Grade 4 – Community Staff Nurse

Role details

We are currently recruiting for Community Staff Nurses (CSN) to join our District Nursing Teams

Our Community Staff Nurses have the courage to do things differently and strive to provide innovation and new levels of care to the community.

Key Accountabilities:

You will demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the guidelines of the NMC and Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice and apply these to maintain trust and credibility with patients, carers and colleagues.

The post holder will support the clinical manager in the provision of professional leadership to department or a community team making a significant contribution to a specialty service through developing effective leadership skills and sharing clinical knowledge and experience to improve nursing practice make significant contribution to developing a philosophy of care to create and maintain a constructive working atmosphere and learning environment.

You will maintain a professional portfolio which demonstrates the continuing acquisition of skills, knowledge, attitudes, understanding and achievements.

The successful candidate will support the manager to define, set and maintain appropriate clinical standards and will lead in planning the overall organisation of client care, directing the care team when necessary in the delivery of high quality care programmes within the service area. You will demonstrate enhanced nursing practice and will act as a role model in terms of own care delivery by acquiring knowledge and skills to support an evidence based client centred service supported by the multi-disciplinary team, consistently providing high quality advice to patients/carers/colleagues.

You will support the manager in auditing the effectiveness of complaints procedure, ensuring complaints are dealt with promptly and effectively, and that proper investigations are carried out and action taken to reduce incidence. It is expected that you will have the ability to maintain accurate patient documentation and consistently produce high quality client information using a range of IT skills as appropriate.

We offer a pension scheme, clinical and safeguarding supervision, ongoing training and continued personal and professional development – with a competitive salary and benefits package.
It is not all about work at FNHC ! We have regular social events throughout the year and an annual awards ceremony to celebrate and recognise the achievements, commitments and hard work of team members. We have a “Wellbeing” Committee and trained StRaW buddies to give support for those times when – you just need someone to talk things through with. We listen to our staff and act on suggestions/feedback from our staff surveys and meetings to continually evolve and improve.

If you are ready for a new and exciting challenge please apply by completing the online application form and attach an updated CV.

Car owner is essential

For an informal discussion about this role contact Jo Champion, Deputy Operational Lead, Adult Services on 01534 497600