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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join the South East Community Nursing Team on a permanent basis in the role of a Caseload Holder, providing urgent and planned care to patients living within their own homes in the community. 

The South east Community Nursing Team is a proactive, supportive, forward thinking team, who constantly strive for the delivery of excellent patient care and modern ways of working. 

The multidisciplinary teams provide nursing and therapy services offering an alternative to hospital admission, supporting timely discharge. We enable our patients to realise their potential independence in their most appropriate place of care.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for patient assessment and the planning, implementation and evaluation of individual care plans, in collaboration with the patient and wider multidisciplinary team, using Nurse Prescribing as appropriate to needs.
• To assist the clinical services manager and team leader in promoting and contributing to the delivery of modern, patient focussed services.
• To facilitate short and long term nursing care in the community, being responsive to patient need, reviewing this with the team on a regular basis.
• To triage referrals and requests for nursing care, responding appropriately and referring to the team leader where appropriate for senior guidance.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.