Job summary
Employer heading
Community Band 5 Staff Nurse, Rapid Response
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for level 1 (adult) registered nurse to become part of rapid response a 24 hours, 7 days a week team, where we offer nursing interventions to patients living in their own homes. We work in an integrated way with health and care providers to ensure that care is joined up and that whenever we can, we strive to care for acutely unwell patients at home, helping them to maintain independence and ensuring that high quality care is delivered in an efficient and holistic manner.
We are working hard to continually improve our outcomes for patients and our experience for staff in delivering care.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
We would love to hear from you if you can –
- Demonstrate your passion and ability to assess, plan, provide and evaluate evidence based nursing care for patients experiencing a wide range of conditions.
- Support our patients and work with people in an asset-based way that really enables them to live their optimum life, being self-caring and independent with their health needs where possible.
- Work collaboratively, efficiently and creatively with multi professional colleagues and partners with a focus on helping patients to avoid hospital admissions and where they do need a hospital stay facilitating timely and well supported discharge back home.
- Referrals received from professional clinicians, e.g. ambulance services, GP's, Hospital staff.
- Providing IV antibiotics, line care, wound care, IM/SC injections, Peg Feeds, Venepuncture, Cannulation, Palliative care , as well as all general nursing skills.
- Future development to work towards physical assessment qualification.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rate s
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Why choose East Staffordshire as a place to work?
Because we are an innovative, integrated Community service covering the East Staffordshire area including the Burton Town area, Uttoxeter and the surrounding Villages. We work closely across the Nursing teams, AHP’s including Podiatry, Physio, Falls Team, Stroke and Rehab team including our out of hours service, to ensure that our patients are at the centre of the care provided. We collaboratively deliver our care across all the professions, recognising the importance for patient centred approach, working together across all the nursing and therapy teams
We pride ourselves on our strong leadership, innovation, prevention and implementation of the care within the living model in all our patient care. We ensure that all of MPFT’s values and behaviours are entwined and embedded within our staff, teams and our patient centred care. We support the development and learning of all staff, having great links with our local universities, while also priding ourselves on growing our own staff and the leaders of the future
If you are interested in joining our innovative workforce, then choose East Staffs for the next chapter in your career
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree in nursing or equivalent
- • Registration with NMC
- • Mentorship qualification (998-997).
Desirable criteria
- • Working towards Mentorship qualification (998-997)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Relevant experience/placements to the role including assessment and management of long term conditions, palliative care conditions and wound care
- • Ability to manage time and caseload effectively
- • Supporting service users, families and carers in dealing with people with nursing needs
- • Working in a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in the delivery of healthcare
- • Relevant placements including surgical, medical, palliative care
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Christine Atton
- Job title
- Operational Lead - Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971904899
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