Community Staff Nurse.

Overview

An opportunity has become available to join the Ulverston District Nurses as a registered nurse. This is a close and supportive team that pride themselves on delivering a high standard of person centre care to the residents of Dalton and surrounding villages.

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic team player that shares the same passion and drive to care for people in their own homes to a high standard.

The post is 22.5 hours a week over 3 days and includes weekends and bank holidays. The post will also include working evenings and potential nights as part of their hours in the Furness out of hours team over a 7 day week, 365 days a year.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a registered Nurse within Community Services, accountable for providing evidence based, holistic nursing care of patients.

You will be expected to support the Sister/Team Leader in leading the team supervising, directing staff and delegating workload according to skills of the staff within the team.

The Ulverston team is a small team consisting of full and part time nurses and a health care support worker.  Ran day to day by the Assistant Team leads and supported by the Team Lead.

Working for our organisation

We operate from three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered general nurse.
• Final year Nursing student.

Desirable criteria

• Supporting learners in practice/mentorship qualification.
• V150 prescriber.
• Academic palliative care course.
• Academic wound care course.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Palliative care.
• Wound care.
• Communication skills verbal/non-verbal.
• Time management.
• IT systems.
• Documentation.
• Delegation.
• Supervision of junior staff.

Desirable criteria

• Continence care.
• Advanced communication / difficult situations.
• Counselling.
• Work allocation.
• Shift leadership experience.

Clinical skills

Essential criteria

• Wound assessment and product choice.
• Venepuncture.
• Syringe driver use.
• Female/male/SP catheter.
• Holistic assessment.

Desirable criteria

• Compression therapy.

Personal attributes

Essential criteria

• Empathetic
• Self-motivated.
• Teamwork.
• Outgoing/friendly.
• Self-awareness.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of lone working.
• Experience of working in patients’ own homes.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL.

The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive .

The trust operates a No Smoking Policy.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.

We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert

If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, (formally CRB) a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard clearance  and additional to this a £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts.

Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract, will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.