registered nurse Farnborough, Hampshire, South East England, England
Job description
Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge? Would you like to develop a wide range of nursing skills in a community setting?
We are excited to offer a full time or part time post for Band 5 Registered Nurses (RN Adult) or student nurse who is due to qualify shortly. We are looking for dynamic, enthusiastic and motivated individuals to expand our workforce in a busy and well established community team within the north east of hants - covering the Farnborough, Fleet, Aldershot and Yateley areas.
Preceptorship and full training is available for applicants, along with support from the team and senior staff within the community nursing service.
Our community nurses benefit from having continual opportunities to develop an excellent skillset and become autonomous practitioners whilst working as part of a team delivering high quality, holistic care to patients in their own homes.
Must be a car driver with a U.K full driving licence and access to avehicleis essential for role.
Mileage expenses claimable via the trust expenses system.
To give skilled nursing care to patients on the caseload based on principles of best practice and clinical evidence.
Under the supervision of the DN team lead and community nursing sister take develop your skills for the holistic health care needs assessment including care planning, evaluation and appropriate implementation of health care and ensuring continuity of care following referrals from acute care, GP’s, carers, and other agencies.
To identify and record new problems and other relevant information reporting back to the B6 asappropriate.
Maintain accurate electronic records that are accurate, comprehensive, and contemporaneous in accordance with the trust and NMC guidelines.
(Full training will be giving using electronic records)
Liaise and complete referrals where appropriate to other services, agencies. Liaise with patient’s GP’s, and urgent community response teams.
Provide information and support to patients, their relatives and other carers that promotes and optimises positive health.
To develop and utilise specialist community nursing skills such as setting a syringe driver up for a patient requiring medication due to having end of life care, leg ulcer and doppler assessment,
complex wound management – such as pressure ulcers, surgical wounds. (Full training will be given)
Previous competencies reviewed by our Community Practice Development Nurse.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for more information regarding the post.
Informal visits are welcome
