Staff Nurse - Planned Care Community District Nursing

Are you fed‑up and looking for a change? If yes, we at Adult Community Services have the job for you.

• Flexible working
• Dedicated and robust 6 week super‑numerous induction
• Promote and support you to be an autonomous and independent practitioner
• Promote remote working
• Support you to manage your own working day
• Encourage you to be part of new and exciting developments and service improvements
• Empower you to have a voice and bring new ideas and transferable skills to our teams
• Support you to lead on changes to improve and develop our services
• Support with funding for personal development such as degree top up, masters, apprenticeships, stand‑alone modules such as health assessment, Tissue Viability, End of life and many more!
• Technology to help support you to do your job along with support to develop skills in using technology
• Support you in complex case management of patients
• Offer professional advocacy sessions with in‑house professional advocates for one‑to‑one and group sessions
• We have dedicated community practice education facilitators to help support you with competencies and new skills and development
• Post qualification experience of working within a Community setting is required
• Candidates must have a driving licence and own a car they can use for work purposes

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The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.

We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as Good by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards;
The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

• Post qualification experience working within a community setting is required.
• Must hold a driving licence and own a car suitable for work purposes.

• To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group.
• To deliver compassionate person‑centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.
• To provide relevant forms of care with minimal supervision and participate in the supervision, teaching and assessment of unregistered or junior staff and students.
• To play an active part in the continuing development of the ward or department and contribute to the maintenance of an environment conducive to the delivery of high standards of patient care, by promoting good communication and relationships between staff, patients, relatives and visitors.
• To participate in the assessment of patient care needs, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care in accordance with the agreed policies and procedures of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
• Administer prescribed medication and treatment in a timely manner, in accordance with Trust policies and Professional guidelines.
• Take responsibility for groups of patients as required, with minimal supervision from senior staff.
• Deliver evidence based care, and promote the use of evidence based practice, referring to Nursing Clinical Practices accordingly.
• Liaise effectively with the multi‑disciplinary team to ensure timely delivery of care and develop good working relationships.
• Practice within an ethical framework based upon respect for the well‑being and safety of patients and clients.
• Maintain accurate and legible records of care and other documentation in accordance with…