a dynamic and innovative approach to Nursing care.

It involves quick responses to patients in their own homes to manage and respond to urgent issues.

We are looking for a highly motivated applicant who is interested in meeting the challenge of working in the community with patients in their own homes. You will be working with a variety of disciplines within the multidisciplinary team to achieve the best outcomes for patients to ensure their independence and wellbeing.

Responding quickly to patients with a variety of health needs in line with 2 hour UCR response for palliative and catheterised patients.

This involves problem solving, liaising with the unplanned team and the multi-disciplinary teams and providing nursing care to achieve best outcomes for patients.

Full driving licence and access to a car.

Experience in community nursing with core clinical skills including catheterisations, palliative care, syringe drivers, wound care and medication administration.

Highly mobile and able to work across the Central Locality of Birmingham.

• 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

The service operates between the hours of 8 am to 6 pm over 7 days per week and the working pattern for the successful candidate will include weekend working and bank holiday periods.

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 and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab 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.

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